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Friendship Bracelets for Beginners

The Ultimate step by step guide with pictures to learn the skills and techniques to create beautiful friendship bracelets with several amazing projects

 

Lilly Wesley

copyright@2023

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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION TO MAKING FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS

INTRODUCTION TO MAKING FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS

Friendship bracelets are an excellent project to carry with you everywhere you go! They're especially useful for those who have repeatedly failed to learn to knit or crochet. Additionally, I believe that learning how to create a friendship bracelet is one of those summer camp rites of passage, thus this might be compared to relearning how to ride a bike.

All you need is some embroidery floss to create a friendship bracelet! I'll demonstrate how to build the most basic of friendship bracelets - the candy stripe - in this tutorial.

You may create them as thick or as thin as you wish, and it's simple to learn how to make a friendship bracelet in less than an hour. You'll also improve your speed as you progress!

I apologize in advance for using many bracelets to explain how to build a friendship bracelet; I repeated many of the procedures to obtain the best photographs. Photographing small knots is quite difficult.

Step1: Requirements Needed

• Embroidery floss/tiny or slim yarn

• scissors

• duct tape or safety pins

The embroidery floss may be inexpensive and available in large quantities such as this one! You do not require anything elaborate. Simply ensure that it is six stranded; otherwise, it will be too thin to produce a lovely bracelet.

Additionally, Lion Brand yarn produces these adorable small skeins of yarn called Bonbons. And they are adorable.

The tape or pins will secure the bracelet in place while you braid/knot it.

Step 2: Taking Measurements + Cutting

The usual idea is to cut floss pieces the length of your fingertips to your shoulder - around 30 inches works fine for me! I attempted 25 with the first and it came really close.

My wrists are around 6 inches in circumference, so let's just say that you should measure your wrist and double it by five to be safe. You don't want to run out of floss and be unable to complete the project.:)

If you're building a bracelet with more than six strands, it's probably a good idea to add additional six inches as well! You'll be adding extra knots to each row, allowing you to go through each color a bit faster.

Step 3: Determine the Number of Strands to work on

I've never worked with more than eight strands. I usually choose six Because six is the right size for me - tiny but detailed, and measures around 1/4-1/3 of an inch.:)

Keep in mind that adding additional strands makes it more difficult to keep track of them, and the bracelet may get somewhat distorted as a result; thus, you'll need to block it (see the last step for instructions on how to do this!) if you want it to lay straight.

Additionally, depending on the design you like, you can use two alternating colors or each strand might be a different color. You can create a plethora of lovely designs with little effort!

I've included a photo of a six-strand bracelet with an eight-strand bracelet to help you visualize.

Step 4: How to Begin the Bracelet

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 28.01.2023
ISBN: 978-3-7554-3069-8

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