How To Make This STUNNING Banglet - EASY & FUN!

Look at these gorgeous banglets, my friends. Copper wire, a few seed beads and a beautiful double row bangle. Aren't they beautiful? So let's have a look at how to make them today. So my friends, let's get going and have a look at how to make these little cute banglets. I love a banglet, as you probably well know, and I love my seed beads. Again, as you probably well know. So we'll make another one to match this one, I think. This one I've used 6-0s, this one I've used 5-0s. You can just see the very subtle difference in between the sizes of the beads. But you can use rounds, you can use whatever you want. You can use rondelles, sparkly rondelles, whatever you choose, okay? Okay. These are just ideas for you, don't forget. So, to start with the bracelet. I've made mine so that they are a bangle here but you can make it into you know a longer just you know a longer bangle part and a shorter sort of bracelet part it's entirely up to you I like these sort of that sit around here entirely up to you so I'm just going to give you the measurements of the thing of you know of this particular one you're going to need I'm going to need to take some 16 gauge wire that's 1.25 millimeter and you're going to need two pieces of 20 centimeters which is just short of eight inches so eight inches would also be alternatively be very very fine for this. So here I've obviously I've made a silver one so we're going to be making this and then obviously you bend it around a bangle mandrel so for this particular length which is the same as The length of the... The length of the beaded section is about five inches, which is about 13 centimetres, and the length of the wire that you need is 20 centimetres, okay, 20 centimetres. So you're going to need to bring in your 24 gauge wire, American wire gauge, and that's 0.56 in metric. I'm going to use the spool because it's much, much easier to do this off the spool, all right, and I'm going to be using 6-0 beads but don't forget, like I say, You can use, sorry, 5-0 beads. You can use 6-0s, use anything you like. A few of those out onto my table. I'll shift those out of the way and then. All right, so let's get going. So what we're going to do is we're going to start with three little wraps around one and then three wraps around both. Take your first wire and just measure along. Now what I've done is I've used the 20 centimetres And I've started around three centimetres in from each side, give or take. Probably more like four. So if you start three centimetres in, it'll give you about 14 centimetres of wrap in the middle. So you can mark it or indeed you can just start the way you can just start. So I'm just going to put three wraps around this. And then, as always, the plier. Happy, excuse this part of my finger here. If you've been with me long enough, you know I'm a bit of a picker. So I've been picking a little bit recently. Okay, three centimetres in. Now what I would suggest you do is to take a bead, put it on your second wire so that you have space. It gives you like a guide. You see how that opens up as you put it on. So if you start wrapping here, it's going to be too tight. Pop your bead on. Gives you an idea of how much space you need and then wrap around three times. You have your first bead in place. Now each time you wrap, I'll show you, actually let me show you underneath. Each time you wrap the front side, can you see how we've got these these wires that go diagonal? They're straight here. You need to keep them as straight as you can on the front and I'll show you what I mean. So here we have our bead. The first thing you need to do, pull that at an angle, push your bead up, The first couple of wraps are a little difficult at times, so essentially you've got three wraps in between each. See that? We've got our first bead on, three wraps on either side. So we'll pop another bead on, but this time on the bottom wire. It's a nice alternate beaded wrap. Put your next bead on. Pull out the ones that are a little small or, you know, sometimes you'll get one, won't you, that's not quite the same shape or size. What we want to do again is just to pull this at an angle. So that when we wrap it, We hold our bead, we're already in place for a straightish wrap. One, you see that? So we'll just push that up. And as you can see here, I'm just going to pop that into place, tighten that up. And you can see from behind, I've started with the diagonal wraps underneath. All right, so we pull it to one side again. You see I've pulled it onto an angle, put the next bead on, push it up. So we're already in place now. Bring that wire. For the right, obviously I'm left, I'm right-handed. So, you know, just reverse what I'm doing if you're left-handed and then times. So from here, I'm just going to twist because I've got something to hold on to, which is easier. Squidge, pull that to one side. You see how I pulled it to one side? It just makes sure that you get as, you know, as straight wraps as possible here at the front and it sets it into place for the next bead. Put the next bead on. All the time, holding that bead in place, And at the back, you will be wrapping over the top of this bead, too. And then if you see that that bit there is just a little bit, squeeze it into place. So as you'll see, you will get a slight touch of an angle there. But that doesn't bother me in the slightest, squeeze it into place if you have to. There we are. So as you can see on these, actually, you know, you can't tell. But this is just the way I worked it out. As I was sitting down, doing something with my hands just to occupy myself. Probably nothing new. But it's fun just to sit down and have a play with some wire and some beads isn't it. Ringy wire and ready for three wraps. Your next bead on the bottom and that's pretty much it all the way along. Nice and easy, nice and simple, really relaxing, super super way to put things into place. You find that you've, you know, got a little bit of wire that doesn't look particularly straight, doesn't matter. Although if you're like me and I'm a little bit of a perfectionist, you know, it's nice to have things exact, but hey-ho, who cares in this crazy world? Who actually cares? As long as you're enjoying yourself. Another bead on the top, angle your wire so that you're ready in place for the next wrap. All right, so I'll just do one more on the camera. You see how pretty that looks? I just think they're super, I mean, I'm a big fan of tennis bracelets actually. I think they're really, really pretty. It's like a line bracelet, I guess you could call it, you know, a beaded line bracelet Okay, so you go all the way along. You've started about three and a half centimetres, finish with about three and a half centimetres to go. If you want to mark these lengths with your sharpie you can do, but essentially I think I've got 26 beads along mine. