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Making Stretchy Bracelets

Stretchy bracelets are easy to make and fun to wear, especially when you mix metal sliders with beads. Whip up a few bracelets tonight and stack them up for a look that's right on trend!

For the purple double-strand bracelet:
4 antique brass 20x30mm bead gallery® sliders
8 glass amethyst swirl 5x8mm bead gallery® faceted rondelles
16 antique brass 6mm bead gallery® rounds
satin gold .8mm Beadalon® Elasticity™ cord
2 gold Beadalon® Elasticity™ crimp tubes
Mighty Crimping Tool
Beading Scissors

1. Cut two pieces of Elasticity cord that are 10” long.
2. Pass a cord through one set of holes on the back of a slider.
3. Pass each cord through: 6m brass, spacer, amethyst, spacer, 6mm brass.
4. Repeat the beading pattern until all of the beads are strung.
5. Pass each cord through a corresponding (empty) hole on the back of the first slider.
6. String a crimp tube onto one end of each cord.
7. Pass the other end of the corresponding cords through the opposite sides of the crimps so the crimp is hidden behind a slider.
8. Use a Mighty Crimping Tool to crimp the crimp tubes.
9. Cut off any extra cording.

Tips:
To make a double-strand slider bracelet using other beads, measure the sliders to determine how many beads you'll need to string between them to make a bracelet the desired length. Placing two 4mm rounds, two spacer disks and one 8mm round between each 1-1/4” slider makes a bracelet that's about 7-1/2”.

Always use the largest stringing material that will fit through the smallest bead holes. Elasticity™ cord comes in three diameters: .5mm, .8mm and 1mm and several colors – choose the one that best suits your project.

Special crimp tubes make it easy to connect the ends of Elasticity cord. Use a Mighty Crimping tool to close the crimps. Alternatively, you can tie the ends together in surgeon's knots (like a square knot but with an extra pass through the loop.) Add a drop of Beadalon bead stringing glue or GS HypoCement to Elasticity knots.

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