Beaded Leather Wrap Bracelet ~ala~ Sundance

Long winter days seem to inspire me to make things. 

I have half a dozen projects started 

but not much finished yet.

I did make this Beaded Leather Wrap Bracelet ala The Sundance Catalog.

You can see those bracelets here.  

They come in lots of variations and are absolutely gorgeous.

And expensive...

And I have a lifetime supply of beads that need to be used. 

So I thought I'd try my hand at one.

This one below always called to me.  

I love the multi-colors and the simple style.

Here's my version.

I love how it turned out.

 

It's soft and comfortable and goes with everything!

I made it a bit shorter that the one in the catalog, so it only wraps three times.

Seems like enough on my wrist.

Here are the supplies I used:

Leather Cord (1/2 off at Hobby Lobby and enough for three bracelets!), 

Mixed glass beads in size E (1/2 off again), 

and two cards of this Silk Griffin thread in size 10.

You can see that the Griffin thread comes with a needle already threaded 

onto a length of about 6.5 feet.

That little silver curvy thing is the needle, and this is what's left of the second card.

Oh, and one button.  From my stash.

Total cost of the supplies - Maybe ten bucks.

Did you notice the price in the catalog???

If you want to make one of these bracelets for yourself, 

there are endless YouTube tutorials about them.  

This one is helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHbcCYxyJo

It might be fun to make another one, maybe in various shades of the same color, 

like this one, that you can buy on Etsy:

The possibilities are endless!

What are you doing on these long winter days?

I'd love some more ideas!!!




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