Bead bracelets, necklaces, and more!/Getting started with making bracelets

Getting Started with Necklaces

Firstly, decide on what pattern you’re going to make. You can make any pattern, like a rainbow, or a two color pattern, or even use just one color in a whole project.

Then begin running each bead one by one into the string.

Be sure to measure the length of the string, and then trying it around your neck, whether it’s by getting someone else or putting it on yourself to get a good feeling of how your necklace should fit, and be sure to leave a little extra that you can then tie around and cut later. (See the bottom on a tip on how to measure it yourself.)

Here’s a tip: If you are measuring by yourself, make sure to put the middle part of your of the string at the back of your neck and run it until the two ends meet at the bottom of your neck, then make a knot around the top that you can easily unknot later.

Then, once you’re done making the rest, get someone to measure it and be sure it fits around your neck. If you are measuring by yourself, see the tip above, then put it around your neck.

Once you’re done, and you are confident in your design, make a secure and tight knot at the top of the necklace (you may need to a make extra knot below the first one you made) and cut off the extra string.

Where to tie and cut a stringed bead design (this is a bead bracelet, but this also applies to necklaces).

And you’re done! you’ve successfully made your first necklace!