![]() ![]() If you’ve made classic friendship bracelets before, you’re probably used to knotting your rows on a diagonal. STEP 3: Knot your Background using Forwards and Backwards Knots Separate your 7 interior strands and place your exterior strand on the outside, ready for knotting. Tie together all 8 ends at least 3″ down, then tape, pin or clip down your bracelet’s tail to hold it in place ready for knotting. (See photo above.) In this tutorial, we’ll show you a super easy trick for tieing knots that don’t require feeding your entire yarn skein through a loop. According to our calculations, you’ll need at least 205″ inches, however your best bet is not to cut the desired length but rather to pull an end from an Omegacryl skein, Omegacryl bobbin (from our Friendship Bracelet Kit), or embroidery floss skein and tie it along with the 7 cut interior strands. Cut 7 strands to be 30″ long each.Įxterior string: This will be the color of your background. Interior strings: These will be the color of your letters. So that’s 8 strands total you’ll be tieing together. You’ll also need one seemingly endless string to be your exterior string. Those vertical lines indicate the number of “interior” strings your pattern calls for. Your pattern will be 7 knots wide, as indicated by the number of bubbles in each row, as well as the small vertical lines above the first row of knots and below the last row of knots. (Didn’t think we’d get into algebra here, did you?!) STEP 2: Cut, Tie & Lay Out Strings Pattern: y blank rows, PATTERN, y blank rows Here’s an example from our sample bracelet here to help illustrate how to get this calculation:ĩ3 total rows – 23 rows from generator = 70 / 2 = 35 rows –> Pattern: 35 blank rows, PATTERN, 35 blank rowsĩ3 total row – # rows from generator = x / 2 = y blank rows Thus, you’ll start by knotting that number of blank rows, then follow your pattern, then end with that same number of blank rows. Then, take that number and divide it by 2, as in the blank row segments before and after your pattern. As such, you’ll have to do a little math to figure out how many blank rows to start (and end) with in order to get your pattern centered.Īccording to our calculations, an average adult-sized “alpha-style” friendship bracelet is 93 rows. From here, count the number of rows on your generated pattern, then subtract that number from 93 total rows. When you generate your pattern, the generator will only provide the segment with the name / word plus a blank row before and after. To print your pattern, we recommend screenshotting it to save the file and print it. To save your pattern, you can save the custom URL linked at bottom of the generator page. The length is totally dependent on your pattern! ![]() (This will make more sense as you learn what the arrows mean!) Your grid should be 7 squares wide. You can also plan out your own pattern using grid paper, marking all the boxes that represent knots that will create the word or name with a ⬇️ and all the background squares with forwards and backward knots, alternating rows between all ➡️ and all ⬅️ for background color knots. The first step to making your Alpha Friendship Bracelet is to generate your pattern using this nifty pattern generator on. *Indicates item is included in our Friendship Bracelet Kit! HOW TO MAKE WORD & NAME (ALPHA) FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS Approx: 210″ of letter color & 205″ of background color Now grab some Omegacryl and read on to learn how to make Alpha Friendship Bracelets! While the knots used are essentially the same as regular friendship bracelets, the approach is slightly different since you’re generally using two colors of string, one of which is cut into 7 strands to act mostly as filler for the bracelet’s knots, and the other color used to do the majority of the knotting to create the background and negative space for the letters.Īfter whipping up a batch of these, we figured out some super helpful tricks and tips to make these sweet personalized bracelets a breeze to create. Did you know that you can utilize those same techniques to knot horizontally and from there, create letters and thus WORDS on your friendship bracelets?! YEPP!!!Įnter: Alpha Friendship Bracelets aka Word or Name Friendship Bracelets, which we’re going to teach you how to create today! When you think of friendship bracelets, you probably imagine colorful stripes, repeating Vs, interlocking X’s and diamonds, and other diagonally-based patterns. ![]()
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