How to make friendship bracelets

Making something handmade is a nice way to get a new hobby united with a pleasant result. Friendship bracelets are good presents to a close person, which show your attention. Also, they are bright and originally designed. Easy making and good anti-stress, are the best benefits of round friendship bracelets, so have you still got any doubts about not get started right now?

Items for beginning

There is a nice news for you: prepare only two kinds of material for crafting:

1. Embroidery threads (combine at least 4 different colors and about 80 сm long).

2. Optional things for design: toggle, beads or buttons.

Also prepare some tools, which will ease your work:

Scissors.

Paper, card, a scotch tape or a safety pin (for affixing your bracelet while braiding).

How to make cool friendship bracelets?

To make your own adornment, follow our easy yarn bracelet tutorial step by step. We prepared a detailed description of technics, you will need during working on original jewelry. Preparation of threads The usual amount of threads for the bracelet is between 4 and 10. Remember, that the more threads you use, the wider bracelet you will get. Cut them to make the same length (mostly approximately 80 cm) and make a knot from yarns in the beginning. Then fix yarns with a scotch tape above the node to hold them in the same position. Another way is to use a safety pin and attach threads to a cushion or pillow or something like that. Keep the pins by your place to fix bracelet during its growth.

Nodes

To make the bracelet you have to know two kinds of knots:

• Forward one is usually used when you move from the left side to the right. It is also called a “4” knot because you will see this number made of to threads. Remember, that if you have two or more colors, the color of the node created must be the same as the thread one. You will also end up changing the position of colors. Take the first thread, move it to the left side and put it on the second one. You will see a “4” shape. Move up the first thread into the created hole and tighten a knot. This thread should be on the right side of the second one.
• Backward one is usually used when you move from the right side to left and is a mirror image of the forward one. Repeat all the steps written before, only using the last thread.

Now, when you know all the basics, we are going to make a friendship bracelet step by step. Braided bracelet Prepare one string of the number of colors you want. Remember the forward knot technic and let's get started.

•  Step 1 Make a big node of all threads and affix them using a pin or scotch tape. 
•  Step 2 Take the first yarn and make 8 forward nodes over all strings.   
•  Step 3 Now take the next thread and repeat step 2. 
•  Step 4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you will be satisfied with the length of the bracelet. Then make a fixing node. Now, you have a colorful homemade jewelry!

Strip bracelet

This tutorial is a bit harder, but we are sure that you`ll go through it. Let`s get started!

Step 1

Prepare at least 6 strings (two of the same color) and make a node to affix them.

Step 2

Distribute them in the order you want to have stripes.

Step 3

Now make forward nodes moving to the last thread. As result, the first yarn should become the last one.

Step 4

Repeat step 3 for the second thread and move on until you have a desired length of the bracelet. To finish you can make a simple knot from all threads or use our tips placed below.

Chevron bracelet

Step 1

Use at least 8 threads of for colors to weave this bracelet. Make a fixing knot.

Step 2

Put them in order, in which you have a mirror image of colors from the centric point.

Step 3

Do forward nodes using the first thread from the left side moving to the central point and then stop.

Step 4

Now do the backward knots using the last thread, which will look like a mirror process. Repeat them until you get the central point and then do again the step 2 using the new first thread.

Step 5

Now you have two threads of the same color in the center and two other threads of the same color on the left and right side.  If your result is the same, you did everything alright.

Step 6

Fix threads using a node from all of them or move below to choose another way.

Leaves wristband

Step 1

Prepare at least 8 yarns of 4 different colors and make a unit of them.

Step 2

Put the threads in the mirror image of colors from the central point.

Step 3

Take two central strings of the same color and make a backward node from the right one over the left one. Make a unit one more time on the same left thread. You will still have two threads of the same color, which you had in the start, in the center.

Step 4

Take the next two yarns of the same color and make from the left one two forward units over the left thread of the middle ones.

Step 5

Make two backward nodes using the right yarn of the color you used in step 4 over the right middle thread. As a result, you will have two threads of the same color in the center.

Step 6

Repeat steps 4 and 5 using another color. Remember that you must have another two threads of the same color in the center.

Step 7

Reiterate the previous steps until you have a wristband of the desired length. Then connect all the strings with a knot.

How to make a pretty finish?

Plain node

Tighten the symmetrical knot after you end weaving of the bracelet and make one more to connect two sides. Cut off the extra length.

Exclusive tip. To make your bracelet more volume and loose, leave the longer endings.

Bead

Before tightening a node, threads the strings through the bead at one end.

Button

During a preparing process, make a loop appropriate to the button you want to use. At the end of the process, make a knot to fix all the yarns and then fix a button with a node. Put on the bracelet on your wrist and push the button through the initial loop.

Plaid

When you have already done the bracelet, make a plaid using strings as a hair and then tighten a knot.

Toggle

At the end of the bracelet`s creating, make a knot to fix threads. Then loop the threads through the one part of the toggle and tighten a node. Cut off the extra endings. Repeat it to the other end of the bracelet to fix yarns to another part of a toggle.

Finish!

Now, a ready homemade bracelet is in your hands, so you can wear it or present to close people to make them happier!