Sweet Peach Chainmaille Bracelet

Designed by Lena Bugrimenko ©2010

This design is one of my daughter's personal favorites. It's fun to wear a bracelet that moves on your arm! Of course, by changing the color of the pearls used, or by substituting round, faceted Swarovski crystal beads for the pearls and using your personal choice of a fancy toggle clasp or lobster claw, you can completely alter the entire look of this design! The pattern below (six-charm links) will make a 7.5-inch bracelet, end-to-end. To make a smaller size, make just five-charm links and then make and add a 2-in-2-link chain as needed.

Skill Level: Beginner/All

Technique: Chain Maille

Materials (OD = Outer Diameter)

• 20  10mm OD 18-gauge jump rings, sterling silver or silver-plated
• 60  6mm OD 18-gauge jump rings, sterling silver or silver-plated
• 24  6mm round peach-colored pearl beads
• 12  6mm bi-cone Swarovski® crystal beads
• 1 Toggle Clasp (or clasp of your choosing)
• 24  1.5" Headpins, sterling silver or silver-plated

Tools

• Flat Nose Pliers
• Chain Nose Pliers
• Round Nose Pliers
• Jump Ring Opener
• Wire Cutters

Instructions

1. Prepare all of the pearl headpin charms: Slide a single pearl on a headpin, then use round nose pliers to form a basic loop immediately above the pearl, and trim the excess headpin length.
   
   
2. Prepare all of the single Swarovski® crystal bi-cone headpin charms in the same manner.
   
   
   
3. Prepare the necessary jump rings by opening 20 large rings and closing 60 small rings.
   
   
4. Put 4 small rings onto one large ring and close the large ring firmly. Do this 4 times.
   
   
   
5. Add the following headpin charms onto a large open ring, in this order: 1 pearl, 1 crystal and 1 pearl.
   
   
   
6. Add 2 small rings from the #3 and #4 large rings onto the large open ring (with the charms). Then add 2 small rings from rings #1 and #2 as shown.
   
   
   
7. Add 1 pearl, 1 crystal, and 1 pearl charm onto the large open ring. Close the large open ring firmly.
   
   
   
8. Put 4 small closed rings onto a new open large ring, then close the large open ring. Repeat.



9. Repeat steps 5-8 until you reach the desired length of the bracelet.
   
   
10. Finish the bracelet with either a lobster claw clasp with a headpin charm and jump ring closure, or a toggle clasp - it's your choice!
    
    

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