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Making something for myself this time. My 20th bag made with the colors of my clipboard, which will be a bag specially designed to hold my traveler’s notebook. I’ve shown how to make bags before and with this series I’m hoping to do it again, …
Combining Ideas In this tutorial, I’m hoping to inspire you to try new things by combining the things I’ve already taught. I’m using the tube patter from the tutorial Tubular Friendship Bracelet and the No Pattern, No Problem to make something completely different. Difficult? Ok, …
How much string? For this project, I have 12 strands that are approx 2.7 meters in length. It really didn’t need to be so long, but I tend to use more than needed rather than risk it running out. Half of the length gets wound …
Update: The contest is over and here is what happened The original post… I had an idea for my next tutorial and was excited to make it, but it was getting late and I went to bed and by morning that idea I had become …
And now I present… Let’s review how we got here… Back to the topic at hand… Now, this is added as an intermediate tutorial as it’s based on an easy pattern, but it becomes complicated because of how hard it is to turn it into …
Taking a pattern and modifying it So if you saw my CNY bracelet you know that it’s got that Celtic look. Well, I can do more with that design than just one long interweaving pattern. Here I’ll show how I went from the CNY design …
Here we go again without a pattern. It’s as easy as creating a concept and sticking to the rules you made. More Examples! So, that wasn’t so hard right? Here I’ve added some variants on this idea. Boom! So much to work with! Hopefully, you …
Looking to create bracelets without patterns? This friendship bracelet may look complex but if you’re interested in making it, I’m here making it easy for you. Consider this is just the bigging of a number of possible combinations. So watch the tutorial and then check …
So I started out experimenting on how to incorporate characters into friendship bracelets without resorting to using alphas, because that’s really not my thing. If you’ve been following my work, you’d know that I made a phone/spectacles case that was also a nod to the …
Many of you have been asking for nice bracelet patterns that a beginner can handle. Well, since I’ve been working on a matching set of bracelets for a family to wear during the upcoming Hari Raya festivities, I figured, why not kill two birds with …
Apparently, some people were having trouble making the graph paper. Some of you may not have a computer or know how to use image-editing software like Gimp or Photoshop. So I have something of a solution. I’ve created a series of graph paper in a …
Green and Celtic is an easy enough pattern that a beginner could make. I start in Gimp with making a 6 string pattern and follow only straight lines. This pattern lends itself to many possibilities but we are only exploring this one today. Once I …