bracelet Gertrude

This is a simple effect - but often "the simpler, the better"!

Only one shuttle, loaded with pearls.
I used swarovski pearls, 4mm, and thread is silver Sanbest (3 strands).

20 pearls are sufficient for a bracelet length of 18cm.

Start with a ring of 12 ds, leaving a short tail, that will be hidden inside the first pearl with the help of a beading needle.

Slide the first pearl. (*) Then, for each bead:
1) tie a simple knot and move it closer to the bead;
2) tat a ring: 4ds, 1 first half stitch, picot, 1 second half stitch, 4ds; the picot will naturally drop, but if it doesn't you can help it by blocking it in its right position, at the centre of the closed ring. 

3) put the shuttle's thread behind the ring and take a loop through the drop picot, from back to front, then take the loop around the shuttle and the ring like it was an sssr.

Pull the loop but let the knot trapped in the loop.

Slide another pearl and repeat from (*) along the entire length. I finished with another ring of 12ds and added a clasp.

(If you are wondering who Gertrude is, she is a character of The Betrothed, the Manzoni novel. Well, the pattern needed a fancy name, doesn't it!)

I made a video and shared in fb, but I am trying to upload it here too.

In case it won't be visible, here it is the link to my post in Fb, instructions and 2 videos are under the post, my first comments: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5482873971745281&id=100000681988799

Ciao,
Ninetta

AOSJ for adding beads in split ring

Vintage patterns have always something to teach. I learned this join when tatting a pattern from 1923!

I love playing with techniques, just like in a jigsaw puzzle where pieces are all mixed up till someone puts one next to another and they perfectly match. Plus, there are many ways to do the same thing, we are spoiled for choice! 

This time I'd like sharing one more way to put a bead in a split ring, I adjusted the method that I explained here: Anne Orr's Slip Join (AOSJ) – pics 43 & 44

 

bracelets with beads put inside split rings with the AOSJ

Look at next pictures, follow the sequence of steps from left to right and up to down. Split rings are 10ds on both sides (red and yellow thread), that is: 10ds on the normal stitch side, then 10ds on the reversed stitch side.

I started the split ring. Then the side with normal stitches temporarily stops at the middle point (I tatted 5ds) and I tatted half of the second side (5rs, reverse order). 

At this point I added the bead, in this way: on the second side of the split ring, make the second half stitch unflipped (first pic on the upper left), pick a bead and put it on the loop formed by the leg of that half stitch.

(That is very similar to what I shared for normal rings in one drawing here: https://flic.kr/p/mTMZeB , but in that case the loop is joined to the core thread in a different way)

Then, I passed the core shuttle thread through the loop pulled from the bead, then I continued with the rest of the first side of the split ring. In that way the shuttle’s thread is trapped into the loop coming from the bead, but it is still free to slide.

Then look at the upper right picture of previous collage: pulling (not too tight) the second shuttle thread (yellow), the loop inside the bead disappears and you see from the other 2 pictures that I resumed the second side of the split ring and tatted the remaining stitches. 

Close the split ring and that's all.

I added one bead, but with the same method you can add many beads as you like, for example in the next pic I added 3 little beads. Of course, the stitch count in the split ring should be right to fit the size of the bead or the number of little beads you choose.

There isn't any difference between front and back: 

I hope that you like the AOSJ and I think that it has a lot of potential, still to be discovered.

Update (July 2025) - link to video: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aKqdDaRuX1Go188HR2gC2xU5LHCToOS3/view?usp=drivesdk

Ciao,

Ninetta 

Eleonore, that's difficult!

Despite the name of my blog, it happens that a pattern can be difficult, for many reasons: the stitch count is not easy to memorize, the direction of work changes often, tension is an issue, switch shuttles is needed but not clear where... Or all these together!

Eleonore put me on test. I'm not yet sure that I gave it justice. The red and ocher is already finished, I added a tail and it's about to go live alone, in one of my mum's book. You can start CTM, all one colour, but I chose to tat it in two colours to better follow the pattern. Thread is DMC Special Dentelles size 80. The pattern is the #24 in the "Schiffchen-Spitzen" book, by Eleonore Endrucks, from 1920, it is available here: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/publicindex.html

I've uploaded my diagram in Flickr (click to see a better image):

As in previous two edgings, there is block tatting and thrown off rings, that makes it a 2-shuttles pattern. In the original, as far as I understood and tatted, the first corner of the block tatting is done simply switching shuttles, then tat 1 ds, leave a very small picot and go on. The whole pattern is completed after a finishing external round, only chains, and I regret not having left another very small picot after the point where I switched shuttles, becouse I could have better joined the outer round.

