Tips for Making Handcrafted Crystal Bracelets

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Ella Seltzer for Expert Village. Now I'm going to show you how to measure your beads so they are equi-distance so you don't have any inconsistencies on your bracelet. You're just going to take your crimp bead and your chain and you're going to put it along your ruler so we want to have these two centimeters apart. So here we have it, two centimeters. Then we just crimp the bead on the chain like so. So now we're just going to continue adding crimp bead, crystal, crimp bead. Two centimeters apart, there we are, the second one. Crimp it again. Measure it again. And you're going to keep going like this until you have six beads on your chain. Look, I said six beads, the truth is with bracelets, it depends on your wrist length. For some people five would be fine, you have to basically, as you're making a piece of jewelry, keep trying it on around you unless you know exactly the length you want it and you've measured it up against another piece of jewelry, until it's done."