Learn how to use Herringbone and peyote stitches to create a lacy bracelet in this PotomacBeads tutorial. The Delta Bracelet sits comfortably on your wrist and brings a pop of color and shine to your outfit.
1.Using a size 10 needle, add a stop bead to 6 feet of .006 Wildfire, leaving about 8 inches for a tail. Pick up a 3mm round, a superduo, 2 seed beads, an O bead, 2 more seed beads and another superduo. Add a seed bead a round and an O bead. Bring the needle through the top hole of the last superduo. This begins the Herringbone pattern.
2.Watch the Delta Bracelet tutorial to follow along with Allie’s step-by-step directions to create the beaded bracelet.
3.Add a cup button to the end of the bracelet with a few seed beads and reinforce. Tie off the thread. Take off the stop bead and create a peyote stitch loop of seed beads with the tail end of the thread.
The herringbone stitch gives this Delta bracelet a nice flexible, flat feel. Have fun experimenting with colors to make a unique on-of-a-kind piece of jewelry.