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Hi. This is Megan with Beadaholique.com Today I'm going to show you how to make
a macrame sliding knot clasp.
It's a really good way to finish a macrame bracelet like a Shamballa
bracelet or just a good adjustable way to finish any kind of corded work.
So
you can see how to do a macrame square knot in
another video and if you don't know how to do that go ahead and watch that
video first "How to Make a Macrame Square Knot"
This is going to be using the same principles as
that it's going to be make square knots.
What you'll is a basically
have your work
and you'll take the ends of your work and loop them around
and have both ends
parallel to each other. Just like that.
Then you're going to take
another
strand of cord.
I'm using
waxed cotton cord. You can use any kind of cord that you want for the style of
macrame knotting
and you'll just use the same cord that's used for the body of the bracelet.
So
when I'm going to make my sliding knot clasp, I'm going to take
you probably want
a little over a foot length for your knot clasp
just go ahead and put it
inside
the bracelet loop
thread it about the middle so that you have half of it
on either side.
Then you're going to tie
a few square knots
in that.
The number of knots that you put
in your sliding
knot clasp
will depend on how wide you want the clasp to be.
So I would say you probably want to do two or three square knots
just to have a clasp nice and stable.
But you can make a wider if you like.
And the important part is to make sure that
while you're
pulling your knots relatively tight to make them uniform you wanna still be
able to pull on the ends of your center cord
and move that around so that you can adjust the bracelet.
I'm just going to go ahead and just do
three square knots on this clasp
Then you would finished off
your clasp
just the same way that you would any other macrame knotting
and you could see how to do that on the video how to finish off macrame knotting.
And once you finish that off you'll see that you can
pull on the ends
of the center cord of the bracelet
to make it smaller
or larger. So you can also pull it
open to put it on
and then pull on the ends
to have it more fitted around your wrist.
So once you finish off
the knot that is going to be what you're sliding knot clasp
looks like.
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