I’ve been having fun, making some new items for my Etsy shop.  Of course, as soon as the jewelry gets made, I have to wear it!

So, I’m wearing my new steampunk bracelet right now, and loving it.

What’s listed in my Etsy shop are the individual oval links.

I’ll be posting a video soon showing how you can make a very cool bracelet with only one link.  But I’m kinda partial to this one with three.  🙂

Happy creating!

Materials:

• three oval cuff bracelet links, approximately 1.5 inches x 1 inch (two holes on each side)
• 14 8mm jump rings
• eight small beads
• eight eye pins
• lobster clasp
• two pair chain nose pliers
• round nose pliers
• wire cutters

Instructions:

1. Slide a bead onto an eye pin. Use round nose and chain nose pliers to make a loop with remaining pin. Cut off excess eye pin. Repeat to make a total of eight bead links.
2. Open a jump ring; slide into a hole of a cuff bracelet link. Slide on a bead link and close jump ring. Open another jump ring; slide into corresponding hole in another cuff bracelet link. Slide on other end of bead link, being careful to keep everything straight and untwisted. Repeat to attach second pair of holes in cuff bracelet link. Repeat to attach third cuff bracelet link.
3. Use jump rings to attach remaining four bead links to remaining four holes in cuff bracelet links.
4. Attach remaining loops of two bead links (coming from the same cuff bracelet link) to a single jump ring. Repeat for remaining two bead links, adding a lobster clasp to this jump ring.

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