Guinevere Bracelet

Guinevere Bracelet

(©2007, updated 2019 Deborah Roberti) 

Fully illustrated with detailed step-by-step instructions, this right-angle weave tutorial is ideal for beginner beaders. Although I use bicone crystals and glass pearls, most any 4mm beads will work.

MATERIALS (for a 7-inch bracelet, not including clasp)
• About 5 yards of 6 lb. FireLine
• About 600 11/0 seed beads
• About 48 dark 4mm bicone crystals
• About 46 light 4mm bicone crystals
• About 46 4mm glass pearls
• clasp



Step 1: You’re going to have to add thread while creating this bracelet so start with a length that you feel comfortable working with and add more as you need it.

String a seed bead, a dark crystal, a seed bead, a pearl, a seed bead, a light crystal, a seed bead and a pearl.

Leaving about a 12-inch tail for attaching one end of the clasp, tie these beads in a circle with a double knot:



Step 2: Go back through the pearl, the seed bead and the light crystal:



Step 3: String 5 seed beads, a light crystal and 5 seed beads. Go around and up through the light crystal that you exited at the end of the last step:



Step 4: Continue back through the 5 seed beads and down through the light crystal you strung in the last step:



Step 5: String a seed bead, a pearl, a seed bead, a dark crystal, a seed bead, a pearl and a seed bead. Go around and back down through the light crystal that you exited at the end of the last step:



Step 6: Continue back through the seed bead, the pearl, the seed bead, the dark crystal, the seed bead and the pearl you added in the last step:



You’ve just finished row 1.

Step 7: To start row 2, string a seed bead, a light crystal, a seed bead, a pearl, a seed bead, a dark crystal and a seed bead. Go around and back through the pearl that you exited at the end of the last step:



Step 8: Continue back up through the seed bead and the light crystal that you added in the last step:



Step 9: String 5 seed beads, a light crystal and a seed bead. Go around and through the middle 3 seed beads in row 1 (highlighted in RED):



Step 10: String a seed bead. Go up through the light crystal highlighted in RED:



Step 11: Go back through the 5 seed beads and the light crystal (all highlighted in RED) that you added in Step 9:



Step 12: String a seed bead. Go through the top-left pearl (highlighted in RED):



Step 13: String a seed bead, a dark crystal, a seed bead, a pearl and a seed bead. Go around and down through the light bicone crystal, the seed bead and the pearl that you exited at the end of the last step (all highlighted in RED):



Step 14: To finish row 2, continue back up through the seed bead, the dark crystal, the seed bead and the pearl:



Step 15: To start row 3, string a seed bead, a light crystal, a seed bead, a pearl, a seed bead, a dark crystal and a seed bead. Go around and back through the pearl that you exited at the end of the last step:



Step 16: Continue on up through the seed bead and the light crystal that you added in the last step:



Step 17: String 5 seed beads, a light crystal and a seed bead. Go around and through the middle 3 seed beads in row 2 (highlighted in RED):



Step 18: String a seed bead. Go up through the light crystal highlighted in RED:



Step 19: Continue back through the 5 seed beads and the light crystal (all highlighted below in RED):



Step 20: String a seed bead. Go through the top-right pearl in row 2 (highlighted in RED):



Step 21: String a seed bead, a dark crystal, a seed bead, a pearl and a seed bead. Go around and back down through the top-right light crystal, the seed bead and the pearl that you exited at the end of the last step (all highlighted in RED):



Step 22: To finish row 3, continue back up through the seed bead, the dark crystal, the seed bead and the pearl:



Repeat Steps 7-22 until your bracelet is the length you want it, minus about a half-inch and the length of your clasp.

Step 23: To attach one end of your clasp, string a seed bead, a dark crystal and two seed beads. Go through one end of the clasp and back through the last seed bead that you just strung:



Step 24: String a seed bead, a dark crystal and a seed bead. Go through the top-left pearl (highlighted in RED):



Step 25: Now the name of the game is to weave your way back through the clasp two more times to reinforce it. You can do this absolutely anyway you wish but the RED line is a suggested path:



Weave your way back into the bracelet, knot in several places and then cut your thread.

Step 26: To attach the clasp to the other end of the bracelet, simply thread your needle with the tail from Step 1. Go through the top-right pearl:



Repeat Steps 23-25.