DIY - Round Friendship Bracelets.

Hiya!

Okay, since the summer is the time of holidays and leaving shcool (and your friends) as well as travelling and making new friends, I thought a friendship bracelet was a pretty awesome idea for this week's DIY.

BUT this friendship bracelet isn't a normal one but what I call a "round" one. I'm not sure if I invented it, I probably didn't, but I've never seen it on anyone else, even though it's really pretty and - most important - really easy! Even if you've never made a friendship bracelet before, you'll do perfectly fine.

They're quite plain, but look really interesting if you take wool that's mottles or multicoloured, as I did.

So this is what this type of friendship bracelet looks like in the end:

Personally I think it looks best in one colour only, but if you want to, you can just take different colours ans swap while braiding it. I guess. I've never tried. The wool I used was Lana Grossa Wool, but it doesn't really matter. The one I used was kind of a mixture of green and turquoise, which I think looks pretty cool.

So let's start with this beauty!!!

By the way, I always pin the bracelet to my jeans because that makes it easier for me to braid. You don't have to do that, but that's why the pictures look kind of strange. :)

Step 2) For the size I did you need four strings of the same length, which should be about three ot four times the length the bracelet should be, and one that is really long - at least 100 inches. After about three inches you know them all together and that's where you start with the bracelet. 

It is really important that the long string is on one of the sides!!! I started on the left side - if you didn't, you'll have to start with step 4, go on until you finish step 5, and then start with step 2.

Step 2)  You start by putting the long string over the second from the left side (that's the first shorter one). It should look like a 4.

Step 3) Now you loop the long string around the shorter one - it should look like on the picture. You now hold the shorter string down and pull on the long one until there is a firm knot. You have to pull pretty hard because it can't be loose - otherwise you won't get that nice 3D-shape.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 on all the strings, including the last one.

Step 4) You should already have made a knot on the last string (the first on the right) the way it is described in steps 2 and 3.

Now you put the long string over the shorter one again, only the other way around. the string should already lie that way. It should look like a D.

Step 5) Now loop the long string around the shorter one - it should look like in the picture. As you did in step 3, you hold on to the shorter string and pull firmly on the longer.

Now you make these kind of knots on every other string, including the first one! The outer strings always have to have two knots!

Continue doing steps 2 to 5 until the bracelet is long enough. then you can loose the big knot you made at the beginning and make a big knot with both ends, securing it on your - or your friend's wrist.

Badabing badaboom, that's how friendship bracelets are made!!!

Finished!

(sorry that picture is awful....)

YOU are WELCOME.

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