I made this bracelet a couple of days ago to kind of refresh my bracelet-making memory, and it came out so cute! since then I've been making a ton of bracelets nonstop.
The forward backward knots aren’t needed, I got through half of the bracelet then changed to simply forward and backward knots instead and the bracelet was much nicer and easier. Might have been obvious to a more experienced person but I found it frustrating.