For my birthday last week I received a kit which contains all the equipment to make a shell button bracelet. The kit is from www.buttoncompany.co.uk which sells fabric, ribbon and obviously buttons. If you don't have the kit, this diy would be very affordable as you can easily get the thread and buttons online or at your local craft store like hobbycraft. Thread and ribbon can be sold by the metre for pence and buttons can be bought in the pick 'n' mix style like sweets cheaply:)
You will need:
~ 0.5m waxed cotton cord
~ 10 small shell buttons
~ 9 smaller shell buttons
~ 1 small coconut button
~ glue or clear nail varnish (not included in the kit but I used the natural collection 'crystal clear' nail varnish)
1. Tie a loop at one end of your cord, and cut the short end close to the knot to make it tidy. (Make sure the coconut button can easily fit through the loop but it isn't too loose.)
2. Thread a big button onto the cord, going up through the back and then down through the front. Push the button to the loop so that it's tight against the knot.
3. Thread a smaller button on in the same and it will fit snugly behind the first big button.
4. Carry on using the opposite size button each time going big, small, big, small etc until you run out of buttons (you should end with a big one.) If you want you can add more buttons so that they will go all along the bracelet, the kit only came with 10 big and 9 small and it's fine with just that. Tie a knot at the back of the last button making sure they are all tightly close together.
5. Check the length of the bracelet against your wrist to see where to attach the clasp button (this is the coconut button).
6. To attach the clasp button, go up through the back, diagonally across, down through the front and repeat in the holes you haven't used. Check that this is still the right length and if not you can easily adjust it. When it's the right length, tie a knot underneath the button. The loop tied at the beginning and this button is the clasp.
7. Neatly trim the ends of the thread to tidy up and dab with a bit of glue or clear nail varnish to secure the knots.
FINISHED :)
I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow:) I really like the bracelet especially with the shell buttons as they shine in the sunlight but it's still small on your wrist with no in-your-face bright colours. I quite like the plain buttons being all the same but maybe you could try will selection of coloured buttons in a pattern. The only fault that I can find with the kit is that there could maybe be more buttons so that they go all along the bracelet?
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I hope that you enjoyed this post and are having a great morning/afternoon/evening/night/whenever you are reading this and check back again on wednesday for a new post :)
megan x
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