Embroidery Floss Friendship Bracelets

Sheena was feeling depressed since morning. Her day had started off bad with a fight with her mother and furthermore, the grade she got in her math test did nothing to uplift her mood. The day certainly wasn't going on too well for her. And to make things worst, Keith, a bully in her class had devoured her lunch after ruthlessly snatching it from her and pushing her down in the mud. Everyone stood staring at her but none of her classmates came to give her a hand. Right now, she was wishing that she wanted to talk to a friend desperately. As she sat crying there with her head between her arms, her eyes fell on the embroidery floss friendship bracelet that her best friend, Chloe, had made it on her own and had given it to her a month back before she shifted to another home. She remembered how Chloe used to be strong and protect her from everyone who tried to hurt her. Suddenly, Sheena knew what she had to do, so, she got up, found a telephone booth, went in and punched in her best friend's number.

After family, friends are the most important people in everyone's life. To treat them specially, making friendship bracelets on your own, adds a personal touch to your friendship. Kids love to wear such bracelets as they look funky, if they are well-patterned and colorful, and at the same time reminds you of your friends every time you look at them.

How to Make Friendship Bracelets from Embroidery Floss?

The simplest pattern for making these bracelets is the braid pattern. This pattern requires three strings (can be of different or same colors) and you have to intervene the floss threads in the first and the third position over the floss thread in the second position (after the first braid knot, the first thread will come in the third position, the second in the first and the third in the second), alternately to make the bracelet.

1. First, select floss strings of four different colors (if you are a novice, separate colors will make it easy to understand). Arrange them in the order in which you want the colors to alternate. Leaving a margin of two inches, tie a round/overhand knot of all the strings together.
2. Now, tie the margin thread temporarily to a rod or ask someone to hold it for you. The strings have to be taut when you are intervening them.
3. Pick string1 (we will call them string1, string2, string3, string4, for convenience) and wrap it around string2 such that it winds string2, and pull string1 to make the knot tight. Repeat this action once more with the same strings and be careful that the knot is tightly wound.
4. Perform the same action specified in step 2 but this time, use string1 and string3 and after you are done with these two strings, do the same for string1 and string4.
5. Note: You will observe that string2 has moved to the first position, string3 to second, string4 to third and string1 to the last i.e. forth position.
6. Now, repeat the above steps in exactly the same way till the last two inches of margin of each string is left.
7. Tie an overhand knot at this point and, ta-da, your bracelet is ready.

Once you master the basic technique, you can make varied patterns by mixing and matching colors and techniques. If you want to make a thick band, you can implement a creative idea of making braided bracelets first then weaving them in the above specified pattern. You can use as many colors as you want in this bracelet since, in all, you will be having 12 different strings to go with.