In next picture, one of those corners is pointed by the blue arrow:

Next is a bracelet, with metallic Sanbest thread, 3 strands, color is a gold-pink hue, number 133. The coloured swarovski beads, that you can see in the first picture above, are only laid on top. I still don't know how to add a clasp, I think that I need a wide type of clasp, but at the moment I haven't any at home.

Ciao,
Ninetta

UPDATE (19Jan2022) - pattern in pdf (errors corrected) :

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpHou6AOWM3LZJVbEMNB_gurWqtjazRx/view

m'ama non m'ama - beaded daisy chain

Daisies symbolize new beginnings! Enjoy the Summer! 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

"M'ama non m'ama" in Italian means "he loves me, he loves me not" and it's the famous Valentine's Day game (read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_loves_me..._he_loves_me_not).

Who didn't pluck petals while saying that?

For my "m'ama non m'ama bracelets, I've used Sanbest metallic threads, seed beads are rocailles and miyuki delica 15/0. For the centre of the daisies, I've used Gutermann rocailles 9/0, Swarovski bicone beads and pearls 4mm.

The pattern works well with any thread of your choice.For this tutorial, I’ve used DMC Cebelia n.10. 

LEGEND
ds : double tatting stitch
SR : Split Ring

Wound 2 shuttles CTM, loading many seed beads in both shuttles (for petals).

Start the very first ring with 12 ds, with or without beads.

If you start the very first ring with 1 bead in the loop around the hand, then close the ring and the bead will be trapped at the base, between the first ds and the last ds. (see next collage, pic A)

If you start the very first ring without beads, you need to tat the second, that is a split ring, with one bead in the loop around the hand, so then when you close the split ring the bead will be trapped at the base, between the first ds and the last ds. But that will be clearer at the end of this post.

All subsequent tatted elements are split rings.

Bracelets have two elements: "the beaded diamond" and "the beaded daisy", tatted alternatively, in the sequence you like.

The beaded diamond:

SR:
- Move one bead from the first shuttle near the previous ring (pic B)
- Start the split ring with the first shuttle, with 2 beads in the loop (pic B)
- Tat 6ds. (In some bracelets I tatted SR with 8ds/8ds, but everything is still valid).
- Move one bead from the second shuttle near the previous ring (pic C).
- Move one bead in the loop near the very first ds (pic C).
- With the second shuttle, tat 6ds on the second half of the split ring (pic D)
Now, if you close the ring, the last bead in the loop will be trapped at the base (pic E)

(I designed a similar pattern in 2013 and shared a video in a tatting group in Facebook. Since then, sadly that group has been deleted.)

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UPDATE 31/12/2020: 

The same beaded diamond element is in the cover and in more patterns in the book "Tatted Earrings & More", by Rozella Florence Linden(aka Ruth Perry) (2016)

That book can be found in https://hhtatting.com/

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The beaded daisy (two SRs are required to see one daisy emerging):

FIRST SR: (see below, pic 1)

1. Start the split ring with the first shuttle, with 2 beads in the loop.

2. Tat 8ds. (In some bracelets I tatted SR with 6ds/6ds, but everything is still valid).

3. Move one bead in the loop near the very first ds.

4. With the second shuttle, tat 8ds on the second half of the split ring.

Here it is where the beaded daisy start:

5. Pick one loose bead in contrasting colour, for the centre of the daisy, and pass the crochet hook through the bead, then take the loop's thread back through the bead the opposite direction till it is big enough to pass your shuttle through it (see below, picture 2).

6. Move enough beads (3 in my example) from the first shuttle near the last tatted ds (pic 3). (**)
7. Pass the first shuttle through the loop just formed in step 5. (pic 3)
8. Slide the centre bead onto the loop, toward the first shuttle's thread, and push it till the loop around the hand is completely free again (pic 4)

9. Now, close the SR and the last bead in the loop will be trapped at the base. (pic 5)

10. Pull the first shuttle to "close" the first half side of the daisy (pic 6).

(Note that the thread loop inside the SR is blocked between the orange bead and the first side of the SR.)

