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Peas & Carrots Bracelet
Designed by: Jessica L. Rosenfeld
Skill Level: Intermediate

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Materials:

  • Soft Touch™ Wire, .024 Diameter - 9 inches
  • Sterling Silver Solstice Puzzle Closure - 1 clasp
  • 2mmx3mm Sterling Silver Crimp Tubes - 2 crimps
  • 1.5 inch Sterling Silver Head Pins - 12 pins
  • Teeny Tiny Ceramic Carrot Beads - 6 beads
  • Teeny Tiny Ceramic Peas Beads - 6 beads
  • 4mm Peridot AB Fire Polished Beads - 36 beads
  • Vintage Green Czech Glass Leaves - 13 beads

Tools:

  • Soft Flex® Professional Flush Cutter
  • German Small Flat & Round Looping Pliers
  • Bead Crimping Pliers

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Instructions:

  1. Take a headpin and place 1 - 4mm Peridot AB Finish bead (will be referred to from now on as "4mm Green Bead") then 1 - Teeny Tiny Carrot. Make a bead dangle using a basic wire wrapped loop (click here for wire wrapped loop instructions). Make 6 dangles out of the Carrot beads and 6 out of the Peas using this step. You should have a total of 12 bead dangles.

  2. Cut approximately 9 inches of Soft Touch™ Wire from the spool (for a finished bracelet length of 8 inches, including the clasp).

  3. String one end of the wire through one 3mm Sterling Silver Crimp tube, through one end of the clasp, and back through the crimp.Secure using Crimping pliers. (click here for Crimping Instructions). Cut off excess wire using Soft Flex Professional Flush Cutters.

  4. String beads in the following order: 1 - 4mm Green bead, 1 Matte Leaf, 1 4mm Green bead, 1 - Pea Pod Dangle, 1 - 4mm Green Bead, 1 - Leaf, 1 - 4mm Green Bead, and 1 - Carrot Bead Dangle.

  5. Repeat step 4, five more times.

  6. End with 1 - 4mm Green Bead, 1 - Leaf, and 1 - 4mm Green Bead.

  7. String this end of wire through one 3mm Crimp, through the other end of the clasp, and back through the crimp. Secure using Crimping pliers. Cut off excess wire using cutters.

Projects not intended for children under the age of 13. The information on this instruction sheet is presented in good faith, but no warranty is given, nor results guaranteed. Soft Flex® Company disclaims all liability from any injury to anyone undertaking the construction of this project as a result of improper safety precautions.

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