How to Make a Traditional Friendship Bracelet
- 1). Cut your strands of each color of floss approximately 3 feet long each. This is more than enough thread to accommodate a bracelet made with up to 10 strands of thread. If you are using more than 10 strands of thread, cut the strings longer.
- 2). Tie a knot in one end of the strands to hold them all together. The knot should be about 2 inches from the end to allow room for tying the bracelet around your friends arm once completed.
- 3). Open the clip on the clipboard and place the knot underneath. Close the clip to hold the strings in place while you work. Work the threads around until they are in the order you want the stripes in your bracelet to be. Group the strands by color or create a pattern of your choosing.
- 4). Hold the strand on the furthest left in your right hand and cross it over the second strand from the left at a 90 degree angle. Some of the first strand should still be on the left side of the second strand forming a space you can pass the thread through.
- 5). Pick up the second strand from the left with your left hand. For convenience, move the remaining strands out of the way while you tie each knot.
- 6). Lift up the second strand slightly and pull the first strand underneath it and back up through the space you left in step 4.
- 7). Hold the strand in your left hand tight and pull up on the first strand with your right hand until the knot you just made is snug against the clip board.
- 8). Repeat the same knot with the same two strands in the same order. Placing strand one over the top of strand two then wrapping under and back up through the space on the left.
- 9). Lay the stand in your left hand down and pick up the next string, which was originally the third string from the left and hold it tight in your left hand.
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Create two more knots using the same techniques used in steps 4 through 8. - 11
Continue this knotting process, picking up the next thread in your pattern each time you start a new row, until you have reached the last thread on the right. Your first thread from the left is now going to be the last thread on the right and you will repeat the knotting process starting with the new first thread on the left. - 12
Continue making the knots across the strands until your bracelet has reached the desired length.
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