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What happens when you stop looking at the knot chart and try to figure out a friendship bracelet pattern just by following the strings? Today I’m tackling friendship-bracelets.net pattern #92265 and doing a little pattern detective work. Instead of simply copying the original pattern, I’m …
What happens when you take a complicated friendship bracelet pattern and try to turn it into a color fade? 🧵🌈 Today I’m working with pattern #96584 from friendship-bracelets.net—and this one gets interesting FAST. I wanted to take a large section of the original pattern and …
What happens when you take an existing friendship bracelet pattern… and then stop following it? 😄 In this video, I start with pattern #100238 from friendship-bracelets.net, map out part of the original design, trace how the different strings and colors move through the pattern, and …
What if the most interesting part of a friendship bracelet pattern only happened ONCE? 🧵🌈 Today I’m starting with friendship-bracelets.net pattern #105416. I may have worked with this pattern—or something very similar—before, but this time I saw a completely different possibility. Instead of repeating the …
This friendship bracelet pattern is MUCH more complicated than it first appears. 🌈🧵 Today I’m working with friendship-bracelets.net pattern #110595—and I have to give some serious credit to whoever originally designed this one. Following where all of these strings travel took some concentration! My plan …
What happens when you use a friendship bracelet pattern as a STARTING POINT instead of something you have to follow exactly? 🧵 Today I’m working with friendship-bracelets.net pattern #108984—but my plan from the beginning is to make it into something completely my own. The original …
Friendship-bracelets.net pattern #3177 is SUPER easy to make… once you figure out how to start it! In this video, I’m breaking down this 12-string friendship bracelet pattern and working backwards through the design to find a clean, attractive starting point. The pattern uses three colors …
What happens when you take an existing friendship bracelet pattern, figure out how it works, and then start changing it? In this video, I’m working from friendship-bracelets.net pattern #2726—but rather than simply copying the pattern, I’m breaking down where the strings travel, experimenting with the …
Today we’re not just following a friendship bracelet pattern—we’re taking one apart and seeing what ELSE it can become. 🧵 I’m starting with pattern #2749 from friendship-bracelets.net, but the goal is definitely not to reproduce it exactly. Mandy suggested trying some purples and pinks, so …
What happens when you take a friendship bracelet pattern you like… and start changing it? In this video, I’m working from pattern #7487 as inspiration, but Mandy’s take on the design has changed it so much that we’re definitely heading into something new. I’m taking …
I’m going back to friendship-bracelets.net pattern #7487—but I don’t want to make the same bracelet again. Last time, I took this ribbon-inspired design and created a fold in the middle. I really liked how that turned out, but if I’m going to revisit the idea, …
Can I take this friendship bracelet design and make the boxes even SMALLER? That’s today’s experiment! I’ve been playing with this box-style pattern for a while, but this time I wanted to see what would happen if I reduced each section to just four little …