How to Make a Yarn Friend Bracelet
If you can tie knots, you can make a yarn friendship bracelet. While friendship bracelets may be made according to several patterns, let older kids start with the basic diagonal or candy stripe pattern. This weaving and knotting pattern makes the bracelets thicker as well as more durable. If you have younger kids, start them off with a more simple braided friendship bracelet. Because of the bracelets' small size, create them almost anywhere.
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Things You'll Need
- 6 pieces different-colored embroidery thread
- Scissors
- Clipboard
- Safety pin
- Tape
Instructions
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Cut six pieces of different-colored thin yarn, like embroidery thread. You want about 24 inches of each thread.
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Arrange the yarn in the colored pattern you would like. Each piece of thread needs to be next to one other.
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Tie a knot at the top of the strands to hold them all together.
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Attach the bracelet to something, so that you are able to pull each knot tight with each weave. For example, put the knot of the bracelet into the clip of a clipboard or tape it to a flat surface.
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Lay out your strings flat. From left to right, you will be working with string A, B, C, D, E and F.
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Start creating your knots. You will be working with one strand at a time, until you go across all the remaining strands of color. You will always use the left-hand string as the one that will be doing the knotting.
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Take A, bring it over B and under it, to create a knot. Pull A tight, then repeat the motion around B to create a double knot.
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Move on to the next string. Take A and double knot it around C, then D, E and finally F. The ending string pattern, from left to right will be B, C, D, E, F and A.
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Continue with string B, C, D, E, F and back to A again. Continue the knotting pattern until you have a bracelet long enough to go around your wrist.
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Tips & Warnings
Make the bracelet with the same colors as your best friend to truly make it part of a matching friendship bracelet set.
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