Thursday, November 24, 2011

Basic Friendship Bracelets

Materials

  • 3 strands of embroidery floss or yarn each 6 feet long
    • floss is nicer but a nice thick yarn can be easier to use the first time you do the project
       
Friendship Bracelet 

Directions:

  • Put your yarn together so all of the ends meet
     
  • Fold in half and knot in the middle (now you have 6 strands)
     
  • tape the knot to a table or clip it onto a clipboard (or get a friend to hold it)
     
  • Starting from left to right, hold the
  • Starting from left to right, use the left most string (in this case the yellow) to make a double knot around each of the other strings -- the image shows what one double knot looks like
     
  • using the colors in our diagram, we'd use the left most yellow to make a double knot around the red, then the second red, the green, then the second green, then the yellow
     
  • At the end of that, the string we used for knotting is now on the right most side of the project and there's a diagonal first row of knots across our bracelet
  • Again, starting from left to right, we'll pick up our next string and knot all the way across with it -- in our diagram, we pick up the right string and knot across the green, green, red, yellow, yellow
  • continue this process of taking the left most string and double knotting all the way across the other strings until your bracelet is long enough to tie around your wrist
     
  • Tie a simple knot in the end and then tie it around your friend's wrist!
Friendship Bracelet

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