Button Bracelet Craft
Bracelets made with buttons are easy and fun to make. Use vintage buttons, novelty buttons, flat buttons with two or four holes or shank buttons. Make them using stretch cord or lengths of wire.
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Shank-Button Bracelets
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Shank buttons do not have holes all the way through. Instead, they have a bump in the middle of the back with a hole to secure it to fabric with thread. String shank buttons on elastic cord and either tie or hand-sew closed. Elastic cord should be long enough to stretch over the hand, but not fall off easily when it goes back into shape. Elastic cord comes in many colors including black and white.
Novelty-Button Bracelets
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Novelty buttons come in shapes including animals, musical instruments, people, flowers, insects, trees and many other things. Most are plastic with a shank back. Make a bracelet with all jungle animals, farm animals, instruments of the orchestra or bees and flowers. Novelty buttons are more expensive than others, so alternate with inexpensive beads.
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Vintage-Button Bracelets
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A vintage bracelet made of old buttons and memory wire is a beautiful fashion statement. String a large shank or holed vintage button to the middle of a wire that is 2 inches bigger than the wrist. Memory wire is thin metal wire that snaps back into a coil. It wraps around the wrist and holds on. Start at one end and string on other buttons or beads ending with an end bead to hold everything together. End beads only have a hole on one side and screw on the wire to keep everything from falling off. String the other side and apply another end bead.
Buttons-with-Holes Bracelet
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Cut about 14 inches of clear elastic cord. Place a binder clamp, found at office supply stores, about 3 inches from the end of the cord. This keeps buttons on the cord from falling off. Thread the cord through one button hole from the back and back through the other hole from the front. If a button has four holes, go through 2 holes diagonally. Continue to string more buttons until 3 inches of plain cord remains. Tie the ends in a knot to make a circle.
Sewn-Button Bracelet
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Use thick elastic ribbon and sew buttons to it using embroidery thread and a needle. Combine with beads if desired.
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