How to Make a Beaded Bracelet Like a Boss

Writing and Graphics by Annie Inawat

* Please read images top to bottom then left to right.

1. Gather your supplies: beads, eye pins, clasps, needle nosed pliers, and flat nosed pliers. Start planning your design.

2. Insert eye pin into the bead’s hole.

3. Measure out twice the bead’s diameter and trim the excess part of the eye pin.

4. Curl the straight side eye pin into a loop using needle nose pliers. You will add on more loops to this chain later on.

5. Take a new eye pin, and use the pliers to open the loop. Insert this loop to the chain you are working with, and close the loop of the new eye pin. 

6. Insert a bead of your choosing to the new eye pin. Repeat steps 2-6 until desired length.

**TIP!! Use excess to make … more eye pins!

7. Attach clasps by attaching a jump ring to both ends of your chain.

8. Close the jump ring

9. Optional: use jump rings to connect more charms to your bracelet! See step 8 as well for how I use jump rings.