friendship bracelets for adults
I used to love making friendship bracelets as a child. I gave them up when I had to pretend to be a responsible adult… Until I found a hank of this stuff:
It’s hand-dyed silk floss from The Thread Gatherer. I thought it could be an interesting project to go with my carved jde pendant I just picked up.
To start the project I cut the floss into six equal pieces, about a yard and a half long, and then knotted them at one end. I prefer to work with the end securely fastened down, and in this case, all I had available was my knee:
The next step is to make two half-hitches around the second piece of floss using the first. This is the first knot:
The second knot goes right over top of the first one. Continue making knots all the way across the row until it looks like this:
Here’s the second row being formed:
Keep on forming rows, until you get a 6 - 8″ long piece (or you run out of thread!)
The strip wants to curve into a spiral, but we’ll do something interesting with that curve tomorrow!
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15 opinions for friendship bracelets for adults
khaled clarc
Jan 20, 2007 at 7:48 pm
im 15 and i love making friendship bracelets i use to hand them as candy before but now every time something special happens to me while im with m fiends or when we go out and have fun and something funny or unique happens i make the same bracelet for me and my friends and we ware them to keep those memoys alive we have about 10 now and we r only in thenth grade so we have to more years(before university)to collect as many memorys and make bracelets for each and every one of them.
Noreen
Jan 20, 2007 at 8:16 pm
This is so neat! I love what you are doing! I hope that you will have LOTS of joyful memories to weave into your friendship bracelets. Pure magic. Don’t stop!
blessings, Noreen (who now is the blogger for http://www.hankeringforyarn.com )
khaled clarc
Jan 20, 2007 at 8:22 pm
thank you and sorry for all the mistakes i made ! :p
tiffany
Jan 21, 2007 at 6:55 pm
this is so cool i am going to try it looks hard.
Noreen
Jan 21, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Oh, Khaled, don’t worry about typo’s! This is all about making neat friendship bracelets, not about being “perfect”!
Enjoy!
blessings
Noreen
Noreen
Jan 21, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Hi Tiffany
Actually, it’s really easy to do…. just looks hard before you start :)
Warning! Making friendship bracelets is addictive! LOL! You can also make friendship bracelets with spoolknitters.
Fun!
blessings
Noreen
Chloe
Jan 21, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Hi Tiffany & Khaled :-)
Don’t worry - it’s not hard at all! It does help to keep tension on the piece of floss you’re knotting around (not the piece of floss that’s going *across*) Once you get started it’s easy, easy, easy!
Chloe
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Noreen
Jan 23, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Hi Chloe!
and yes, I agree :)
Having the friendship bracelet anchored by pinning it to your jeans or a pillow, etc.
is really important.
Don’t forget that you can slide a bead up any of the strands of yarn if you’d like…
just slide it up and carry on knotting.
Fun! :)
They also make great bookmarks.
:) Noreen
ugne
Feb 26, 2007 at 5:25 pm
how do u make the bracelet stop twisting?! :’ someone pls tell me!xD
Oana
Jul 8, 2007 at 10:38 am
if you want your bracelets to stop twisting, you have to use cotton threads….
(msg for ugne)
?????
Jul 19, 2007 at 3:29 pm
i dont like the fact that you are saying - friendship bracelets for ADULTS- its not fair!!!!> children can do this too!!!!!!!!!!! i want you to change it !
Noreen
Jul 19, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Actually, ‘????’, when you read Chloe’s entry, you’ll see that she is saying that she loved making friendship bracelets when she was a child, and that she still loves making them now, even though she is an adult.
Friendship bracelets are wonderful, no matter what age the maker, or the receiver.
Enjoy!
imogen
Nov 26, 2007 at 9:38 am
hi. I am 14 and i love making friendship bracelets! I started off with easy designs and now i am on to the more challenging ones :) They are very rewarding to make.There are loads of really great websites that have hundreds of designs to make, ranging from beginner ones to the more chalenging ones, if you are interested. Great bracelet :D
Noreen
Dec 8, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Oops… I hit the wrong button and deleted a comment and when I tried to fix it , it showed up as blank. (just goes to show you that multi-tasking is not always a good idea!)
Sorry about that!
The comment is from Ashley
Comment:
????? You can’t tell people to change what they wrote they will change it if she wants to ??????
Sorry Ashley!
Hope it’s okay to copy and post your comment this way.
all the best
Noreen
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