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Hi everybody, this is Jessica from JewelryTutorialHQ.com and Bespangled Jewelry.
Today I'm going to show you how to make a cool chunky woven bracelet from an old T-shirt.
To make your t-shirt yarn, first cut off the bottom hem of the shirt using sharp fabric
scissors.
Fold your shirt in half vertically and then cut straight across to make strips about an
inch to an inch-and-a-half wide. The wider the strips, the thicker and chunkier the bracelet.
I'm using strips about 1 inch wide. When you open up the strips, you'll have a loop which
we'll need to cut.
And I'm going to show you how to connect ends together to make a continuous piece of t-shirt yarn
that we can use to make our bracelet.
First overlap two of the ends facing each other by about half an inch. Fold them in
the middle and snip with the scissors to make a hole in both of the pieces.
Now overlap them again the same way. The piece that's on top - grab the tail end and from
underneath, pull it up through both holes all the way and pull it tight.
Now I have done this one more time so I have three strips of t-shirt yarn connected together
for a total of about 8.5 yards - a little bit over 100 inches, which is going to make
a bracelet woven on three fingers, which I'm going to show you how to do.
First you will grab one end of the strip with your thumb and pull the long end between your
first and second fingers, in front of your middle finger, behind your ring finger, in
front of your pinky and around, then in front of your ring finger, behind your middle finger,
then make one big loop around all three fingers, and then pull the loops over that new big
loop and slide your fingers back through.
And this is what's going to create the weave. And you do that again - make one big loop
around all three fingers and pull the loops up and over and your fingers go back through
to create the weave.
Now you just keep repeating this over and over checking your tension every once in awhile.
This is a little bit like knitting or crochet where your tension determines how even your
braiding is.
Now this type of weaving can also be done with two fingers or four fingers - the four
finger weave is going to give you an even thicker bracelet and two fingers will give
you a thinner one.
I'm showing you this with 3 fingers - it's basically the same technique, you would just
loop around a different number of fingers in the beginning.
So now I've done this about four or five times, I'm going to let go of the piece I'm holding
with my thumb and pull it. You'll see the weave is starting to develop here.
Pull it tight and you can continue with the same process - looping around all three fingers
and pulling the smaller loops over and your fingers through.
And keep doing that until you have only about 4 or 5 inches left. Now, I sped up the video
here so I am already done and I'll show you how to finish this off.
Carefully slide the loops off your fingers, making sure you keep them intact.
And bring that tail around and through all three of the loops and pull it tight and that's
going to make a nice secure knot.
Now we can just tie these ends together in a double knot. You don't have to make it so
you can untie this knot because the bracelet is going to be stretchy so it should fit over
your hand without having to untie it.
Now I'm going to tie this one into a bow and then just trim off the ends.
And that's it, we're all done, we have a cool bracelet that was woven from an old t-shirt!
I hope you had fun and I'd love to see you again soon!
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or visit my bead shop on Etsy at BespangledBeads.etsy.com.
Thanks for watching!