r/friendshipbracelets

Advice on keeping dowel steady (no BB#)

Advice on keeping dowel steady (no BB#)

I’m doing my first wall hanging (after doing a bunch of key chains) and I cannot get the dowel to not spin as I move it! I was hoping the clipboard would help but it doesn’t hold the dowel down and I feel like it still spins in the tape! Any advice for getting it to stay in place?

u/These_Act5273 — 3 hours ago

Such a cutie 🩷🩷 (DIY variation on BraceletBook 196617)

This variation is not posted on the website; I just changed the colours of it in my pdf of the pattern.

u/purupurpururin — 5 hours ago

RA start of year gifts/Need quick building patterns

Hello!!! I’m going to be an RA this coming school year, and I want to make my residents each a bracelet to break the ice after our first floor meeting!!!

I’ve been making tons of candy stripe and chevron, but I was wondering if there were any visually interesting patterns that build up pretty quickly! I’d consider myself at least intermediate, and I can read patterns!!

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u/alystic84 — 6 hours ago

Is there any way to end a bracelet with a loop?

Hi, I’m currently trying to make a phone strap/charm thing and I thought the best design might be one end that attaches to the phone and another end that’s threaded into the cord and acts as an adjustable strap type thing. However, this would require having a loop at both ends. Is this possible at all?

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u/freakinthe_sheets — 9 hours ago

What to knot with this shade as the main color? What color combos would look good with it?

It's equivalent to DMC 3855 (light autumn gold). It came in a bunch of thread sets I bought, and I don't think I've ever used this color, so it just keeps piling up. The ones in the picture aren't even all of it at this point I have like 20 skeins of this shade.

Does anyone know any normal bracelet patterns where this could be one of the main colors? Or even just some color combinations that look good with it? I'd love some ideas because I have way too much of this shade. I'm also open to alpha pattern recommendations if it's a pattern that would let me use up a lot of this thread color!

u/nicoleisttoll — 1 day ago

My first alpha!

Hi! here is my first alpha and also my first friendship bracelet in a while, I used to make normal ones a few years ago. Any advice on how to improve in future projects would be appreciated!

The pattern is #26251 on bracelet book :)

u/AwesomeAud0864 — 1 day ago

My first in a while [BB#30827]

Haven't touched string in a very long while. Decided to try a clean back alpha to get back into it. Could be better, could be worse. Front and back.

Does anyone recognize the (purple) 2nd L pattern? BB#?

I saw the picture on Pinterest with no additional information.
I tried looking back through more recent pattern asks on this sub but didn’t see this one yet. I’m sorry if someone’s already asked for this one!!
Thanks yall :)

u/demonsdancethedisco — 23 hours ago

BB #191159

this is my first ever thingy :3 made as a gift for a girl I like, her main hobby is hiking in the woods and collecting bones & feathers and her favorite animal is any kind of deer so when I saw this pattern I fell in love immediately...

u/betabxnny — 2 days ago

[NA] Searching for this pattern

hey yall i did this bracelet like 3years ago ? maybe 4? using a tutorial on youtube and i can’t find it anymore
i really wanted to do it again with other colors but i just can’t seem to find it
if it helps the tutorial used the type of yarn you can burn and burned 2 strings at the end, and it uses 8 strings to braid it

u/sakxraw — 1 day ago

thinking of getting my best friend something more permanent

making friendship bracelets for years mostly for my best friend. every year on his birthday i make him a new one with different colors and patterns. but we're in our 30s now he still wears them which is cool but i can tell they don't last. they stretch out, get dirty, eventually break.

been looking at metal options. like engraved bracelets or dog tags something that won't fall apart after a few months.

i know this sub is about thread bracelets and i love them. but has anyone here switched to something more durable for a long-time friend? feels weird to stop making them but also feels like we're getting too old for colorful thread

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u/trepasito16 — 2 days ago

Bunny! [BB#205861]

Started this a month ago but I stopped halfway through. Finally got to finishing it earlier this week 😍 This is a birthday present for a friend.

u/Main_State_1185 — 2 days ago

[NA] Can’t find a pattern for this - help!

I cannot seem to find a pattern for these bracelets - nothing similar shows up on bracelet book, and google image search turns up nothing! Anyone recognize it?

u/Low_Repeat_4522 — 2 days ago

I (we) are plural, and we wear our bracelets to show who is fronting. Finally completed this set for our three most common fronters, super happy with how they turned out ^_^ Bracelet Book #176715

(No it is not supposed to be the Jesus fish)

u/Aerithic2 — 4 days ago