FREE BEADING TUTORIAL: Petite Buds Bracelet

Petite Buds Bracelet

Free Beading Tutorial

This beading pattern was first published in Bead&Button Magazine, April Issue 2019. Now it is available as free tutorial on my website. 

An original BeadedTreasury Design (© 2019 Iulia Postica. All rights reserved). This pattern is for personal use and small group teaching. It cannot be sold, republished (online and off-line), redistributed, translated without permission, or edited in any way – in part or in whole. Please always credit me as a designer. Thank you!

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Techniques

Bead weaving

Project Level

Advanced beginner to Intermediate

Materials (see bellow for Finished Size)

Green variation

42 pastel lime 5x3.5mm Czech glass Pinch beads

1.2 gr. transparent rainbow frosted lime green 8/0 Japanese seed beads (Toho 164F)

2.1 gr. permanent finish matte galvanized aluminum size 8/0 Demi Round beads (Toho PF 558F)

1.9 gr. gold-lustered dark antique bronze size 11/0 Demi Round beads (Toho 422)

One 8mm silver tone magnetic clasp

One G thread, dark beige

Gold brown variation

42 metallic mix 5x3.5mm Czech glass Pinch beads

1.2 gr. dark bronze 8/0 Japanese seed beads (Toho 222)

2.1 gr. gold lined rainbow crystal size 8/0 Demi Round beads (Toho 994)

1.9 gr. permanent finish galvanized rose gold size 11/0 Demi Round beads (Toho PF551)

One 8mm gold tone magnetic clasp

One G thread, mauve

Tools

Size 11 beading needle

Scissors

Finished Size

Length – 17 cm (6.7 inches)

Width – 1.7 cm (0.7 inches)

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INSTRUCTION

Step 1. Loop for the magnetic clasp.

Cut a comfortable long piece of thread and thread the needle. Pick one half of the magnetic clasp and thirteen 11/0 Demi Round beads. Slide the beads down the thread leaving about 10 cm (4 inches) of tail. 

Take the needle once again through all strung beads. Pull the thread tight and form a circle of beads. 

Tie the two threads with two square knots.  

Step 3.

Take the needle up through eight Demi Round beads  following the white thread in the image above. 

Step 4. Making the first beaded unit.

Pick two 11/0 Demi Round beads, one 8/0 seed bead, seven 11/0 Demi Round beads, one 8/0 seed bead, seven 11/0 Demi Round beads, one 8/0 seed bead, two 11/0 Demi Round beads and go with the needle through the central three 11/0 Demi Round beads added in the previous step. 

Take the needle through all beads strung and exit from the first added 8/0 seed bead on the right.

Step 5.

Pick one Pinch bead and go with the needle through the next 8/0 seed bead added in the previous step. 

Add two more Pinch beads to complete the round.  

Step 6.

Go with the needle through the next Pinch bead, 8/0 seed bead, Pinch bead, 8/0 seed bead, Pinch bead, 8/0 seed bead and exit from the first added Pinch bead in the previous step.

Step 7.

Pick two 8/0 Demi Round beads and take the needle through the next Pinch bead. 

Add two more groups of two 8/0 Demi Round beads as explained above and exit in the end from the first added Demi Round bead in this step.

Step 8.

Pick one 8/0 Demi Round bead, one 11/0 Demi Round bead, one 8/0 Demi Round bead and go with the needle through the next three beads (8/0 Demi Round, Pinch bead, 8/0 Demi Round).

Add two more groups of three Demi Round beads as explained above and exit in the end from the last Pinch bead.

Step 9.

Go with the needle through the next 8/0 seed bead and five 11/0 Demi Round beads.

Step 10. Connection to the second unit.

Turn the beadwork with the back side up. Pick five 11/0 Demi Round beads and go again through the central three Demi Rounds from the group of seven.

Step 11.

Take the needle again through the last added Demi Round beads, following the white thread in the image above to strengthen the connection loop. Exist from the fourth one.

Step 12. Second unit.

Pick two 11/0 Demi Round beads, one 8/0 seed bead, seven 11/0 Demi Round beads, one 8/0 seed bead, seven 11/0 Demi Round beads, one 8/0 seed bead, two 11/0 Demi Round beads and go with the needle through the central three 11/0 Demi Round beads from the group of five added previously.

Take the needle through all beads strung and exit from the first added 8/0 seed bead on the left.

Step 13.

Continue beading the second unit using instructions from Step 5 through Step 8.

Step 14.

Before creating the connection to the third unit, turn the beadwork with the back side up and go through the next twenty two seed beads following the white thread. 

Step 15. Connection to unit three.

Pick five 11/0 Demi Round beads and continue beading using instruction from Step 10 and Step 11.

Step 16. Continue beading.

Continue beading using instructions from Step 4 through Step 15 to build up the bracelet. Unit three (and all the next odd units) are beaded as unit one, while unit four (and all the next even units) are made as unit two. Make a total of fourteen (ore more, if needed) units.

Step 17. Adding the second half of the magnetic clasp.

In the end, pick five 11/0 Demi Round beads, the second half of the magnetic clasp, five 11/0 Demi Round beads and go with the needle through the central three beads from the group of seven. Go one more time through this loop then hide the thread end into the beadwork and cut the excess. 

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The PDF version of this beading tutorial can be downloaded HERE.

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