Step One – Measure your wrist with a tape-measure
Take a tape-measure, and wrap it around your wrist. Have the tape-measure sit flat on your skin around your wrist, without pulling at your skin. Wrap it comfortably – so make it not too loose and not too tight.
Then read the length measurement and round it up to the next cm on the tape measure.
For example, if the tape measure shows a length measurement as 16.5cm. Rounding that up to the closest cm makes it 17cm.
Step Two – Adding space for your charm beads to fit
You don’t want your Bead bracelet to be as firm a fit as your tape-measure. You need room for the charms to fit, and for the bracelet to feel comfortable.
General Rule: Add 2cm to your wrist length
For example: Step 1 measurement was 17cm
17cm + 2cm = 19cm
For most Bead bracelets you would add 2cm to your length, that’s the general rule of thumb for an average number of charms on your bracelet.
But if you intent to fill your Bead bracelet all the way around with European bead charms, you could add 3cm instead of 2cm, to give a bit extra room to fit the larger number of beads.
