Here is my pride to represent my state:

The Ohio State University’s intercollegiate sports team and players are called the “Buckeyes” (after the state tree, the Buckeye). They participate in the NCAA’s Division I in all sports.

mascot colors: scarlet, gray, white, and black

The bracelet above is actually an order from Erika of Cleveland, OH

In the process of making the 11 ordered friendship bracelets–one of my classmates wanted to buy one too, except that it would be a keychain….

here is the keychain she ordered:

translation: LIVE today like there is no tomorrow

Fall Quarter has been hectic with school, work, and making ordered friendship bracelets.  But with all of that happening, they can all be done!! (*with little sleep, of course*)

Since October the 5th to present (10/30/2008), I made 14 personalized friendship bracelets and 1 keychain…..below is the 11 bracelets

Jazmin’s order:  (-my first real customer-)

 

closer look:

Sorry for the lack of new post in the past days. I’m still here in San Francisco visiting friends and relatives. I meant to post these bracelets last week but forgot to.

Since football season is coming up, here are some of the football team-inspired friendship bracelets I made. Anybody interested in buying them e-mail me at I2izza[at]aol[dot]com. Let me know your favorite NFL team(s)!

Friends are the angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

- Anonymous

To my friends, you know who you are:

Feel free to greet your friends!

Honestly, I meant to make this blog a photo blog to show bracelets I’ve done over the years not as a friendship bracelet pattern resource. So please bear with me if patterns are not included in my posts. If you are resourceful, you can actually find a lot of friendship bracelet patterns online. One of several websites I frequently use is Heather’s Friendship Bracelets. To those who are familiar with the Klutz friendship bracelets, this webpage shows some of the patterns found in the Klutz book. For advanced friendship bracelet makers, Marina Ulmer sells beautiful friendship bracelet patterns for $1/pattern. Other websites you may find helpful are: Gloria’s Bracelet Page and Billy Bear 4 Kids.

Since several people requested for the double zigzag pattern, here’s my attempt to make it. I hope it’s easy enough to follow.

Double Zig-zag pattern

You’ll need 2 different colors of thread, 40″ each. For the purpose of this pattern, we’ll say four 40″ blue thread and six 40″ yellow threads.

Arrange threads in this manner: (The threads are parted in such a way to illustrate the 5 threads that will make the left and right zig-zags)

Legend: Y=Yellow, B=Blue

1. First, you’ll be working on the right zig-zag of the double zig-zag. Starting with the 5th string from right (Y), make four forward double knots.
2. Do the same with the next four strings until you create a diagonal stripe with Y, B, Y, B, Y pattern.
3. To create the zig-zag, create four backward knots using the rightmost string (Y).
4. Do step 3 four more times with the succeeding strings to create the same Y, B, Y, B, Y pattern.
5. Now, work on the left zig-zag. Take the 5th string from left and create four backward knots.
6. Do step 5 four more times using the succeeding strings to create Y, B, Y, B, Y pattern.
7. Create four forward knots with the leftmost string (Y).
8. Repeat step 7 four more times.
9. To join the left and right zig-zags, make a double knot using the two strings in the middle (5th and 6th strings).
10. Repeat steps 1 through 9 until the desired length.
11. Tie your bracelet and cut the remaining strings.

Other things I like about google aside from being a fast search engine are their holiday/non-official logos. Well, Friendship Day is coming up (August 3rd), so using friendship bracelets here’s my attempt to create a non-official google logo for this special day:

My sister made these bracelets during the 2008 NBA finals:

Coral snake pattern

2 50-inch brown strings
2 40-inch black strings
1 40-inch yellow string
2 40-inch red strings

Legend: L=left, R=right

Arrange the strings so that they are in this order:

1. Starting with string #1, knot a turnaround stitch (L-to-R, R-to-L) around string #2 to make the L border.
2. Make regular double knots with string #2 onto strings 3, 4, 5, and 6.
3. With thread #7, knot a turnaround stitch (R-to-L, L-to-R) onto string #2 (which is now the string adjacent to #7). This is the right border.
4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 until you reach string #6 (the last red string), making sure you knot a turnaround stitch at the end of each four regular double knots.
5. Throughout steps 1-4, you knotted going from L to R, after the last red string or the 6th string in the illustration above you will now knot from R to L.  
6. You will basically do the same thing, but in the opposite direction. With string #7, knot a turnaround stitch onto its adjacent string.
7. Make four double knots with the 2nd string from R onto 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th.
8. Make a turnaroud knot.
9. Then repeat the entire process until the desired length.

Notes

1. Dont forget to tie a turnaroud knot at the end of every four rows of regular double knots. The turnaround knots create the border.
2. In this pattern, the coral snake zigzags at reds and blacks.

Here’s the bracelet:

something to tie on your zipper:

something to tie your hair with:

as a strap for your all access pass or ID card: