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Elegant Netted Bracelet Debor ah Meyer
Combine ladder-stitched cube bands with simple bugle and seed bead netting and toss in a few
crystals for sparkle to create a fun bracelet. You re sure to get a lot of attention when you wear it!
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 FINISHED SIZE: 11D 4" X 7"
Tip
Materials To adjust the length of the bracelet, add or
FireLine 6 8 lb beading thread
1 g gold/bronze iris size 11° seed beads decrease the number of cubes in the base
G-S Hypo Cement
160 cream opaque 1D 4" hex-cut bugle beads stacks.
54 transparent tan AB 4mm cubes
Tools
5 padparadscha 5mm crystal bicones
Size 12 beading needle
1 copper 12mm button with shank
Scissors
1: Ladder base. Use 5' of thread and cubes to 1 seed bead, and 1 bugle, skip the next
Base A
work a 3-bead ladder 9 beads long (Figure 1). 3 beads of the previous row, and pass
Knot and glue to secure. Hide the thread ends through the next seed bead in Row 2; repeat
inside the beads and trim close to the work. twice. String 1 bugle, 1 seed bead, 1 crystal,
Repeat for a second two ladder-stitched base. 1 seed bead, and 1 bugle, skip the next
5 beads of the previous row, and pass
through the next seed bead.
b
String 1 bugle, 1 seed bead, and 1 bugle,
skip the next 3 beads of the previous row,
Figure 2
and pass through the next seed bead in Row
2; repeat twice. String 1 bugle and pass
through the cubes of the third stack in Base
Figure 1
B. Pass back through the next 2 cubes of the
fourth stack and the next cube of the third
2: Netting. Secure 9' of thread and exit from stack (Figure 3a).
the first stack on Base A, leaving an 8" tail. Row 4: Repeat Row 2. On the last stitch, pass
Work bugle beads and seed beads with a center through the cubes of the third stack in Base
band of crystals: A. Pass back through the next 2 beads of the
Row 1: String 1 bugle and 1 seed bead eight fourth stack and exit the next bead of the
times. String 1 crystal and 1 seed bead. fifth stack (Figure 3b).
String 1 bugle and 1 seed bead eight times. Rows 5 10: Repeat Rows 3 and 4 three
Pass through the cubes of the first stack on times, anchoring the netting in the fifth,
Base B. Pass back through the next 2 cubes seventh, and ninth Base A and B cube
in the second stack and the last bead in the stacks respectively.
first stack (Figure 2a).
Row 2: String 1 bugle, 1 seed bead, and 3: Closure.
1 bugle, skip the next 3 beads of the previ- Loop: Pass back through the last row of netting
ous row, and pass through the next seed and weave through cubes to exit the fifth
bead; repeat twice. String 1 bugle, 1 seed stack of Base B. String 30 seed beads and
bead, 1 bugle, and 1 seed bead; pass through pass back through the first 2 beads, forming
the crystal. String 1 seed bead, 1 bugle, 1 seed a circle. Weave through cubes and through
bead, and 1 bugle, skip the next 4 beads of the loop again, following Figure 4. Tie a
the previous row, and pass through the next knot, dab the knot with glue, pass through
seed bead. String 1 bugle, 1 seed bead, and several cubes, and pull the thread to hide the
1 bugle, skip the next 3 beads of the previous knot in a cube. Trim close to the work.
row, and pass through the next seed bead; Button: Thread a needle onto the tail. Pass
repeat three times, passing through the first through cubes on Base A to exit from the
stack of Base A on the last stitch. Pass back center cube in the fifth stack. String the but-
through 2 cubes in the second stack and the ton and pass through the cube. Repeat the
Base B
next bead of the third stack (Figure 2b). The thread path to secure. Tie a knot, dab the
cube bases should be linked by a series of knot with glue, pass through several beads,
8 diamond shapes with a crystal in the middle. and pull the thread to hide the knot. Trim
a
Row 3: String 1 bugle and pass through the close to the work (Figure 5). &'
first seed bead in Row 2. String 1 bugle,
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Base A
b
Figure 3
Figure 4
Figure 5
Base B
a
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