Earn Your Fashion Stripes By Creating Corinne Bradd’s Pretty Fabric Bangle Designs

What you need...

• BEADS Round, gold, 4mm x 16, Rhinestones, sew on claw set, 6mm x 19, Seeds, pink, Studs, flat-backed, 'nail heads'
  
  FINDINGS Bangles: narrow; medium; wide, Thread: sewing; embroidery, six strand; three shades of green; mauve; variegated pink, DMC Color Variations, Ribbon: 25mm, pink gingham; striped; narrow, spotty, Crochet lace, wide, pink, Ricrac braid, mini, green, Fabric, cotton: printed; pastel floral
  
  TOOLS Tape, doublesided, Glue, PVA, Shears, pinking
  

instructions

1. Diamanté Bangle - 1. Cut a piece of cotton floral fabric twice the width of a medium bangle and slightly longer than the circumference. Stitch the raw edges together with slip stitch inside the bangle, folding under the raw edge at the end of the strip.
   
   2. Split a length of embroidery thread in half and stitch five times around the bracelet to make a band of thread. Move 7mm along and repeat. Continue to make bands of cotton all around the circumference. Knot another length of thread and insert the needle into the fabric under one of the bands. Wrap the thread twice around the strands and stitch back into the fabric, bringing the needle out underneath the next band along. Wrap all the strands in this way.
   
   3. Cut a second narrow strip of fabric and place a length of double-sided tape along the middle of the wrong side. Fold the edges over the tape to create a neat strip and fix inside the bangle with more double-sided tape to cover all raw edges. Use strong sewing thread to stitch 6mm claw set rhinestones to the centre of the bangle between each cotton band, passing the thread under the fabric to the next space each time.
   

2. Make it yours - Don’t hold back by covering the whole bracelet with the same materials. Divide the bangle into sections and mix and match fabrics.