Bangles

First posted on Blogger 11/05/25.

I could feel myself getting an itch to make bangles. I wanted skinny bangles that could be stacked. My preferred method for bangles is to use 16-gauge wire cut straight from the coil, it is usually just the right size. I curl one end into a loop thread the beads on, loop the other end and join with a jump ring, usually with a charm of some kind attached.

Obviously, I got carried away.

I started with beads from kits by ‘Jewelry Made By Me’, which I bought in T.K.Maxx last Halloween. The kits come with beading elastic to make stretch bracelets but I don’t like wearing those, they’re too close fitting for me. So I made bangles with little words on, I made one with my name on because I never find stuff with my name on it. (In reposting I have just realised that none of these have my name on, I am definitely not named Infinite, that would be weird).

Then I thought I would really like a bangle made using the beads from a random mix I found in a charity shop. Then I thought I wanted one with different pearly beads. Then a black one, a silver one, a brassy one. Then I remembered the strings of marbled beads that I had stashed.

In all this frenzy of bangle making I also made a couple of pairs of hoopy earrings which I make in the same way I make the bangles but with the wire shaped around something smaller. I tend to use paper beads for these as they weigh next to nothing.

Guess who is now on a frenzy of paper bead making?