help re-starting
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Lavander
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4 years, 4 months ago by Lavander
Hello! This is going to be long so feel free to go to a shorter question. I used to do friendship bracelets about 2 or 3 years ago. I only knew how to do candy Stripe and Chinese staircase. Now that I’ve been so bored due to the world pandemic. I came across all my string when going through my craft closet (do we all have one of those?) I made a few basic candy stripes over a few days and began to research on YouTube for friendship bracelets YouTuber. I found quite a few and fell in love with the designs that YouTube’s were doing such as arrow heads,starburst, and ALPHA. So I made a basic Chevron to work on my inverse 4s or what ever it’s called. I made 2 of those. But I would like to get into more cooler designs like a I listed before. I also want to get into alphas. Does anyone know where I should start? I want to try to learn how to read pattens so it would be nice if the bracelets had both a video and a pattern with it. Well that is so basic bracelets at least. I know how to read alphas and switch colors I just need to know what patterns I can do that aren’t to crazy hard like a person or animal design. So basically can someone give me tips and patterns to help me get out of the newbie stage of friendship bracelets? |
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SC00PSAH0Y
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4 years, 4 months ago by SC00PSAH0Y
Practice practice practice and learn to swim before you jump into the deep end. If you are just learning/still new at alphas start easy. I recommend a 2 color alpha thats 8-14 base strings wide so you don’t get overwhelmed.
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2006_Mandy
Bracelet King
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4 years, 4 months ago by 2006_Mandy
I can for sure help you with anything and everything
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2006_Mandy
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4 years, 4 months ago by 2006_Mandy
Always start with a candystripe it chinese staircase and go onto chevron. You need to make your way up when it comes to skill levels. If you can do a chevron no problem then you should be able to make a alpha no problem. After that in terms of normal patterns just keep increasing the difficulty in your patterns until you can do what it is you enjoy making
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SwimGirl36
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4 years, 4 months ago by SwimGirl36
One very easy normal pattern is #44051 by_kinseyb. It helps start you into harder bracelets. It’s a mix between chevron and diamond. It’s a really good starter bracelet and it’s really pretty.
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Lavander
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4 years, 4 months ago by Lavander
Thank you!
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madeleine_
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4 years, 4 months ago by madeleine_
Masha Knots is a YouTuber who has really clear and helpful tutorials. She has a whole playlist on beginner bracelets and a video on how to read patterns, along with videos on specific techniques and things you can do to make your bracelets look nicer. I recommend going to her channel and watching some of her videos
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Rg_Knots
Bracelet King
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4 years, 4 months ago by Rg_Knots
I recommend you make the distorted chevron ( #25049 ) and the the fishbone chevron ( #7954 ) after that you can try to make the dovetail bracelet. From there you should be set to make any normal pattern! For your first alpha I recommend #47568 (the vertical wave bracelet) but use two colors instead of 5. Then, try the rainbow alpha ( #25493 ). I hope this helps! 🙂
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Rg_Knots
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4 years, 4 months ago by Rg_Knots
Sorry, I forgot to mention the pattern for the dovetail bracelet 😂. The pattern is #24520.
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jadeflwr13
Bracelet King
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4 years, 4 months ago by jadeflwr13
the first alpha pattern i tried was #1654 and it was pretty easy- only two colors 🎠💌🎡🍓
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