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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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