With the summer heat also come bare arms just begging for a bracelet with a hint of relaxed glamour. The wrap bracelet in the ladder stitch meets all that.
Challenge:
- Regular and symmetrical weaving.
Supplies for the wrap bracelet :
- 6x6 mm beads
- 1,5 mm leather cord
- S-lon weaving cord # 18
- a 1,5 to 2 cm button
- needles and jewelry glue
- scissors, flush cutter and a beading surface
- optionally beeswax
Instructions for wrap bracelet in ladder stitch:
- two wraps take about 1,20 meter of leather cord or 60 cm for a one wrap bracelet
- cut the leather with your flush cutter
- fold the leather cord in two, thread the button and pull it to the center
- make an simple overhand knot with the doubled leather cord
- cut off about 2,75 meters of S-lon cord; you want to have enough weaving cord to finish the bracelet in one go
- pass the S-lon cord with a needle through a part of the leather knot and pull the cord through up to halfway
- place the S-lon cords on the outside and keep both pieces of leather in the middle
Start braiding:
- *pass the left weaving cord over the left leather cord and then underneath the right leather cord
- next, pass the right weaving cord over the right leather cord and underneath the left leather cord
- tighten up the weaving cords**, you just crossed two S-lon cords
- while repeating the movement from * till ** three or four times, you will be creating a small piece in herringbone
- tighten by pulling the weaving cords towards the base and secure them with a simple overhand knot
- to work more easily, pass the weaving cords through some beeswax
- wrap each weaving cord twice around its matching leather cord,
- thus the left weaving cord around the left leather cord and the right weaving cord around the right leather cord
- string a 6 mm bead on the right weaving cord
- * pass the left weaving cord through the other side of the beads, thus in the opposite direction
- you just crossed the two weaving cords in the bead
- now go with each weaving cord underneath its leather cord and then upwards,
- thus right below right and then upwards
- left below left and then upwards**
- string another 6 mm bead on the right weaving cord and repeat from * till **
SEE - part 2