How to make a sliding knot bracelet with beads

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How do you make a sliding bracelet?

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Designer: Megan Milliken

In this video, learn how to make a macrame sliding knot clasp. This adjustable clasp is an interesting way to connect braiding or knotting projects. See also How to Make a Shambhala Bracelet, Part I: Macrame Square Knots and How to Make a Shambhala Bracelet, Part II: Macrame Knot Finishing

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Hi. This is Megan with Beadaholique.com Today I'm going to show you how to make a macrame sliding knot clasp. It's a really good way to finish a macrame bracelet like a Shamballa bracelet or just a good adjustable way to finish any kind of corded work. So you can see how to do a macrame square knot in another video and if you don't know how to do that go ahead and watch that video first "How to Make a Macrame Square Knot" This is going to be using the same principles as that it's going to be make square knots. What you'll is a basically have your work and you'll take the ends of your work and loop them around and have both ends parallel to each other. Just like that. Then you're going to take another strand of cord. I'm using waxed cotton cord. You can use any kind of cord that you want for the style of macrame knotting and you'll just use the same cord that's used for the body of the bracelet. So when I'm going to make my sliding knot clasp, I'm going to take you probably want a little over a foot length for your knot clasp just go ahead and put it inside the bracelet loop thread it about the middle so that you have half of it on either side. Then you're going to tie a few square knots in that. The number of knots that you put in your sliding knot clasp will depend on how wide you want the clasp to be. So I would say you probably want to do two or three square knots just to have a clasp nice and stable. But you can make a wider if you like. And the important part is to make sure that while you're pulling your knots relatively tight to make them uniform you wanna still be able to pull on the ends of your center cord and move that around so that you can adjust the bracelet. I'm just going to go ahead and just do three square knots on this clasp Then you would finished off your clasp just the same way that you would any other macrame knotting and you could see how to do that on the video how to finish off macrame knotting. And once you finish that off you'll see that you can pull on the ends of the center cord of the bracelet to make it smaller or larger. So you can also pull it open to put it on and then pull on the ends to have it more fitted around your wrist. So once you finish off the knot that is going to be what you're sliding knot clasp looks like. Go to Beadaholique.com for all of your beading supply needs!

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Hey beautiful! In today’s tutorial I will show you how to make these quick and easy adjustable sliding knot bracelets. You will see me demonstrate a bracelet with a single strand of cord, and also a bracelet with double strands on either side. Everything you need to make these bracelets, and more, is available at Beebeecraft. Please see below for the full list of materials:

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Optional: finish off the ends of the cords with additional spacer beads, as shown above, and use a lighter, or a cord burner, to melt the ends of the cord next to the knots. The bracelet pictured with the lime green cord is made with a single strand of 1mm cord, but I also show you how to make the red coral gemstone chip variety below, which contains double strands of cord on each side. Same knotting technique, just a bit bulkier with the two cords.

This adjustable sliding knot bracelet technique is so versatile! Simply use a connector, or even the decorative ring of a toggle clasp. Or, get fancy and string on two hole beads such as the Miyuki Tilas (as shown) onto two pieces of wire, which end in wrapped loops.

This bracelet technique is also a great way to use up small, left-over quantities of beads, or to use with gemstone chip beads, which can sometimes prove to be a challenge due to their irregular shape.

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