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 28 beads I've got and these are five O's. Okay so I'll meet you, I'll meet you back when we've got this bit done. And we are back. So hopefully you've got something that looks a little bit like this. So I'm just going to put this very last bead on. Like I say I've done 28 which makes that kind of shape. If you wanted to do 30 or 32 it would just make a little bit of a you know a bangle with more beads on it if that makes sense. Yeah so it's up to you. Don't forget these are always just ideas for you. Right. Lovely. So if you're very happy with how all of this looks, you know, you can give it a bit of a fettle. I'm quite happy with that. So because I've started with three wraps on this bottom wire, I'm going to finish with three wraps on the top. Just because of one, two, I'm sure my dog is making sounds if you can hear him. So just chip, you know, snip our wire off there and just give that. a burnish so that there's no sharp edges on both sides. Snip that bit off of course as or always mind your eyes, mind your eyes and then do the same. I hope you enjoy making lots of these in lots and lots of different colours, I think they're really sweet. I like a little, you know, a sort of a delicate bangle. I think it would probably go quite well. I don't know if you saw The other bangle. tutorial that I did. I think they'll probably go quite well with that one, or all the different bangles that you can make, you know, not just necessarily mine. There's lots and lots of wonderful tutorials on this wonderful platform. Right, so what we want to do now is to put some loops on the ends. Now, you can choose to do this how you like. You can put a scroll on either side if you wanted to, or you could be really plain and simple like me and bend them outwards or inwards. Entirely up to you. So for this one, I'm going to do them inwards. Chop off your ends. So, you know, if you're using the first mandrel on your six-step bail making plier, mine is a two to nine. I think you need just over a centimetre. I do it by eye these days. Better to have too much than not enough, in my opinion. In all things. In all things, including chocolate. Cake's good. So I'm using my first mandrel. I'm just going to bend these guys inwards. That's all you need, that's it, all you need. I love simplicity, which is a good job really because I'm quite a learner at this kind of wire bending thing and simplicity is good when you are just learning, isn't it? By no means an accomplished wire bender. Tighten those two in line with each other and do the same thing here. So that's essentially what you have, okay? So next thing you want to do is just to literally bend it around something, so. So your bangle mandrel, which is what I will be doing when I find it. Oh, there it is. I'm just going to pop that around my bangle mandrel. Use anything you like around the house. You know, as long as it's, you're careful and, you know, you don't break anything or indeed yourself, use what you like. So here we have our little bangle. Straighten things if you need to. I do here. That's absolutely fine. Straighten things up a little bit. Bend these down turning it into a bangle shape. I love banglets because I like to wear a bangle but you know when you hit a bangle on the table and on the desk certainly if you're at work yeah so if you put I've got 28 but if you put 32 you could literally just have a little clasp in between without the jump rings if you wanted to. I'm just going to do that just for the sake For the sake of doing it, I'm using 4mm jump rings. So you can essentially make, again, like I've said before, these kind of things are really good for craft shows because you can make it prescriptive, you know, certainly to fit the size of the person who wants to buy the bangle. So, you know, you could have a few of them and have a little bit of chain. It's kind of just very simple jump ring chain ready. Have your chains ready. And then if somebody wants to buy it and it's either too small or too big, if you've got your tools with you, then you can quite easily Make, you know, a bespoke size, which is good, isn't it? I'll come back to you in a second and we'll do the clasp. Let's do a cute little S-clasp. I'm only literally going to make a very simple S-clasp. If you're wanting to learn how to make clasps, I have a really simple beginner-friendly one that I'll put up here somewhere. But there's loads of people on this wonderful platform that can show you how to make amazing clasps. So six centimetres of 1.25, that's 16 gauge wire. It always gets so bitty, this base. It's annoying, okay? All you do is pop a little loop, grab the end of your pliers, pop a little loop on one end, give it squish together. In the opposite direction, do the same thing on the other side. I hear my dog snoring. Snorey boy. There we are. So we have one each going in a different direction. I'm just going to use the fifth step on my plier, two to nine increment plier. Just literally bend it around, thus. And then do the same thing in the opposite direction, which gives you a nice fat. Now, at this point, I would give it a hammer, you know, just to give it some stability and then pop it on one side of your bangle. I'm not going to do the hammering on the camera because you don't need to see that. Squish that and then literally, you know, you've seen S-clasp before, pretty little S-clasp, which makes it so that you can pop your bangle on. Yeah, and then clip it on at the other side. So you see the different types of clasps that we can use. But isn't that pretty? How gorgeous are those? I really, really enjoy making these. And I'm going to be doing this one, finishing this one off in the silver, which I think will be pretty. Gorgeous, really delicate line bracelets. So I hope you enjoy making these. Let me know in the comments how you get along, my friends, and I'll see you in the next one. Take care.