Craft Project: How to make a Beeded

Beaded Fishtail bracelet

Make Donna McKean Smith’s Beaded Fishtail loom band bracelet using alphabet beads to make a truly personal design.

GATHER THESE SUPPLIES 1 pack metallic loom bands – use 3 colours 6mm Alphabet Beads S Clip Small piece of 0.5mm wire

STEP BY STEP...

Take a purple band and make a figure of eight over 2 of your loom hooks

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Take care to position your bands carefully on top of each other as it will create a neater finished result.

Add a silver loom band followed by a gold loom band in a complete circle over the same 2 hooks.

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Add a further purple band and take the silver band over the top of the gold and purple bands, repeat with by adding a silver band and bringing the gold band over the top, continue until you have loomed approx 2” depending on the name you want to add. 4 3

Take the purple band from the bottom up and over the top of both the bands, repeat the opposite side.

To add your beads into your design fold a 2” piece of wire in half and place a band in the centre, close the wire and push both bits through the bead, if you are writing a name I start with the last letter first, pull on the wire to stretch the band through the bead.

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Bring both sides over as normal to sit flush either side of the bead. Continue to add a band with no bead on and loom over, add a further band with no bead and loom over, you will now have the correct spacing inbetween and can add your next letter into your design, continue until your name is added and finish with some plain fishtail to match the first side.

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Hold both sides of the band and place on the loom as normal

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To finish your bracelet add an s clip onto the start of your braclet, for the side still on the loom, take the bottom band over the top one, leaving you with one band on either side , hook the s clip through one side of the band and take it off the loom, then over the other side and remove from the loom.

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