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DIY: colorful satin cord bracelets
18.Jul.11 Comments

We ALL love bracelets and we can´t get enough of them. Today I´ll show you how to craft these colorful bracelets! Never thought I´d post a DIY…that´s crazy!!!!

This is what you´ll need:
- - 4 x 35 cm (about 14 inches) of satin rope cord: You can take any colors you
- want
- - bell closure with or without extension chain gold plated: the inner diameter
- should be 10mm (3/8”)
- - glue for jewelry
- - pair of scissors
- - candle
- - pliers
We have to close the ends of the 4 satin cords so that they don´t come apart. Therefore we hold each end of the cords for a few seconds over a flame and then quickly press with the pliers on it in order to get a flat and closed end.

Haha…I must admit that my ropes don´t have the same length! :-)

Then you put a little bit of the glue in one end of the closure in order to fix all of the four satin cords

Here you can see how to plait the bracelet…

As soon as your bracelet has got the length as mine on the right image you cut all the ends to the same length and put them in the other part of the closure. Maybe you´ll have to repeat that “flame procedure” to get clean parts at the end. Also make sure not to use too much glue as it might come out and you´ll have a mess.

And now your bracelet should look like this one!

Instead of two different satin cords you could also use suede lace (5x35cm/14 inches) as you can see on my left wrist.

Hope you like my little tutorial. Please let me know if you have any questions!