Would you be inspired to make something magical? Something punk? Something industrial? Or would you keep complaining that you don't have enough beads in your stash to do anything?
Introducing the Ladder Bracelet!!
I'm certain that the idea is not new, by any means. Still, I realized that with 12-14 inches of chain and a small handful of beads, you can make a pretty funky bracelet. It doesn't require a whole lot of beaded chain or stringing or anything like that. Just simple wire work.
I was looking at some odd chain I had laying around and some beads that weren't quite enough to do what I originally wanted when I realized that the positioning of chain links ALWAYS follows an alternating pattern that puts adjacent links at perpendicular to one another. Their positioning makes it possible to thread things like wire with beads on it through the links to form something of a ladder. That is what I did.
As you can see above, depending on how large the bead is and how large the chain links are, I use about 16-32 beads to make one ladder bracelet. The beauty of this design is that it requires so few materials and works up very fast. In the end, you have a neat bracelet with a lot of versatility.
Why don't you guys give it a try and post links to your ladder bracelets in the comments?
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