How To Make A Cupchain Tennis Bracelet | TAKE A MAKE BREAK | Jewellery making tutorial

Hello all you lovely crafters, today Sarah Millsop has a special treat for you, and she will show you how to make this beautiful Take A Make Break cupchain tennis bracelet. In this tutorial Sarah will show you how to embellish around the lovely Bonny™cupchain using seed beads, she also shows you a useful technique of how to finish/attach a new thread to your design.

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Relax and let’s stitch

1:51 Cut an arm span of thread and thread your needle on
2:02 Thread on 8 size 11/0 seed beads
2:18 Move them towards the end of your thread and leave a 15cm tail
2:17 Go back through the seed beads to create a square
2:44 Go through the first two seed beads, pull tight
3:10 Go through two seed beads at the side of your square
3:19 Go through the top part of the square, keep your tension loose
3:44 Pick up 6 size 11/0 seed beads
3:49 Go through the two seed beads that you have just exited from, pull tightly
4:50 Go along the side of the square and repeat until you have reached your desired length
8:03 Add in your cupchain. Thread underneath the cupchain and up/over the chain and go through the two seed beads. Pull to tighten
9:13 Thread through the two side seed beads and repeat the above step until you have reached the end of your bracelet.
12:42 Repeat the other side of the bracelet to neaten it up
13:33 Fill the gaps with the other colour of size 11/0 seed beads and work through your bracelet
14:12 Once you reach the end of your bracelet, cut the cupchain.
15:07 To attach the clasp, pick up two seed beads, a clasp and two more seed beads
15:40 Go through the original top two beads in the square, pull tightly
15:44 Secure in place two to three times
16:39 Pass your needle all the way down your bracelet to the other end
17:59 Attach your jumpring in the same way as your clasp

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