MissAmy |

I’ve been inspired by the bullet jewelry I’ve been seeing around (here at botticellisniece.com & here at pipeline refinery, but most of all this bracelet.  (If you know what blog this came from please let me know so I can credit them.  I stupidly only linked to the image instead of the blog post & can’t tell from the URL.) 

Anyway, whoever you are, you & your bracelet inspired the DIY tutorial to follow.  Enjoy!

First thanks to my dear Dad for the supplies.  He was awesome to share his stash with me!  Pictured below is the final product:

My supplies: bullet casings, leather cord:

I lined them up in the pattern I wanted.  I wove the leather cord in the small hole end, out the big hole end & then into the small hole end of the next one in line in an S pattern.  I left some extra length at the beginning so I had something to attach to in the end.  It really doesn’t show well in the pictures.  If you need clarification, let me know & I will do a diagram.  That might be a simpler way to see it.  It took me a little while to figure out how to make this work.

Once I threaded my cord all the way to the end I started threading my way back to the start.  Above & below, you can see (I was on the third casing).

 
Here is after finishing the threading.  You can see that by tying the cords when they re-meet at the beginning, you end up with a handy loop on each end of the bracelet.
 

I thought about just tying it together on the wrist or adding a toggle but decided to do an elastic closure with snaps.  I only ended up using one.  I just cut it the length I needed & added snaps to form a loop.

This is what it looks like on with the elastic closure.  I suppose you could finish it even better by attaching the elasic to the loops somehow.  I ran out of patience by then.  That’s me, the ADD crafter!