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How to Create Multi Size/Shape Czech Glass Bracelet with Button Hole Closure

July 23, 2024

Learn to make a beautiful bracelet, using different size/shape beads, plus a professional buttonhole closure, while using the Original Jewel Loom! You can also shorten this bracelet to use as a bail, when the button closure is closed, forming a loop & hanging on a necklace, so the button can be a beautiful centerpiece of a pendant. The techniques Julianna C Avelar teaches in these tutorials are broken down, so you can quickly look up the techniques you want when designing your own different designs. Some different suggestions to use these techniques are given throughout the blog. This blog contains the videos you need, close ups of the bracelet as a pattern guide, & additional information.

First, you will need to warp your loom. If you have never warped a Jewel Loom before or need a refresher course, use the video directly below on how to do so. But, you will want to warp 4 warps, skipping 4 grooves between the warps, instead of what this video says. You can start watching at the 5:32 mark to save you time.

Jewels is using beads from the Havasu themed Jewel Loom July 2024 Creative Soul Box. From the box, she is using the blue Czech Glass button, larger round beads in different colors, the square top-drilled beads, pinch beads (3 sided beads), & smaller round beads. She also uses 8/0 seed beads for around the button & buttonhole. And she uses 11/0 as fillers between beads, so the beads fit between the warps & don't leave space.

Supplies Used:

Havasu Themed Creative Soul Box
8/0 & 11/0 seed beads (your choice of colors)
Wildfire: https://jewelloom.com/collections/jewelry-making-buttons/wildfire-beading-thread
Jewel Loom Needles: https://jewelloom.com/collections/jewelry-making-buttons/beading-needles
Original Jewel Loom: https://jewelloom.com/collections/jewel-loom-original-baby/products/jewelloom OR https://jewelloom.com/collections/jewel-loom-original-baby/products/jewel-loom%C2%AE-beaded-bracelet-starter-kit-with-bonus-baby-jewel-loom-and-needles

When you are ready to weave, Jewels starts with the button area. Below is the video, in which Jewels shows how to do this section. A closeup photo of the button area is included directly below this video, so you can check it out more closely. You will want to use your 8/0 seed beads in this area.

You can also use this tecnique to use a button as the centerpiece of a bracelet or pendant, by weaving it into the center area.

Below are photos of the beadwork, showing the patterns Jewels chose to use. These are 2 different style bracelets, with these bead weaving between the solid 8/0 seed beads between the button & the buttonhole. Please keep in mind, Jewels has a 6 inch wrist, so you may need a longer or shorter bracelet to go around your wrist. For a larger bracelet, make some sections of beading longer. For a shorter bracelet, cut out some rows. Please remember, the button hole area will overlap the bracelet, so the button can rest through the hole. You may want to make the bracelet slightly longer (the length of the bracelet minus the buttonhole area) to ensure it closes, plus for those humid days when your body swells up. Better to be able to close it, then not be able to wear it!

Once you get the center woven to the length you want, start weaving the buttonhole area. This technique can also be used as a design technique, such as making "peak-a-boo" bracelets & earrings. Or you can use it at the top of a pendant to attach beaded or woven chains through the hole to create a necklace.

Now you will want to finish the bracelet, giving it a professional look. And be sure to take Jewels' suggestions by weaving back through the buttonhole area & maybe the button area. Personally, I try to weave through this area 3 times, since the hole in the center does weaken the area more than if the area had beads all the way across. It does make a big difference on the strength of the bracelet, closing it, & how it lays.

These techniques used to create this bracelet can be used individually or mixed & matched with other techniques you have learned, to make beautiful jewely designs. Happy Bead Looming!!!

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Transcript:

