Friendship Bracelet Patterns

Friendship is a very special relationship in everyone's life. People treasure their friends and also go out of the way, for the sake of friendship. Everyone tries to make their friend feel special in their own way. Exchanging friendship bracelets is one of them. What are friendship bracelets? Let us have a look at them.

Friendship Bracelets

A friendship bracelet is a special band or a bracelet used as a mark of friendship. Exchanging or giving friendship bracelets is quite an old tradition, but is very popular even today. Friendship bracelets are worn by males as well as females of all ages, though they are more popular in adolescent and teenage groups. Traditionally, a friendship bracelet has to be hand made and the wearer has to wear it till it wears out and falls off naturally.

Making friendship bracelets at home can be a fun-filled activity as well as an exciting hobby. There are numerous friendship bracelets patterns to choose from. How to make friendship bracelets? Here we will see the easiest patterns which will be very helpful for the beginners. The material required for both these friendship bracelets patterns are the same.

Friendship Bracelet Patterns # 1

Things required

• Embroidery floss (2-3 colors)
• Safety pin/Masking tape/Clipboard
• Scissors

Procedure

• Take 3 colored floss and cut 3 strands of each color of about 3 feet. Hold them in one length in your hand and tie their heads. Now attach this with a masking tape to a clipboard or you can even attach them to a safety pin.
• We will name the three strands as 123456789. Strands of each color should be placed adjacent to each other (for e.g, first 3 red, then 3 yellow and so on). Now take the left most strand (1) and bring it on front of strand 2. Take it at the back of strand 2 and bring on over strand 1. Now tie a knot by keeping strand 2 taut and pulling strand 1 a bit up.
• Use the strand on knot 2 and make a knot over strand 3. Repeat this process and make knots over all other strands and complete the row. You will notice that the left most strand has now become the right most strand.
• Repeat the above process starting again with the left most strand. You have to complete as many rows required to make a friendship bracelet of desired length. When it is over, tie or braid the ends or attach beads. You can even make a loop at one end as that will make tying the friendship bracelet easier.

Friendship Bracelet Patterns # 2

Procedure

• Cut strands of desired length. Hold them in one length in your hand and tie their heads. Now attach this with a masking tape to a clipboard or you can even attach them to a safety pin.
• We will number the strands as 123. Arrange them as 123 and then 321 (you can even use strands of five colors). Now starting from the right, make four backward knots, while starting from the left make five forward knots. After completing the five knots, you will get the center.
• Now continue the above step till you reach the desired length of your friendship bracelet. Finally braid the ends or you can even attach beads to it. See more on embroidery floss friendship bracelets.

Once you master these simple friendship bracelet designs, you can try other advanced friendship bracelet patterns. You can have a friendship bracelet party at home, invite your friends and make friendship bracelets together, using these friendship bracelet patterns. It will surely be great fun!