Daisy garden bracelet

Watch your beadwork bloom as you stitch a garden of delight on a ladder stitch path in this project.

Materials

Bracelet 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)

• 3 g 6 mm bugle beads
• 15/0 seed beads
• 2 g color A (dark green)
• 1 g color B (light green)
• 1 g in each of 3 colors: C, D, E
• Clasp
• nylon beading thread, size B, or Fireline 6 lb. test
• beading needles, #12

[1] On a comfortable length of thread, pick up two bugle beads, leaving a 24-in. (61 cm) tail. Sew through both bugles again. Working in ladder stitch, make a strip (Photo A) that is 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm) shorter than the desired length of the finished bracelet, ending and adding thread as needed. Make sure the number of bugles is divisible by three.

[2] With your thread exiting an end bugle, pick up a color A 15/0 seed bead, a color B 15/0 seed bead, an A, a bugle, an A, a B, four As, one half of the clasp, and three As. Sew back through the fourth A from the clasp to make a loop with three beads on each side of the clasp. Pick up an A, a B, an A, a bugle, an A, a B, and an A, and sew through the other end of the bugle your thread exited at the start of this step (Photo B). Retrace the thread path to reinforce the clasp connection.

[3] Using the tail, repeat step 2 at the other end with the other half of the clasp. Do not end the tail.

Pick up four Ds, and sew through the C again. Sew through all eight Ds just added, and sew through the first four Ds again to form a flower (Photo G). Sew through the C and four As, exiting one half of the X, and sew through the corresponding bugle.

[6] Sew through the next unembellished bugle. Repeat steps 4 and 5 along the band with the following adjustments:

• Alternate between adding one flower and two flowers on every other X.
• When adding two flowers on an X, anchor each one to a center bead on opposite branches of the X.
• Use two colors for each flower, pairing Cs, Ds, and Es as desired.

[6] Sew through the next unembellished bugle. Repeat steps 4 and 5 along the band with the following adjustments:

• Alternate between adding one flower and two flowers on every other X.
• When adding two flowers on an X, anchor each one to a center bead on opposite branches of the X.
• Use two colors for each flower, pairing Cs, Ds, and Es as desired.