Popsicle earrings

I made these earrings for my friend's thirteenth birthday. They were fun to make and I hope she likes them. To get the earrings to be shaped, I used this technique Shegorules' tutorial on friendship-bracelets.net. I did not create the Popsicle pattern; I found them here markovulina's pattern on friendship-bracelets.net

Ninjago bracelet

I made this bracelet for my little brother's sixth birthday. It is 17 strings wide and 51 rows long. I really hope he likes it :) I did not create this pattern. I found it here: TonyMarinara's pattern on friendship-bracelets.net (Instead of red I did blue for the body)

Summer has begun!

I officially am done school for this year! Yay for summer vacation! That means more bracelet making time.I hope to add more tutorials to my blog and show off more of my work. Hopefully I will get more bracelet tutorials, teach you how to read normal patterns and how to make two-colored and multicolored alphas. Have a great summer and make lots of bracelets! 

Broken Ladder Bracelet Tutorial

This bracelet is easy to make and super cute! My art class made these and they really enjoyed them. To make this bracelet, you should know how to make the Chinese staircase and chevron. I have tutorials for both of them if you aren't sure how to make them.

Supplies 

You will need 8 pieces of embroidery floss, either 4 colors or 2 colors. I will be using 4 colors and they will be red, orange, yellow, and cream. 

Step 1

Set up your strings like a chevron bracelet. My setup will be 

r,o,y,c,c,y,o,r

Step 2 

Make four rows of chevron, which would be one row for each each color. 

Step 3 

Now divide your strings into two groups. That means one of each color will be in a group with a total of 4 strings in a group. 

Step 4

Take the color that was your first row of chevron. For me that is red. Take that string and make 10-15 rows of Chinese staircase. Do that for each group. 

Step 5 

Take the next color and make a row of chevron. The first row will be a bit wonky, but it will even out.

 Make another three rows of chevron. 

Step 6 

Repeat steps 2-5 until your bracelet is the desired length. 

Note: try to keep the color pattern consistent. So if the Chinese staircase is red then the next chevron would be orange. 

Bordered Candystripe Bracelet Tutorial

This bracelet is super cute and fun to make. In this tutorial, two new knots are going to be used, the forward-backward knot and the backward-forward knot. So make sure you know how to make them. (check out my tutorial here)

Supplies 
Six pieces of string, two of one color and four other colors. The two of one color will be the "border" color for this bracelet. I'll be using gray, blue, yellow,purple and  orange for this tutorial. Gray is going to be the border color.

Step 1
Cut your strings and start your bracelet anyway you want.

Step 2 
Set up your strings in this order- gray, blue, yellow, purple, orange, gray. (g,b,y,p,o,g)
(grays will be referred to as g1 and g2 for clearer instructions)

Step 3
Take g1 and make a forward-backward knot (fk/bk) onto the blue string

Step 4 
Take your blue string and make forward knots onto y,p,o

Step 5
Take g2 and make a backward-forward knot onto the orange string.

Step 6 

Continue steps 3-6 until your bracelet is the desired length. The gray will not move from their positions, but the colors will alternate positions, like a regular candy stripe.