SECOND SR: 

11. Start the split ring with the first shuttle, with 2 beads in the loop (pic 7)

12. Before starting the very first ds, join the thread: that is pull a loop of the thread around the hand through the very small space between the seed beads and the centre bead, pass the shuttle through it and tension (pic 8).

13. Tat 8ds. (In some bracelets I tatted SR with 6ds/6ds, but everything is still valid).

14. Move enough beads (3 in my example) from the second shuttle near the previous ring (see it on the left of pic 1 and also the next picture below, with the Swarovski bicone). (**)
15. Move one bead in the loop near the very first ds.
16. With the second shuttle, tat 8ds on the second half of the split ring (pic 1)

Now, if you close the split ring, the last bead in the loop will be trapped at the base (like in pic E) and the next element will be a beaded diamond. 

If you don't close the split ring, you can start another beaded daisy, restarting from FIRST SR, step 5 (like in pic 2).

(**)For the centre of the daisy with Gutermann rocailles 9/0, I've moved 3 beads in step 6 and 14.

With Swarovski bicone beads and pearls 4mm, I've moved 5 beads in step 6 and 14.

Don't forget step 12!!!

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UPDATE (thanks to a comment below by Wally): Bina Madden's version is similar (http://www.paradisetreasures.com/pdf/beadeddaisiesbtwsr.pdf). There are some minor variation in the construction.

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Ciao,

Ninetta

tiffany bezel

That's a nice way to tat around a rivoli. I learned that the "Tiffany setting" is the most famous engagement ring, since 1886. That one with the diamond, of course.

In my tatted version with the much cheaper rivoli, I have two rounds: front side there is a ring with only treble tatting stitches and the second round has rings on the back of the rivoli.

I didn't cut the thread for the entire length of the bracelet:

Thread is Sanbest metallic 4 strands, colour number 108. I used rivoli Swarovski 14mm.

I'm still playing with this method, I will share it as soon as I'm more confident that it works well.

In the next pendant I put the bezel in the centre and then I tatted 3 repetitions of the square pattern "oh, sugar sugar!" (visual pattern is in Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/HRYJaF)

Thread for that necklace is Sanbest 3 strands, colour is called Chameleon, a multicolored green and gold, mixed metallic and polyester. The rivoli is a beautiful "Crystal Sunshine DeLite" 14mm. Little beads are miyuki rocailles 15/0, copper.

Ciao,

Ninetta

UPDATE: Please refer to the page "Treble Tatting Stitch - Summary" - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_95.html for any info about treble tatting stitches, thank you.

again

I've been tatting bracelets again 

Thread is Sanbest metallic polyester thread,  pattern is very simple and similar to old edgings, but I've tatted it including both double and treble tatting stitches. 

Ciao, 

Ninetta

multicolored

I'm playing with some new threads, probably you've already seen my photos in Facebook.

That is a multicoloured Sanbest thread, it looks completely different on the spool, so I'm very happy with the result.

My pattern up there mixes double stitches and treble tatting stitches and the section with trebles is a chain, with the under-over effect that makes it look like rings. I used the same effect in the snowflake with the ice-drop in the centre (here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2020/01/shine-light-on-tds.html)

I'm enjoying playing with this metallic Sanbest thread, these are other things I tatted with it:

That is a module, pattern is by Eva Antonucci.

Those bracelets are just lines of split rings, beads are preloaded in both shuttles. Pattern is a repetition of split rings tatted in this way: move 5 beads in the loop around  your hand, then tat 6tds with beads in between (move from the hand), then the other side is 8ds, very small picot, 3ds. Close it, letting the two last ds and tds stitches very close to each other, then, when it's closed, the core thread is near to the very small picot. To continue, lock join the core thread to the small picot, reverse work, switch shuttles and go on with the next split ring.

If you share any of my patterns, please put a link to this blog, don't copy and past pictures. I hope you understand, thank you in advance.

Ciao,
Ninetta

variations on the theme

In Priscilla#3, figure 29, there's an edging that is very nice to tat.
Way back in 1924, they wrote that edgings would be perfect for pillow cases and sheets, but... in case you have a sparkling thread to use up, some edgings and trimmings are perfect for bracelets, too.

