Believe Festival Bracelet
This friendship bracelet is so easy, it’s a perfect project for a beginner jewellery maker
Ingredients
1 x Believe Connector
2 x Infinity Connectors
2 meters of 0.6mm Intensive Pink Waxed cotton cord
2 meters of 0.6mm Red Waxed cotton cord
1 meter of 1.5mm leather cord in candy pink
1 meter of 1.5mm leather cord in baby pink
1 meter of 1.5mm leather cord in red
16mm Ribbon Clamps
7mm Silver Plated Jump Rings
Silver Plated Lobster Clasp
GS Hypo Cement
Tools Required: Chain Nose Pliers and/or Flat Nose Pliers to squash the ribbon clamp with
Method
1.Cut the waxed cotton cord into 20cm lengths and cut the leather cords in half.
2. Now take a piece of red and a piece of pink waxed cotton and loop it onto one of the infinity connectors, repeat with two more pieces of waxed cotton cord for the other side of the connector. Do this for the remaining infinity connector.
3. Next take two more pieces of waxed cotton cord and knot them either side of the “believe” connector.
4. Now make two plaits out of the leather cords
5. Lay all the strands of cord out together and line up the ends, check the length of the bracelet and trim the cords if necessary (don’t forget to allow approx 3cm for the length of the clasp).
6. Now apply a small amount of GS Hypo Cement glue to the inside of a ribbon clamp and insert all the ends of the cords. Use your chain nose pliers to squash the ribbon clamp securely onto the cords – make sure that all the cords are trapped (you might need three pairs of hands to do this so ask a friend for some help!). Repeat for the other side of the bracelet.
7. Finally attach a jump ring to either side of the ribbon clamp and add a lobster clasp to one of the jump rings.
