BCA Bracelet - "Kathy"
Show your support for breast cancer awareness with this elegant and sleek bracelet. If you don't like silver on silver, use gold vermeil spacers to create a lovely two-toned design. This bracelet is named in honor of a friend's mother who is a survivor and continues to work in the field to beat breast cancer.
Level: Easy
Materials
Sterling toggle clasp
Pink enameled ribbon charm
1 4mm oval jump ring
26 5mm sterling or silver-plated round beads
24 Bali daisy spacers
2 crimp beads
Beadalon, Accuflex or Softflex beading wire
Cut a length of beading wire 8 ¼". Using a crimping pliers, attach the wire to the round component of the toggle clasp with a crimp bead, leaving approximately 1cm wire doubled over. String 3 round beads, ensuring that the doubled over wire slips inside the beads to hide it. Your end round bead should be flush with the crimp bead. String 3 Bali daisy spacers.
Continue stringing 3 round beads, 3 spacers until you have 3 rounds and 3 spacers left. (You will have a series of 2 rounds on your wire at the time you stop.) Attach the ribbon charm to the jump ring, and slide the jump ring on the wire. Add 1 round bead. The ring will nestle between the round beads. Finish stringing the last 3 spacers, the last 2 round beads and the crimp bead.
String the wire through the ring on the bar component of the toggle clasp. Pull the wire back through the crimp bead and 1-2 round beads, pull it gently to bring the crimp within 1mm of the toggle (you want it to be snug, but not so tight that there is no "give" to the toggle.) Secure the crimp bead using your crimping pliers. Tug gently on the bracelet to ensure the crimp doesn't slip. Clip the excess wire close to the end of the round bead.
If you like the look of this bracelet, but prefer gold jewelry, you can substitute gold-plated balls, gold vermeil spacers, gold plated or filled clasp, and a gold charm. Enameled charms are more difficult to find in gold, but you can tray using an enameling paint, such as Color Magic (available at rings-things.com) to color a plain charm.