It is pretty easy: all chains. Each chain is the same number of stitches and the join is at about a third of the chain. In the "all ds" pattern, you can vary the number of ds, or you can add picots or beads, then you can change the position of the join, to obtain a wide range of similar patterns.

I tatted some variations, but I substituted double stitches with treble tatting stitches and now I wish I could try all possible combinations!

Thread is metallic Sanbest thread, they sold 3,4 and 6 strands, the thickness of the silver in the picture is 4 strands and - my opinion- it is like a Liz cotton size 20. The other two are 6 strands, that are like a cotton Cebelia size 10. In the Facebook group, friends wrote that the 6 strands thread is like a Liz metallic size 20, but I don't have any of that, to compare myself.

Ciao,
Ninetta

how to drive me tats

Last week I shared a method for stacking normal rings, with a twisted effect, that is obtained by shifting beads a few double stitches each ring and by the use of the down join.

Sue (God's Kid: http://hiskid66.blogspot.com/) suggested that, adding more beads, we could make tatted versions of bracelets similar to Jane McLellan's crocheted beaded bracelets.
Of course, many trials and errors and many neurons will burn before getting something nearly looking like this: https://janemactats.blogspot.com/2019/10/flowers.html

Well, the title here gives you a rough idea of the current situation here, especially after that I invited my friends in Facebook to play with me the "tatted beaded rope" game!

Muskaan already joined the game (https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2019/10/tat-beaded-rope.html), and also Elisabetta De Napoli (she has a Facebook's profile) who shared a picture with her lovely version. I hope there will be someone else! Will you let me drive alone?

At first I tried to play with normal rings, all stacked. I thought I could have used only one joint. But, I had to join in every beaded picot, otherwise the spiral opens, showing the twisted effect of the pattern that is in previous post. (Note to myself: That is another nice effect, to be tried again later.)

Another problem are beads: I shuttle tat, then all beads must be loaded in the only one shuttle required to tat the all-rings pattern. Minimum 4 beads for each ring. They are a lot! (I like having them handy on the thread, instead of putting them on picots.)

Then, because I just wanted to try a version with rings, I switched to mock rings (they're the rings normally tatted by needle tatters): in this case I need to load almost all beads on the ball thread.

The idea  is similar to previous "stacked development" bracelet, but with mock rings.
I loaded some beads in the shuttle, and then put one in the loop needed for the mock ring:

Here you are, quite a pattern:

Start with a normal ring, as in previous pattern: 8ds, bead on picot (hang loose), 8ds, close.

Mock rings: 1ds, bead on picot (hang loose), 1ds, down join in previous ring, 1ds (((... repeat 1ds, join,1ds, after each bead... ))); end with a down join and 1ds, plus one first half stitch.

Each mock ring in my example in the picture has 8 beads in the ball thread and one in the shuttle loop.

When closing the mock ring, pay attention to the position of the bead in the loop, that need to be positioned on the outside part of the rope.

When joining, turn previous ring counterclockwise, on the back of current ring (the beginning ring is away from the tatter). I used the down join showed in the video shared last week, for stacked rings.

Actually, I'm sharing the method that is the application of a technique, not a real pattern. Be creative and tat your own version! 🥰👍

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My general thoughts about tatted beaded rope:

- there isn't only one technique to obtain the rope;
- stacked rings (or chains) are not a "new thing" in tatting;
- each method can lead to many different patterns (just change stitches' count, number of beads, position of beads,...);
- how to join, it counts;
- how you tat, it can change how you join (if you take your tatting with the beginning away from you or toward you);
- how you load beads will change the pattern (on the ball thread, on the shuttle, over picot), take you to different patterns.

That's not all folks and that is sufficient to drive every tatter "nuts"!

In next posts I will show the rest of my journey, that has been leading me to learn old and new techniques, and that really is making me crazy!

Ciao,
Ninetta

stacked development

They're just stacked rings, one ring above the previous, but I've used "down joins".

If you think that a join is just a join, that's the moment to read Muskaan's blog post (but don't forget to come back here, lol!): https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2016/03/demystifying-joins.html

This is a one-shuttle pattern, only rings. Basically, all rings are 8, bead, 3+8.

