Tila Bead Memory Wire Bracelets
Designed by Katie Hacker
Use special, two-hole Tila Beads in a repeating pattern to make simple, beautiful memory wire bracelets.
Materials:
Mikuki
3g #DB86 Delica Beads
7g #TL401FR Tila Beads
6 #3957 baroque pearls
Beadalon
large bracelet-size Beadalon memory wire
6 silver medium ball head pins
2 silver 6mm jump rings
memory wire shears
round-nose pliers
chain-nose pliers
wire cutters
1. Use memory wire shears to cut two single-loop lengths of memory wire with the ends overlapping.
2. Arrange the wires so they're side-by-side and coiling in the same direction, then use round-nose pliers to make a loop at the end of each wire.
3. Hold the wires together and pass the ends through corresponding holes on a single Tila Bead.
4. Pass each wire through three Delica Beads.
5. Repeat Steps 3-4 until there is 3/8" of wire showing at the end of the bracelet.
6. Use round-nose pliers to turn a loop at the end of each wire.
7. String a baroque pearl onto each head pin and make a wrapped loop on each.
8. String three beaded pins onto a jump ring and attach it to both loops at the end of the bracelet.
9. Repeat Step 8 for the other end of the bracelet.
Make a color-blocked wrap bracelet using two wires that are three loops long. Alternate between Delica seed bead sections that are 5-beads (purple) and 3-beads (brown).
This sample uses oval-shaped memory wire for a closer fitting bracelet, but you can use the same technique with any style of memory wire.
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