One thing I noticed when making this bracelet, was that when making the outer “disconnected” pieces, they seemed a lot shorter than the middle piece so I was tempted to do another row to make the outer pieces longer. However, you just have to connect all the pieces together tightly and they will align.
@LexiStilli just don’t connect that part and pretend the part that’s not connected it’s just a smaller type of bracelet then once you come back to connect it then tie them together it’s kind of difficult but you get the hang of it