How to Measure Your Wrist for a Gothic Bracelet

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Robin with trees-mom.com, and we're making a video today for Expert Village. We're crocheting black wire to make a Gothic bracelet. We need to determine the size that we're going to use. They're a couple of different ways of doing this. The way I usually do is when I do my chain stitch, I just wrap it around my wrist to see how many more chains that I need. If you want to do is more specifically, you can take your tape measure, measure your wrist. You need to add an inch to it, and then you can have that right in front of you on the table or your work surface to gage your chain stitch by. You can make the line on a piece of paper, just the length that you need it, and have it sitting there so that you can measure your chain stitch to see if it's the length that you need. You always need to add one inch to the end of your measurement, because as you're crocheting, it's going to shrink down a little bit and you don't want to make it to small. "