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DIY Woven Charm Bracelet

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You might remember our woven chain bracelet tutorial, one of our favorite DIYs to date. As we’re starting to get a taste of spring, we’re revisiting this oldie but goodie with some minor adjustments – this time with delicate chain and the addition of mini skull charms. So grab some of that embroidery floss and let’s get weaving!

You’ll need:

Start by cutting 8 strands of embroidery floss, with each strand measuring four times the length of the curb chain. Knot all the threads together, leaving about an inch and a half of slack. Separate the bunch into 2 groups of 4 strands. To easily weave the threads through the links of the chain, sandwich them between bobby pins. Clip the ends with a wire cutter if they are too big to go through the chain links. Lay the threads to the left of the bracelet and pull the right set from under the first link.

Pull the strands through the link and over the top of the left side. Lay the left set over the right set.

Pull it from under the same link and through.

Drap the set over the top left and now lay the other set on top. Pull the top set from under the second link and through.

Once it’s pulled through the link, cross it over to the left and place the other set on top. Pull the top set from under the second link and through again. Notice each set goes through a link once – so twice total. Keep braiding.

Knot the strands together at the end and trim away any excess floss.

Thread a skull bead onto a headpin. I added a small gold bead because the opening of the skull bead was too large. Using chain nose pliers, fold the headpin 45 degrees to the left. While pinching the headpin, wrap the pin around the right side of the pliers.

Hold the loop tightly with the pliers and wrap the rest of the pin around the base of the loop 2-3 times. Trim away any excess wire.

Space out the charms and attach them with to the opposite side of the chain part of the bracelet with jump rings.

Continue adding charms. Add a clasp to the end of the bracelet with a large jump ring. Add a large jump ring to the other side to complete the clasp.

Woven. Charmed. And done!

(images by HonestlyWTF)

74 Comments

  14. Jessica    March 5, 2013

    I love love love the skulls!! This is the first DIY bracelet I’ve seen that I actually really want to make. Time to buy those skull beads!

  16. Leslie    March 5, 2013

    So….I’m way too old to pull of skulls, but I love the idea of this tutorial. And it looks so easy. I might have to find some other sort of charm that I can pull off, because I’d love to give this a try!

  30. Maija    March 5, 2013

    Love the DIY bracelet and also the gold “Hook” type bracelet…where can I find one of those?

  44. Dane    March 6, 2013

    c’ est vraiment excellent j’ adore tu trouves ou tes petites têtes ? j’ adore bravo et merci pour le pas a pas

  45. Phoebe    March 6, 2013

    I love all your DIY bracelet tutorials however I’m based in London so can you or any of your readers recommend a good (cheap) online bead etc store like baublesandbeads.com in the UK please?
    Phoebe

  51. Miss Kathy    March 11, 2013

    Very clever idea, when I found the pic on pintrest I thought crochet, so I wonder if you tried it using a crochet hook instead of the bobby pins? Will definitely add it to my to do list, thanks.

  52. conchita    March 13, 2013

    THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARE AND NO BE EGOIST.LOVE IT

  53. Livia    March 15, 2013

    hello!! it is reallly awesome!!!
    can I download the picture? wanna share it with world :) )

  57. Kimi    March 21, 2013

    Everything you make is just perfect and I love them!!!! Where do you get the materials to make the bracelets from??????

  58. Giselle-Wicked jypsi    March 24, 2013

    You have the most thorough tutorials I have ever seen – they are so easy to follow with the step-by-step pictures. I can’t wait to get started making all of these – THANK YOU!!!!

  60. E    April 15, 2013

    I just love this it’s gorgeous! Thanks for the tutorial i love your DIYs! But how big were the links on the curb chain?

  61. Hope R    April 27, 2013

    This is a great idea and my 13 year old and her friends love to make these. I did go one step further with the curb chain since they are gold or silver plated and seem to fade or on some people leave “green” on their arms due to the curb chain not being real gold. I took straight pins and tacked the chain to a piece of styrafoam (spelled wrong lol) I used a 2 inch strip so that once I pinned the curb chain all of the chain dangled down. I let the girls pick what color they wanted and i used spray paint and painted each chain. JoAnn fabrics has some great colors in the small spray can. Neons were the girls favorites, but they also have bright pastels, golds, antiques and silvers. Once I got the curb chains painted and dried I put 3 coats of clear fingernail polish on them so they wouldn’t peel, chip or cause any allergic reactions. Once they were completely dry the girls went to town! We also did some in rainbows of neon colors by making our strings shorter and working in the colors into the curb chain as we went. My daughter made her curb chain a neon green and she chose neon yellow, neon pink, neon green and neon orange as her embroidery floss colors. As we weaved down the chain we added the different colors. GREAT DIY project and like I said all the girls LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!!! thanks a bunch and keep those ideas coming!!!

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