Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Braided Chain Bracelet

This bracelet I made because I got an inspiration from this page. Of course, the original was rainbow, and a necklace, but that's still where I got the idea. And I like how mine turned out.


 I started with two chains and two old shoelaces. I never actually used these, but I think siblings did. They were in the craft drawer. Pretty sure anything could work, but a solid and a braid/pattern work really well together.
 Trying to stay true to the inspiration (and make it stay chunky-ish), I stuck everything through a connector link and doubled them.
 Then I braided.
 At the end of the braid, for convenience sake, I connected all four ends of the  chain.
 After which I proceeded  to wrap the end of the braid with a wire. I ended up undoing the hook and just wrapping it.
 Final product of wrapping.
 This is what it looked like at this point. Not that long.. Might I suggest starting out with a lot more stuff than you think you need, especially if you want a necklace. The chain was the limiting factor for me, but still.
 I then trimmed the ends, but as you can see, the ends of shoelaces fray when cut.
So I taped the ends with black electrical tape.
 And it looks like this.
I then attached a lobster claw clasp to the doubled-over end  of the bracelet.

 And I attached about three links of large-ish chain to the other end so the claw would have something to grab onto. It's unfortunate that the claw doesn't match the other metal, but I ran out of brass ones.

 And this is the final product! The clasp doesn't even stand out too badly. If I did this again, I might try it with gold chain with green, or silver chain with blue.
 

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