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How to Make a Spiral Chain Bracelet

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Hello! It’s Bev again from Linkouture with another jewelry making tutorial. I’ve showed you how to make a spiral pendant necklace and matching earrings, and now I’m going to teach you how to make a coordinating spiral chain bracelet!

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial. Makes a lovely handmade Christmas gift as well!

It has a wonderful weight to it and looks really elegant, but is surprisingly easy to make (especially once you get the hang of making the spirals and connecting them to each other. For this bracelet you will need:

  • 2 pairs of flat nose pliers
  • large jump rings in multiples of 5, depending on how long you want your bracelet to be (I use 18-gauge 7.0 mm inner diameter sterling silver rings)
  • small jump rings (I use 18-gauge 4.5 mm ID sterling silver jump rings)
  • 1 lobster clasp

You can vary make this bracelet using whatever metal you prefer — I just happen to prefer sterling silver!

Jewelry Making Tutorial: Spiral Chain Bracelet

To get started, take the five largest jump rings (7.0 mm) and close one of them (you know it’s closed well when it makes a click sound and the two ends are flush). Take a second one and loop it through the first jump ring and close it tight.

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial.

Hold the two jump rings so that they are flat against each other with a small opening between them, kind of like you are making a venn diagram. Take a third jump ring and loop it through that opening where first two jump rings overlap. Now close up that jump ring.

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial.

You’re going to do the same thing again, but hold two of the rings together and make a venn diagram with the third ring. Link the fourth large jump ring through this opening and close it up.

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial.

One last time. Hold three of the jump rings together and make a venn diagram with the fourth jump ring. Link the fifth and last jump ring through that opening close it up. (Sorry that first picture is a bit fuzzy — it’s hard to photograph your own hands!)

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial.

Make a bunch of these spirals — you want them together to just about fit around your wrist — and then connect them with the small (4.5mm) jump rings. Loop the small jump ring through the center of each spiral and then close it securely, making sure that that it doesn’t go through any of the individual rings of the spiral. Repeat this with a second small jump ring so that two small jump rings connect the two spirals like so:

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial.

Continue connecting the spirals together until it just smaller than the desired length of your bracelet.

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial.

One one end of the bracelet, use one of the small jump rings to attach your lobster clasp.

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial.

On the other end attach a single jump ring. I like using a slightly larger one, but you can use one of the small ones. Close up tight and attach it with two other jump rings.

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial.

Ta-dah, you’re done! Now time to enjoy wearing your beautiful new bracelet. This makes a lovely Christmas gift for someone special as well.

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You can purchase the kit for this bracelet if you’d like, or even the bracelet itself in the Linkouture Etsy shop if you’re pressed for time. Feel free to peruse my blog for more free jewelry making tutorials as well!

Make your own stunning spiral chain bracelet with this free and easy diy jewelry making tutorial. Makes a lovely handmade Christmas gift as well!

 

Quinn Caudill

Tuesday 13th of October 2015

Great craft. My daughters would love it. Pinned! Thanks for sharing with us at #Throwback Thursday link party. Please join us again next week and invite your friends to join.

Bev Feldman @ Linkouture

Tuesday 13th of October 2015

I hope they enjoy it! :-)

tamaralikecamera

Thursday 1st of October 2015

I don't have very good diligence or patience, but I bet with the right inspiration, I could. I really love the look of it. Just.. all of it. So nice.

Bev Feldman @ Linkouture

Friday 2nd of October 2015

I bet you could too! Once you get started it's pretty easy to make it since it repeats itself over and over :-)

Janine Huldie

Tuesday 29th of September 2015

Another gorgeous addition here and just love Bev's jewelry so much. So very happy to see her sharing a new tutorial here now ;)

Michelle Nahom

Tuesday 29th of September 2015

I love her jewelry too, and I actually have one of her bracelets and love it! I'd love to try making some of her creative jewelry making ideas as well! This would be such a great Christmas gift!