How to Use a Friendship Bracelet Wheel
A friendship bracelet wheel, also known as a Kumihimo disk, is used to make quick and simple bracelets for you and your friends. The bracelet wheel has 32 different slots for your string or yarn to be slid into. By alternating your string or yarn into different slots, your bracelet will quickly begin to take shape. Although there are a variety of different bracelets you can make with the friendship bracelet wheel, learning the basic Kumihimo bracelet is the best way to understand how the wheel works.
Instructions
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Align your eight pieces of yarn together. Tie one end of the yarn together in a simple overhand knot. Although you can use any colors you'd like, for this example assume you're using four pink pieces and four gray pieces of yarn.
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Slide the yarn through the bottom hole of the bracelet wheel. The knotted end of the yarn should be underneath the wheel, and the free ends should be pulled through the front of the wheel.
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Slide one pink yarn piece through slot number one. Slide the second pink yarn piece through slot number two. Slide the third pink yarn piece through slot number 17. Lastly, slide your fourth pink yarn piece through slot number 18.
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Slide your first gray yarn piece through slot number nine. Slide your second gray yarn piece through slot number 10. Slide your third gray yarn piece though slot number 25. Then lastly, slide your fourth gray yarn piece through slot number 26.
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Move the pink yarn piece from slot two into slot number 16. Then move the pink yarn piece in slot number 18 into slot number 32.
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Rotate the friendship wheel so your gray yarn pieces in slots nine and 10 are facing up. Move your gray yarn pience in slot number 10 into slot number 24.
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Move your gray yarn piece in slot number 26 over to slot number eight.
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Rotate the friendship wheel so your pink yarn pieces in slots 16 and 17 are facing up.
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Continue to follow the pattern of moving the top right yarn piece down -- so it sits to the right of the bottom yarn piece. Then keep moving the bottom left yarn piece up -- so it sits to the left of the top yarn piece -- and rotate your friendship wheel counterclockwise.
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Slide the bracelet out of the wheel when it's long enough to fit around your wrist. Tie the loose end of the bracelet to the knotted end. Snip off any loose ends with a pair of scissors.
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