Welcome to the beaded sun circle bracelet pattern instructions! If you have any difficulty following this tutorial, please post a comment at the bottom of the page, and I'll do my best to help!
Before you begin ...
Materials: 2 meters of fishing line, 152 yellow 4mm round beads OR yellow size 6 seed beads ("E beads") (these are large seed beads); 7 orange or brown 8mm diameter disk beads OR 70 orange or brown size 11 or 15 (small) seed beads : this is for the central disk or seed bead circle (for each of the 7 repeating bracelet units); 250 brown size 15 (small) seed beads for the periphery of the circles and for the clasp
Time required: 1-2 hours
Techniques: Beadweaving, right angle weave
Difficulty: Easy
Seed bead circle center: There are two possible ways of making this bracelet. The first way is to make the center using a circle of brown seed beads rather than 1 large disk bead. This method is more convenient if you don't have access to a disk bead of the right size to fit between your round yellow beads. This method is also easier to do if you are accustomed to right angle weave. Start by making the circle of brown seed beads in the center. Weave 10 brown size 15 seed beads onto the fishing line, and cross the last bead added to make a circle. Then start right angle weaving your 10 circles of 4 beads each around that inner circle, using the yellow round beads. As a final step, when you are done weaving around the central circle, thread back through the peripheral yellow beads, adding brown size 15 seed beads between them. Basically make 7 repeating interconnected units to make the bracelet. The units are connected via one of the peripheral yellow beads (that bead is the last bead of one circle and the first bead of the next circle).
Proceed to Page 2 for the full pattern of this method!
Disk bead center: The other way of making the sun circle bracelet is to use one single disk-shaped bead in the center of each "circle" unit of the bracelet. The diagram shows that this is one single bead in the center of all the other beads. The disk bead should be relatively flattened (ie, not a ball shape), and should have its hole right in the center like a donut. The disk bead should be of the right dimensions to fit snugly between your round yellow beads. Note that in the diagram, the disk bead appears oblong, but should be a perfect circle in reality. If you can't find a disk bead that fits perfectly between ten yellow round beads, then use a larger or smaller number of yellow round beads in the circle, depending on the diameter of your disk bead. The way you make this bracelet is by right angle weave through the yellow beads and the disk bead (wrap around the disk bead with the fishing line, such that the fishing line appears over top of the disk bead). Basically, for each repeating bracelet unit (sun circle), you will be weaving 10 circles of 4 beads each, except that with the disk, you are going to wrap around it rather than thread through it as you would with a normal bead. Then, once you have completed this, string through the periphery a second time to add all the dark brown seed beads. More detailed instructions for this method are coming soon, with step by step diagrams with arrows and bead numbers. The units are connected via one of the peripheral yellow beads (that bead is the last bead of one circle and the first bead of the next circle).
Proceed to Page 2 for the full pattern of the seed bead method. The diagrams for this method are coming very soon!
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| Allegra on November 28, 2008: | |||
| You tried printing the page as is with the settings like I told you? I wish I could be there with you to show you what I mean. How strange that it works for all the other beading patterns and not this one. Have you gotten someone else to try and help you with it? What browser are you using? I'm using Firefox. Maybe you're using Internet Explorer. Try printing it with firefox (which you can download for free from firefox.com... firefox's print preview is really great and gives you lots of options). | |||
| Manjit on November 17, 2008: | |||
| Hi Allegra, I tryed to do it like you side but I can not do it like that. I can do it from the other pattern's that you have posted put not this one. | |||
| Allegra on November 10, 2008: | |||
| Oh I see. Well, you can totally save yourself the trouble of copying and pasting stuff by printing the page. You go to File >> Print Preview, then click Options. Then tell the computer to print landscape orientation, without the background (makes the background white), and set the width to the paper width. It should come out just fine, I've done it before. You can cut off the comments and other unwanted details of the page in the print preview (eg, if the comments are on page 2, don't print that page). Hope this helps! | |||
| Manjit on November 10, 2008: | |||
| Hi Allegra. I am saying that sometimes we want to print a picture but there is writing around it, so we highlight copy only the picture and take it to microsoft and then we paste it and we only have the picture. But I can not do that here, but the other pattern's we can do that. | |||
| Allegra on November 1, 2008: | |||
| Hi Manjit! Did you know another girl who is 13 years old wants to talk with you on the forum? She posted asking to speak to a girl her own age and I told her about you! The thread is "the 13 year old beader" and you can click "post reply" to reply, you don't have to sign up. Anyways, I don't quite follow what you mean by highlight the pattern. The actual instructions are on page 2. Does that answer the question? | |||
| Manjit on October 27, 2008: | |||
| Hi, Allegra. I am trying to highlight the Beaded Sun Circle Bracelet and I can not highlight it, and i made the 3D bird it looks very nice. | |||
| Allegra on October 25, 2008: | |||
| Hi Kathryn, which boxes do you mean? The pictures printed and not the text? | |||
| Kathryn Corbitt on October 21, 2008: | |||
| I just tried printing the pattern by going to the print preview first. It did cut out all the ads and links but the only problem is that it didnt copy the actual patterns, it just had the boxes which were blank. I think I should be able to recreate your design based on the picture though since it is so clear. Cant wait to try it. Thanks again. | |||
| Allegra on October 12, 2008: | |||
| Hmmm, well I guess you could save the pictures and text to microsoft word or something? I heard that the search engines punish sites for making "printable" pages that are identical copies to their existing pages, so I've always been afraid to try it. They see as you trying to double your text without really adding anything new, and they lower your ranking. The other thing I can suggest is to go to "print preview" in your browser, rather than just going to file>>print, and then clicking on "options" and telling the page to print without the background. For me, it works. I have printed darkly coloured sites before, and it just makes the text black and the background white. Sorry about my layout being busy!! It's hard to fit everything in on one screen! And then you also have to account for different monitor sizes, resolutions, etc. It's hard to please everyone! I hope this helps^^ | |||
| Bonnie Nagle on October 12, 2008: | |||
| Just a thought..is there anyway we can just print out the instructions without all the other ads?...Love the bird...she's adorable ..but to print it out? very expensive. Really like your new bracelet too....you are very generous to do this and we thank you.
Bonnie | |||
| Maria Teresa on October 12, 2008: | |||
| Very beautiful, Allegra! Thank you!!!!!!!! | |||
| Bidiboum on October 12, 2008: | |||
| Hi Allegra!! This bracelet seems very nice - so as your site, by the way...! I visit it as often as I can (my studies are very absorbing... I really miss beading - this is so frustrating!) and I find it greater and greater. You are really doing a generous work, I admire you! I hope everything's going well for you : ) | |||
| Allegra on September 25, 2008: | |||
| Hi Nancy, I'm going to post the full pattern this weekend for sure. I have all the beads in my diagram drawn, just need to add the steps and arrows. I posted the bead set up so that you can see how the beads are laid out in each sun circle bracelet unit. In the meantime, finish the pearl necklace and this one should be ready by the time you are done! LOL | |||
| Nancy on September 24, 2008: | |||
| Hi Allegra, have you posted the pattern for this bracelet. It is beautiful and I would like to try to make it. I love your forum.
Nancy | |||
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