How to Thread Beads for Flower Bracelets

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Rachel for Expert Village. Okay now I'm going to show you how to make a flower bracelet. What we do is take fishing line, two kinds of beads either smaller ones or bigger ones. A clasp and scissors. What we do is we are going to measure first the size we want. First we put it around our hand and this is the size that I want. Not too small, and I am going to do the length times four and this time we are not going to do the clasp on before, we are going to start working with the string right away. So I have the lengths of the string and we are going to start working. What we do first is we take seven purple beads, it's easier to take it straight from the plate or table you're working on and hold it in your hand. When they are that size you can see the string is like a needle strong enough to make the job of a needle. I'm going to take seven purple beads and now I'm going to go with the string and go through the first three. Go back with the string to the first three and now I'm just going to pull it together and create a little ring, this ring moves, if you open it it's movable. So I'm going to move it to the other side. Now I'm going to take seven beads from another kind, I chose silver beads. I'm going to take seven beads again. For this bracelet you will need about 70 beads from each kind which means 10 flower rings from each size. So I'm going to do the same thing again and take the first three and pull this string. See they are far away but it is movable we are going to put them together. Before we put the clasp in we are going to make sure that all of the beads are nicely put together. I'm going to show you one more time. Now we are going to put seven more of the purple ones. The pattern is seven purple and seven silver ones. And then just going to show you one more before we finish with the bracelet. Again you're going to go through the first three with the string. Each group of course contains seven beads you can use different beads for each different flower, that's fine too. But the pattern I chose was a purple, purple and silver. And you continue until we get the wanted length."