I always feel concerned when I come up with such simple effects, worrying about having re-invented that famous wheel, that one already invented by another tatter. (A very similar spiralling effect is in the trunk pattern by Muskaan, but tatted with split rings, here: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2016/12/miniature-conifer.html) (Another very similar by MiKyeong Ha, but tatted with chains, here:  https://entrelanzaderas.blogspot.com/2013/12/anillos-navidenos-christmas-rings.html)

In any case, I found this pattern by myself, not fast though. Now I need to find a fast way to recover beads.

I tatted a length sufficient for a bracelet. The spiral development emerged only when I loaded beads in two colours.

Thread is dmc Diamant 100% polyester, D5200. I've tried with cotton, with Finca gold (two strands) and with Combi 0.4 and Penny 20 by "Fili & Gioielli a chiacchierino", they're all good, too.

Pattern (only one shuttle and beads):
Beads are all pre-loaded, I've used a mix of 11/0 and 9/0, but I've lost the brand's label.
For the spiral effect, load beads alternating colours and finish with 2 beads of the same colour.

ds = double stitch.
B = bead on picot
vsp = very small picot
down join = pull a loop through the picot, down from front to back
Rings are numbered, that is R1 is the first ring, R2 the second, etc.

Important: beads should hang loose on picots, then when putting any bead on picot, the picot is wider than the bead size.

Ring1 : put 1 bead in the loop around the hand;  8ds, B, 8ds. Close ring.

Ring2 : put 2 beads in the loop around the hand;  8ds, B, 3ds, turn previous ring counterclockwise, on the back of current ring, then make a down join (to the beaded picot, previous ring), then 8ds. Finish with an additional first half stitch. Close ring (the second bead is trapped at the base).

Ring3 and every next rings : equal to Ring2
Repeat rings for the entire length of the bracelet.

End with a curled ring:
Curled Ring : 8ds, vsp, 8ds. Fold around previous ring, from back to front, normal join.

I tatted about 70 rings, then tatted the curled ring.

I've shared a video in my YouTube channel. This is the link: https://youtu.be/a8VQxyJ0NrI
Thank you for watching.

Have I discovered the wheel again? Maybe, but I enjoy the game!

Ciao,
Ninetta

russian inspired bracelets

There's a song by Aretha Franklin entitled "chain of fools", I love the refrain when they repeat "chain chain chain"... That's what I was singing while tatting these bracelets 🥰

The idea came up after I tatted another bracelet, following a video by Svetlana Borovik, a Russian tatter, here it is the link:

https://youtu.be/rc_fTuWSwNM

UPDATE: Svetlana Borovik lives in Pervomayskyy, Kharkivs'Ka Oblast', in Ukraine.

And in the next picture there is my version:

Thread is HWT (coloured silk wounded together with Finca metallic gold colour 0006 n.2/C), it is like a cotton size 10, then I sewed agate on it. I like it a lot, thank you Svetlana! 🥰🥰🥰

Back to the point, I was playing with that pattern, when I found by chance the lovely chainmail effect.

That is, the trick is only in the ring&chain lanyard and how it is interlaced after that you have the tatting done. That's the lesson I learnt from Svetlana's Master Class.

It is very very easy!!! I haven't copied the pattern for these bracelets, it is my original idea and if - it could happen - someone tatted this pattern before, I would not be surprised, because it is very basic, a pattern for beginners 😍!

The basic idea behind all versions of my bracelet it is only a line of rings and chains, with no picots nor joins.

》》》》》I tatted a line of rings with 20 ds and chains 20 ds each. Start with a ring, then you have just to make a line of chains and rings all the same, then a last chain and make all the interlacing. At the end, tat one curled ring to block the last two rings.《《《《《

But it can be a one-shuttle pattern, too!
You should put beads in place of the chains.
In the next pic there are 20 rocaille beads 15/0 between each ring, tatted with a thread comparable to a cotton size 50 (it is S Master 30 by Fili &Gioielli a chiacchierino, from Edda Guastalla's shop):

How to interlace:

FIRST METHOD:

Follow the pictures:

• put B over A, 
• pass C throughout both A and B from back to front, 
• pull C and 
• rename that last ring as in bottom-left pic and repeat.

