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Cuff bracelet tutorial
First you need to go to Joanne Fabrics and get a yard of this cream colored, 1 and a half inch wide cotton webbing. The trickiest part of making this bracelet is locating the webbing in the store. You'll find a spool of it below the sewing notions (like snaps and hooks and eyes). It's $2.49 a yard. Cut about 9.25 inches of it. Turn the ends under about 1/4 of an inch and stitch with a sewing machine. I use the heavy all cotton quilting thread.
Next sew on your lace and any other pieces of material you'd like. I used a straight stitch to sew on the denim and a zig-zag stitch to sew on the lace. You can sew the lace on flat or to give it more texture crumple it up when sewing it on to the webbing.
Here I sewed it on flat. Next set a snap in each end of the bracelet. I bought the $2.99 snap setter (don't waste your money on the $23 snap setter) kit. Just follow the directions on the back of the package, keep your fingers out of the way and you'll be fine.
Now comes the hand sewing! I use the heavy cotton Americana cream colored sewing thread and I double it on the needle. Sew on fibers ( I use the crazing shaggy yarn that knitters use to make scarves) here and there. Again pile them up to create interesting textured "nests". Sew on beads and buttons with the doubled thread wherever you'd like them. I try to make little groupings.
After I get the lace sewn on with the machine it takes me about an hour to sew on the fibers and beads for each bracelet. It's not a fast thing to do but the result is that you'll have a bracelet that no other person has!
Good luck! Can't wait to see what you say about this bracelet! If you make one I'd love to see it!
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