How to Make Friendship Bracelets with Names

Wearing friendship bracelets were a hip trend back in the day, with everyone sporting one or many of these tied around their wrists. It then moved upwards to bracelets with alphabets or with numbers to mark a special date or if it was of numerical value in another way. This slowly died off as time moved on, but now it seems they're making a comeback. They come in different colors, patterns, materials and in different shapes and sizes depending on how creative the maker gets when putting together these pieces.

Here you'll find easy and simple ways on how to make friendship bracelets with names. You can use these in so many ways to help translate it into something both meaningful and long-lasting. You can add what you like to it like colorful beads or tinkly little silver balls, to add a different twist to its overall design. Whatever you decide to incorporate into your bracelet, I'm sure you'll be experimenting with many more samples before you have people admiring your works of art.

Instructions On How to Make Bracelets with Alphabets

These easy to make friendship bracelets when it comes to putting these together, are going to have the receiver or yourself, immensely happy with the outcome. Let's get on with the instructions to help you place together piece by piece, one of a kind bracelets.

What You'll Need:

• One packet of the letters of the alphabet
• Three thick pieces of wool string (make sure the letters can slide through)
• Colorful beads
• Ball bells connected to a single loop
• Scissors

How to Begin:

You can choose any three colors from the wool balls that you get at any store that has sewing tools and materials. Roughly cut about 15 inches of the strings and holding all three together slide through your first colorful bead and then the ball bell. Keep two inches free towards the end of the strings when you slide these two first balls in. Leave it there and start sliding in your first alphabet and continue until you have two balls at the end, then a letter, then one ball, a letter again and so on until you reach the end where you finish it off with another two balls. Then using the first and last string start tying a plait using it to overlap the center string and make one tight overlapping knot to hold the balls in place without them slipping off the end. To do the plait, first take the left string and overlap it over the second using the last string to mimic the same maneuver over the first and second string.

In a successive motion do at least two plaits before ending it in a tight knot on both ends of the bracelet, to hold the balls and alphabets in place. You'll then have three loose wool ends tapering at either end which you can cut according to your wrist's size or the other person's. You can tie these tightly with no intention of removing them or you could make light knots to remove and place back onto your wrist as and when you'd like. Be sure to experiment with other friendship bracelet letter patterns to give yourself an interesting new look to every bracelet.

Now that you know how to make these bracelets, you can see that it is not such a hard thing to have to put together since you can always transpose your materials as and when you please. Like say for example you can switch your blocks in between the letters to glass beads or crazy shapes instead of plastic to give it that elaborate look, with the intention of making it stand out. Switch it up every chance you get and don't forget to wear it proud. After all you made it!