I tatted 30 rings and finished with one bead in the bare thread, then tatted one curled ring (that is C in next picture), that is: 10ds, very small picot, 10ds.
That last CR (="curled ring") joined together the last 2 rings (A and B in next picture).

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SECOND METHOD:

Another way to interlace is using just 2 rings, like in next picture: 

Follow the pictures:

• put B over A, 
• pass B throughout A from back to front, 
• pull B and 
• rename that last ring as in bottom-right pic and repeat.

Finish as in previous method, with a CR.

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These are my "Russian inspired bracelets", pattern is after each picture. Add or remove one or more ring&chain to fit your wrist's size.
ds = double stitch;
fhs= first half stitch;
shs = second half stitch;
vsp = very small picot;
CR = curled ring.

Bracelet#1:

Thread S Master 30 by Fili &Gioielli a chiacchierino, from Edda Guastalla's shop, it is like a cotton size 50. One shuttle and ball (or two shuttles).
Start with a ring.
(*) Ring: 20ds; Chain: 20ds; (**)
Repeat from (*) to (**) 26 times;
Chain 10ds; don't cut the thread.
Then interlace using the FIRST METHOD, at the end tat a CR: 10ds,vsp,10ds (curl around the last 2 rings). Cut and hide ends.

Bracelet#2:

Thread is Finca metallic gold colour 0006 n.2/C, doubled, it is like a cotton size 20. Beads are rocailles 11/0 all loaded on the core shuttle. One shuttle and ball (or two shuttles).
Start with a ring.

Ring: 20ds; Chains: 20ds;
Ring: 20ds; Chain: 20ds;
(*) Ring: 20ds; Chain: 10ds;
Continue the chain in this way: Slide one bead on the core thread and tat 1 fhs, then slide another bead and tat 1 shs; Repeat for a total of 8 beads (that is: bead, 1fhs, bead, 1shs, bead, 1fhs, bead, 1shs, bead, 1fhs, bead, 1shs, bead, 1fhs, bead, 1shs).
Ring: 20ds; Chain: 20ds; (**)
Repeat 12 times from (*) to (**).
Ring: 20ds; Chain: 20ds; don't cut the thread.
Then interlace using the FIRST METHOD, at the end tat a CR: 10ds,vsp,10ds (curl around the last ring). Cut and hide ends.

Bracelet#3:

Thread S Master 30 by Fili &Gioielli a chiacchierino, from Edda Guastalla's shop, it is like a cotton size 50. One shuttle and ball (or two shuttles).
Start with a ring.
 
(*) Ring: 20ds; Chain: 20ds;(**)
Repeat 20 times from (*) to (**).
Ring: 20ds;
Tat a last chain of 10ds; don't cut the thread.
Then interlace using the SECOND METHOD, at the end tat a CR: 10ds,vsp,10ds (curl around the last ring). Cut and hide ends.

Bracelet#4:

Thread is DMC metallic AR-CL 100% polyester, it is like a cotton size 70. Beads are hematite stones. One shuttle and ball (or two shuttles).
Start with a ring.
 
Ring: 20ds; Chain: 20ds;
Ring: 20ds; Chain: 20ds;
(*) Ring: put a bead in the loop for the ring, 20ds, close (the bead will be trapped at the base); 

Chain: 20ds;(**)

Repeat 20 times from (*) to (**).
Ring: 20ds;
Tat a last chain of 10ds; don't cut the thread.
Then interlace using the SECOND METHOD, at the end tat a CR: 10ds,vsp,10ds (curl around the last ring). Cut and hide ends.

Bracelet#5:

Thread is Finca metallic gold colour 0006 n.2/C, doubled, it is like a cotton size 20. Beads are miyuki delica seed beads 11/0 all loaded on shuttle. Only one shuttle.
Start with a ring. Leave a short tail (only 25cm) to finger tat one chain.

Ring: 20ds; Chain: 20ds; hide the chain's end.
(*) Ring: 20ds; close ring; slide 18 beads (**)
Repeat 16 times from (*) to (**).
Ring: 20ds;
Slide 10 beads.
Then interlace using the SECOND METHOD, at the end tat a CR: 10ds,vsp,10ds (curl around the last ring). Cut and hide end.

Ciao,
Ninetta