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Step 4

Repeat steps 2 and 3 until your bracelet is the desired length (remembering to allow 2cm for the clasp and finishing). Using all the crystals listed in materials needed will give a 19.2cm (7.6") finished bracelet. Work on the basis of 15 crystals per inch.

Step 5

When you get to your desired length, pass back through the next bicone and pick up a seed bead. Pass through the next bicone along and pick up another seed bead. Continue adding seed beads between the bicones until you get to the end.

Step 6

When you get to the end, turn your work over and pass through the central bicone. Repeat along the other side until you are back at the beginning of the strap. Thread through the loop on your clasp.

Step 7

On exiting the last blue bicone, pick up 1 pink bicone, 3 seed beads and one side of the clasp. Pass back through the last seed bead added. Pick up 2 seed beads and 1 pink bicone. Pass back through the central pink bicone on the strap you just made.

Step 8

Pass back through all the beads just added to reinforce the clasp. On exiting the pink bicone added in step 7, pick up a seed bead and pass through the next blue bicone along. Pass through the other 2 blue bicones and pick up another seed bead. Pass through the next bicone, seeds, clasp and seeds again for extra reinforcement. Weave back through the strap in any direction, knotting in several placed along the way and cut the thread.

Step 9

Thread your needle with the tail left from the beginning. Repeat steps 7 and 8, remembering to use the correct colour bicones to continue the chevron pattern correctly.

Step 10

Attach a charm to the ring of one side of the magnetic clasp using a jump ring to finish.