well hello

so I wanted to get a a jump jump start

ahead of it all of those words

um on the live that I'm doing on

September what is today September the

7th

2023 and so I wanted to get step one

part one dialed in and um so that I

could really focus on the technique so

here we go

um I'm going to be working with the

beige wildfire

and I'm also going to be working on the

original let's see original Jewel bloom

and I'm using of course

a jewel loom needle

and I'm going to be working with the New

Bright Lights Vega night so Vega Texas

has a print on my heart forever and a

day and if you haven't heard the story

you know I broke down

um in Vega and the dispatcher was

amazing and the deputy that sat

um with us until the tow truck came was

just seriously an angel you know totally

a God God sent angel of protection I

believe so I put together this um kid

it's a modification of a kit I had put

together for a memory pouch and so I

thought well we've done the pouch let's

do a bracelet so this is a gorgeous 8-0

Rosaline luster color and it's just so

so beautiful and then I've got a

terracotta

11-0 that I'm going to be using for the

loops this is going to be the base and

then if I need 80s for sewing on the

clasp later then I can pull from here as

well

typically a tube of eight o's with these

bracelets let me show you the bracelet

by the way so you know what the heck I'm

talking about so this is the bracelet

it's called Ocean's desire this

particular one this was in my book

and

um we're going to be doing this so the

first step is to build your base so

we'll be doing one two three four five

six we're gonna go six across with the

eight O's and for my wrist I have a six

inch wrist

so I'm going to build the base I think

it's like about five and a half long and

then the clasp now this is a this is not

the clasp that comes in the kit because

this is a reel

this is a real silver

um expensive oh my heck I think I paid

like 30 bucks or something

for that class but um yeah so we're

gonna do that and then

um just as a separate idea if you only

wanted to be the middle of your bracelet

we did this in the past this is this was

the Earth Tone kit one of my most

favorites we warped with um hemp and I

love love love love love this and it's

such a fun fun design so you could

always just do the looping in the middle

of your bracelet if you chose to but

with this particular demo

um project I am going to be warping and

using the Wildfire for both the warps

and the wefts so

I don't know you could still just do the

metal totally well we'll cross that

bridge when we get to it all right um

let me show you the kit that I put

together for you there are

um gosh at this taping I think there

were we were down to 15. so this is a

combination of Czech glass that you're

going to get in the kit and it's a

variety nothing is the same

um you'll probably have a big one or two

focal beads in there that you can or

cannot use in this project and then I

also put together

a bag full of gemstones now I'm just

going to put those in my hand I'm going

to take out the three buttonhole clasps

that you're going to have in your kit

because we're going to sew our clasp

onto this project so I'll just put that

to the side and then there's some aqua

Jasper every little baggie is a little

bit different the main

gemstone which is man-made is the aqua

Jasper but then in some of the kits I

sprinkled in little chips of

um like a topaz quartz and I don't know

there's come a couple other it looks

like some lapis got in this one so just

a fun fun assortment I'm going to keep

this to the side just so as I'm building

my projects I know where to pull from

and so yeah so this is our new kit and

it's all right here if you want to take

a lookie and um like I said I think at

this point we were down to about 15 of

these and so yeah all right I'm gonna

push I'm going to put all of this to the

side because for this part one we are

just going to focus on building the base

which again is just going to be this

area right here so let's go ahead and

clear the area

should have some backup uh backup noise

right beep beep

and oh I'm also have my scissors and my

Flats on hand

they kind of act as a

third third hand there

um let me bring in the jewel loom so I'm

going to put the rod in the bottom hole

and let me just kind of give you a

visual too so you know where my body's

I um this is my left hand this is my

right hand and this is my body so if you

look at the bottom of the jewel loom the

bottom of the jewel loom is closest to

my torso

and what I'm going to do is take the rod

and I'm going to put that in the bottom

hole

and then remember your jewel loom

not going to force it oh

let me pull back out hold on see when

that happens that's such a I love it

when that happens

turn the loom and just kind of

reposition the tension don't ever force

it because the jewel loom is made

from a flexible plastic not a bendable

plastic so do you see what happened just

right there when I first tried to put

the rod into that top hole it was like

yeah I'm not going to have it I'm not in

and so

um and so yeah so I just turned the loom

and and repositioned it and and it

worked so all all good but definitely

something to remember about the loom is

that it is you know it is a flexible

plastic not a bendable plastic so I'm

working from this big old ginormous

spool of

wildfire

I'm going to turn the loom over and this

button right here is closest to my body

all right and I'm going to just make

a loop and we're going to put that oh

and I tell when you're when you're

working with the slider color

uh wildfire

you got to pay attention because it's

very light

I guess I could have pulled some black

out but I really just for my project I

haven't made a full bracelet in a while

