I’ve always loved orange soda – which one is your favorite? Probably Orange Crush for me. However, orange and yellow aren’t my favorite colors to wear – I tend to go for deeper jewel tones. I had these orange beads in my stash so decided to use up some of them, and actually bought my first size 15 Miyuki seed beads for this pattern.

I did end up remaking this bracelet; I used white Nymo to begin with and even after reinforcement it was floppy, so once I got some Fireline and learned of the difference between the two types of thread, I redid this one with Fireline in Crystal and it was much improved.

This bracelet is stitched with size 11 Czech (orange) and size 15 Miyuki (yellow) glass seed beads, 4mm orange crystal bicone beads and Fireline in Crystal.

18cm total length, 2.4cm wide.

Pattern: “Crystal Bracelet” from “Beaded Allure” by Kelly Wiese.