How to Make Deadhead Bracelets
- 1). Cut a piece of embroidery thread a little longer than the distance from your fingertips to your elbow. This is the length you need to wrap around your wrist. Allow extra to make the bracelet long enough to tie off easily. If you are making the bracelet for a friend with a larger or smaller wrist, adjust accordingly. Cut equal lengths of each color of thread.
- 2). Gather one end of each piece of thread together and tie them in a loop. Then secure the loop so it won't move. The easiest way to do this is to hook it around your toe. You can also tape it to a table or clip it to a clipboard.
- 3). Spread the threads out side by side, from left to right, in the order you want the colored stripes to be in on the finished bracelet.
- 4). Take the thread on the farthest left. Cross it over the top of the thread next to it to create a number four. Wrap the first thread around underneath the second thread and up through the loop created by the first thread. Pull the first thread tight while pulling the second thread straight down and taut. You now have one knot made of your first thread. The thread that was farthest to the left is now the second thread over.
- 5). Take the same color thread you started with and repeat step 4, tying it to the next string in the row. This will form a second knot of your first color thread. Continue until you have made a knot of that color on all the other strings.
- 6). Start with the second color string, which is now the string on the farthest left of the row, and repeat step 4. Continue with every color string until you reach the end of the bracelet.
- 7). When your bracelet is as long as you want it, tie all the strings together in a single knot. You can braid the remainder of the string and tie a final knot to finish the bracelet.
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