How to tie .8mm Stretch Cord
How to Secure a Stretch Cord Bracelet
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hi this is kat with beadaholique.com
breaking or wearing out over time and
that can happen but I'm going to show
you a couple little tricks that I've
learned over the years that really help
reinforce them so we are going to be
using the beadsmith opal on here and
this is our stretch jewelry fiber I have
some 8 millimeter wood beads here and
these are gonna help you just sort of
demonstrate the technique but please
feel free to use whatever beads that you
want I'm gonna be using a big eye needle
and I brought this out because what's
really great is in the pack you get four
of them so you can really utilize these
for a lot of different projects but just
to kind of give you a little sneak peek
here this has a really big eye in fact
it's the whole length of the needle so
this is really great and easy for
stringing alright so I have a pair of
snips you can also use scissors as well
and then we're gonna be using a little
bit of glue and for this I recommend
getting the gs hypo cement alright so if
you have your little supplies here let's
go ahead and get started so we're gonna
begin by taking some of our opal on here
and we're just gonna get a good long
length because what we're gonna do is
we're gonna string through and then
string back around so you want to make
sure that if you're doing a 7 inch
bracelet you want to get 14 but you also
want to get a little extra because we're
gonna be doing some knots there as well
so I'm actually gonna leave mine on the
spool and then that's an easier judge so
what I'm gonna do is open my eye needle
slip on the opal on now the big eye
needle does have a tendency to wear the
opal on just a little bit because it can
be a little sharp there so you don't
want to place it halfway down because
you'll end up sort of sacrificing that
opal on but you can place it maybe an
inch or two down from there cuz we're
just gonna end up cutting that off
anyway alright so once you've gotten
that ready to go we're just gonna string
up our beads and go ahead and send them
all the way down your stretch cord there
now we love using opal on it's the best
that we found it has the most
flexibility and string
so if you are looking to purchase some
stretch cord we do sell it at
beadaholique.com and we saw many
different sizes of spools so if you're
just getting into it you just want to
try it we do sell small spools we also
sell big bulk packs so it is whatever
you guys need we've got it all right
okay so now I've gotten all of my beads
strung there so I'm going to kind of
move that a good ways down there because
what I want to do is I'm gonna go ahead
and kind of make it curved there and I'm
gonna take this and bring it all the way
back to the front there so I'm gonna
actually scooch it down just a little
bit further cuz you're just kind of
eyeballing this obviously it's going to
be a little bit tighter when you wear it
but just to kind of eyeball okay that'll
get me around at least once more and
plenty of room for knotting all right so
now just same as we did before just go
through all those beads just one more
time and this is where that big eye
needle is really helpful it just finds
its way straight through there and you
can just see that it just kind of zips
up there at the end and these wood beads
are really great I love the colors and
this is a nice multi pack of colors so
if you did want to incorporate some wood
beads into your stretch bracelet perhaps
you want to include some other beads as
well this is great because you'll get
the chance to add you know maybe just a
yellow or a black or you know a white or
a light light brown so you have lots of
options there alright and I'm almost
back to the beads that I strung so I'm
going to come all the way back to the
front and now you want to be coming out
the same side so let me kind of flip
this around here for you alright so I've
gone through once and through twice so I
think I'm safe to clip off my opal on
now and we're just gonna set that aside
so now what we're gonna do is I'm gonna
actually just remove this because I
don't want to poke myself we're gonna
use it again in a minute so now you take
both of these ends and you're just gonna
tie a nice overhand knot but before you
do that go ahead and try to scooch them
down now one thing that happens a lot
with stretch is that you get it too
tight and then the beads kind of crinkle
you don't want that you want it to kind
of feel a little bit loose not too loose
where there's gonna be any thread
showing but a little bit sort of
malleable so what we're gonna do is
we're just gonna take this and we're
just going to tie one
over him not right at the top there and
go ahead and pull that down and we want
to give it a nice little tug again
making sure that our beads aren't
crunching together so now we're gonna
tie another little knot at the top so
what we're gonna do now is I'm gonna tie
a third nap but I'm gonna do it a little
differently because I want to catch that
bottom cord there because if you see the
knots are on the top not the bottom
there so what we're gonna do is we're
gonna kind of link these together so I'm
gonna take one of my cords and go down
and sort of come up through there and it
makes a little loop and I'm just gonna
string my cord through that loop and
what that does is that catches that
second cord there so let me give it a
little tug and now you can see that we
have those cords tied together so just
repeat that with the other end just the
same way so you kind of go through the
center come up and go through your
little loop and tie a little knot
alright so now that we have a nice good
knot that's happening there nice and
thick so now what we want to do is we're
gonna take our big eye needle and open
it there we go
string it onto one side there and I'm
gonna take this side and I'm gonna go
through this first bead here and I'm
gonna go through the second bead all
right go ahead and take that off and you
guessed it we're just gonna repeat that
on the other side now you can try to get
your stretch cord through there but
sometimes it can be a little little
flimsy so if you are better working
without the needle you can do that as
well alright so like we did on the other
side we're going through one bead and
going through two so now you can see
what we have going on here is we have
our not there in the center and our two
cords coming out here to the side now
it's time to add a little dab of glue
I'm just going to use a little baggie
just to protect my
surface here so the great thing about GS
hypo cement is that it has this great
little needle on the end that the glue
comes out of so you can really get it
nice and tight in there all right so I'm
gonna kind of separate the beads there
and you can see my big knot that's
happening there and I'm just gonna get a
little bit of glue kind of getting it
all around there just a little bit all
the way around the knot there we go all
right all right I'm gonna set that down
real quick now here's the trick
take one of your beads and slide it over
the knot and that is going to be your
closure so now you can kind of let
everybody come together and this is why
you keep those sides out there to the
side so that Brown bead right there has
the glue inside of it so he's gonna kind
of mold everything together so now the
trick is to let this sit for I'd say at
least 24 hours because you really want a
nice strong bond there but what we've
done is we've created a little knot and
we've sort of hidden it inside one of
our little beads there so I'm not gonna
stretch it out because I don't want that
to happen right now but I am gonna go
ahead and clip off the little sides here
if you want for a little extra
reinforcement if you are using a heavier
stone let's say you're doing this with
gemstones what you can do is you can
take your little cord here and you can
actually kind of just repeat almost the
whole little process that I just did of
taking it going through one bead there
we'll go through here and then we're
gonna kind of come down and around and
make a little loop and tie another
little knot there so you can kind of
repeat that process if you want and pull
it through and add a little bit of glue
to a secondary knot
you do not have to but if you are using
like I said heavier gemstones that could
be an option for you as well because we
want your stretch bracelets to have a
nice beautiful long life to them all
right so be sure to let that dry 24
hours and then it is all yours to wear
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