Motif Connector Macramé Bracelet - Jewellery Making Tutorial

To make this central Motif, I used the 'How to make a necklace and earrings with rivoli crystals' tutorial prepared by Monika Wojdyła (Mytha Jewelry). You can find the full tutorial HERE. Follow it to the end of step 10.

Pick up 3 x  11/0 beads and pass through the next 6/0 along.  This will create a little triangle (picot).

Follow the bead path all the way around to the opposite side and repeat (add 3 x 11/0 between two 6/0 beads).

Again, follow the bead path all the way around the motif as many times as your needle and beads will allow. Secure your threads and trim.

Beginners can find a useful video on How to Secure your Threads HERE

Attach jump rings to both sides of the Motif, through the little triangle just created.

It is on these that we will braid the bracelet.

On our jump ting, we tie a shorter string (45 cm) as shown in the photo, i.e. grab the string in the middle, make a loop and pass both ends of our string through it.

Tighten the loop tightly and catch it with a pin attached to our work mat.

Take our second string, the longer one (80 cm) and fasten it perpendicularly to the shorter string, under it. We grab it with a pin to our working mat.

The string on the left side of our work is put over the shorter strings and inserted into the loop of the right string. Place the right string under the shorter strings and insert it into the loops of the left string.

We tighten very tightly.

Repeat all activities until the desired length is achieved. In my case it is 7cm.

After reaching this length, we finish the work by cutting the braided strings and melting them.

We do the same on the other side of our work.

This is what our bracelet should look like at this stage.

We come to the end of our work. In my case it will be terminated with Shamballa knots. The bracelet will be adjustable in length.

For this we need an additional 25 cm string. We connect the ends of our work, we pass our additional string under them and use the same knot as when braiding the bracelet, but now we make the right and left knots.

The string on the left side of our work is put over the shorter strings and inserted into the loop of the right string. Place the right string under the shorter strings and insert it into the loops of the left string.

The string on the right side of our work is put over the shorter strings and inserted into the loop of the left string. Place the left string under the shorter strings and insert it into the loops of the right string. We repeat the whole thing twice.

Cut the braided strings and light them with a lighter. We put a bead on our strings, tie knots at the ends of the strings and light it with a lighter to be sure.