Posted by: Rizza | July.17.2008

Summer project: Making friendship bracelets

School’s been out for a month… you probably had enough theme-parking, swimming, sunning, and other outdoor activities. Now you’re looking for a relaxing indoor activity. You’re in luck! I have just the right activity for you – making friendship bracelets!

To get started, you’ll need the following:
Embroidery floss (like DMC or Anchor) – 2 or more different colors is preferred
A pair of scissors
Ruler
A clipboard (or a clip and a book)
Beads (optional)
Your creativity… and your patience.

Getting started:
In order to make a bracelet, there are few things you should know first. The step-by-step instructions below was copied from Making Friends. I believe these images are derived from Klutz.
Basic Knots

Easy enough? I think so, too. Now you’re ready to make beautiful friendship bracelets!

It’s good to start with something easy. How about the Diagonal Stripes pattern? The step-by-step instructions below tells you to use 4-different colored threads but you can use two, three, five, or whatever you like! Just make the necessary adjustments.

Diagonal stripes pattern (from Klutz)
For this pattern, you’ll need 4 colors of embroidery floss 26 inches long

diagonal stripes

Have fun!


Responses

  1. awesome, cool, fantastic

  2. love making friendship bracelets!

  3. this rocks

  4. me and my bff are loveing it and love making it

  5. i love it

  6. [...] Craft Hope has sounded the call for bracelets. Now, jewelry-making is not my strong suit. Lucky for me, my partners in crime (the syndicate, if you will) are very gifted in this area, so I regularly benefit from their talents and have been able to pretty much resist the lure of the bead. Still, I really wanted to participate in this project! After a little searching around on the internet, I stumbled upon a forgotten classic: the friendship bracelet. [...]

  7. [...] right beneath your knot. Begin weaving with the first strip, from left to right. I used the diagonal stripes pattern here, which is very simple. Over, under, and [...]

  8. cool…


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