so this is going to be really fun for me

and um and I want Brown

and so let me just get a little bit of

this loose here so we're going to be

going six across which means we want

seven

warps and I'm working from the spool

and so let me just bring it up here I'm

going to lay this down because I'm just

working with a section of the Loom I'm

not worried where I really start I just

kind of typically start off to the side

here from what I would refer to as the

middle lining up with that back button

so I'm going to lay

the Wildfire into one of the grooves

and then I turn my loom over and I help

to guide the Wildfire all the way down

to the bottom

and I'm just eyeballing it okay if you

want to get technical and count you can

but really just kind of eyeball it I

think you'll be fine and then I'm going

to turn it over again

and now I'm going

around that back button now I'm working

with the Ado so I want to skip one

Groove

flip it over again bring it all the way

up to the top

skipping a Groove

flip it over wrap it around

and we're just going to continue to do

the same motion same process here

skipping a Groove

oh it looks like my

Groove down my

did you pop back in I'm going to fix

that later I'm not worried about it

so my my thread bounced over one

but it's on the bottom so I'm not gonna

have

no kitten

and we're just gonna let me come up to

the camera here

so what do I got four so I need seven so

I gotta do this a few more times

this is my last my last one

if you ever feel like you need to get a

grip just do see how I I grabbed it with

my pointer because you don't want to

lose your tension so if you ever need to

readjust your hands so what do we got

one two three four

five six so I need one more I need seven

warps because I'm doing uh six beads so

it's always one more Warp than it is

the beads you were doing across

Ed so there's my seven and so now what

I'm gonna do and let me just give myself

a little

extra

space with that

um so now I'm just gonna grab the warp

and I'm going around the button make

sure you don't grab the metal rod

because then your warps are going to get

loose so just go around that back button

a handful or you know a few times

and then I'm going to put pressure with

my thumb

and then I'm going to come over here and

a waste so I'm just going to clip it

I don't know I have

several lunches I guess you could say

and then what I'm going to do is I'm

going to find the end

ah it's so light colored

and then I'm just coming under all the

warps

so the goal here is to get a knot and

really however you get to that

um you may be like oh well Jules I I do

it this way and that's fine whatever way

you do it the goal is to just get your

first knot so that you don't lose your

tension Okay so

so that's how I did that and then again

so I'm just going to come under all the

warps

and grab that little Wiggly towel

through the loop

and pull it up

so probably okay with just those two

knots so I'm going to go ahead and trim

and wonderful okay

so where was that area

you know what it's so far down I'm not

going to worry about it I might try to

fix it but I think it's fine so what I'm

going to do now is I'm going to remove

the rod and I don't want to confuse you

so let me tell you what happened down

here my my warp my thread went over too

instead of one at the very bottom

it's not a deal breaker because I'm

making a bracelet I'm working up in this

area it's not going to like ruin my

project I I'm just not going to go back

and worry about it so give yourself some

leeway to make a little boo-boo like

that and

call it a day it's not going to distort

anything it's all good so what we want

to do now is I'm going to take my

pointer

and

um in and listen if we weren't recording

this would I have stopped and gone back

and corrected it probably I mean but

again people are so hard on themselves

and if it's not a deal breaker for the

project then then just

don't worry about it okay so I'm going

to take my pointer I'm putting it over

the grooves just to hold it now for this

I may need to let me see if I could get

it without putting it on my body I think

I'm gonna have to push this end up

against my chest here

oh and once again it doesn't want to

come out that direction so I turn the

loom around transfer that tension and

then again

pop hey hey

all right awesome oh my gosh

[Music]

okay and then typically the distance

that you want to see between the bottom

of the Warped jewel loom and the top bed

of the warps it's a good it's about two

inches maybe a little bit hair more but

I've seen people wear man they have

really

they've just done it a little too much I

would you know you got to be careful

because again the plastic is flexible

it's not bendable and also when it's too

tight you're losing the base you're

losing the length of of the warps for

your project so I would say again that

from the bottom dip here of your jewel

loom all right where it's warping two

the top bed here to the top of the warps

you want about a two inch it's about a

two inch spread nothing too much far

over that okay

so listen we are already into this for

uh just about 15 minutes and what I'm

gonna go ahead and do is I'm gonna come

back I'm going to upload part one and uh

we're actually going to have a part two

and then tonight when we go live that

will be uh part three because it just um

you know you I just like to keep things

in chunks

simple chunks so that you can um you can

learn better uh with with what technique

you need to versus sitting and watching

something for so long all right listen

that's that's a good warp that's a

really good warp all right I'm gonna

upload this and then we'll get started

with building the base

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