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In this video i'm going to show you how you can use our new Hemptique cord
to make beautiful friendship bracelets.
The item number for this card of cording is HM2416.
It has four different colors on it and it's the "razzle dazzle" color scheme.
There's many different types of friendship bracelet patterns to learn -
the type that we're going to be learning today is the chevron pattern.
To begin, unravel the first color on your cording card
and you're going to unravel about an arm's length so about one meter worth
of cording.
Cut this from the spool and then measure out another length of that same color cording
in the exact same length as before.
Continue doing that for all four of the colors that are on your card.
After you're through with that, you're going to have eight cords of two colors
each.
With all of your cording, tie an overhand knot and leave about three
inches worth of tail at the end.
Now, as you can see on our demo bracelet here we have the overhead knot
up here at one end of the bracelet,
but on the other end of the bracelet we've done a bit of braiding right
before we did our overhand knot.
If you want to you can do some braiding -
just simple braiding -
You'll break this up into
three cords, two cords and then another three chords and then do a simple braid
for about one inch.
So to make things nice and simple, I'm going to start right into my pattern from
here without doing any braiding.
In order to effectively create this bracelet, you'll need to affix your bracelet to a
flat working surface. I have a binder clip here affixed to the back of a
jewelry display pad.
You can always use a clipboard or you can tape down the knot to a counter top
using packing tape or some really heavy scotch tape. So I'm simply going to take
the tail and fit it right into the end.
Now I am going to turn the board just a bit so that i can work with it
but i am going to show you exactly what i'm doing.
in order for this to show up with the exact same distinct color row for row,
you're going to separate your colors like this.
So before you start off on this pattern
try to make an imaginary line going between the two groups of four cords.
So over here on the left hand side we're gonna start things off with the blue, pink,
green and yellow.
Then you do the reverse for the right side;
yellow, green, pink, blue.
You're going to be doing essentially the same knot on either side you're just going to
be doing the reverse.
What i mean by that is you have a forward knot and you have a backward knot.
Over here on your left hand side you're going to be working with the forward knot.
Make a "4" with your cording.
You'll notice that the outside is over the inside color. Bring it around
and back up like this.
Then holding onto this pink cord,
I'm going to bring the blue cord up
like so.
Now when you're doing this you have to make sure that you do this two times for
each cording.
So we did our first one. Here's the second.
You're going to pull it fairly tight but you don't want to make it too tight. Nice and snug
actually what we're looking for.
Now what's going to happen is this blue cording is going to take the place of
the pink
and the pink is going to change
and be set off to the side.
So now you're pink is the outside color with your blue being the inside color.
so now you can decide to work the rest of this left hand side or you can come
over to the right hand side and just kind of mirror each cording as you're going
along. Just to make things nice and easy here at the beginning we're going to do just
that.
So over here on the right-hand side I've picked up my blue and pink cording again
and now we're going to do a backward knot. take this blue cording and make a
backwards looking "4" over the pink cording with it.
Bring the blue over the top and around the back.
Your going to hold onto this pink cording and then pull the blue cording to that the
knot is snug up at the top of the bracelet.
Make another backwards "4" over the pink cording
and then pull the blue outside cording so that the knots cinches up against the previous
knot.
Again, you're not going to pull this extremely tight.
Now this blue cording will be on the inside and the pink cording will be on
the outside.
Okay, so again we're going to pick up the blue cord,
this again is going to be our outside cord.
This green is going to be our inside cord
and again we're looking at making a "4".
this blue cord will lay on top of the green cord, come around the back
and then pull tight
and then do it again.
The green now has become our outside cord and the blue is still our outside cord. We can
now move this green cord off to the side, we're done with that for this row. Coming
over here to the right hand side the green is the inside, the blue is the
outside.
Make a backwards "4",
bring the cording around,
hold onto that green
and then pull.
Then repeat again.
Backwards "4",
take the blue cord around and pull.
Okay, we can move that green off to the side.
Now, all that we're left with is the yellow cording here on the inside.
Pick that up,
and you going to do just like you've done before - the blue is the outside cording
the yellow is the inside cording. Make a "4"
blue cording goes around
and then pull snug.
Then you can take that yellow and you can put that over there with the
green and pink cords.
Now to reposition and let me show you what happens here
on the right hand side.
Again,
just like before
backwards "4".
Bring it around, pull.
Backwards "4" again.
around...pull.
okay so we have the beginning of our knotting
but now we have these two blue cords that have become are two inside cords.
Well, what we do with these?
at this point it's up to you. You can do either a forward or backward knot
with these two cords.
I like doing forward knots.
so i'm going to make a "4", bring it around and back - just like I've always done
with the other cording on this bracelet,
and you do it twice just like you've done with all of the other cording on this bracelet.
Now you can bring all of your cording back down again.
Now you're ready to move onto your next row.
This pink cording is now going to be your outside cording, so you're going to treat it
like you did the blue cording before.
Repeat all of your steps as you've done before and continue to repeat them until
you have the length bracelet that you're looking for.
Here's something that i want to show you really quick,
when you continue to go through every single row it's going to end in a point.
To finish off your bracelet so that it's nice and flat -
begin to work the first two rows on your bracelet,
but you're not going to go all the way to the center.
So with this blue
i did the first two
strings.
On this yellow one, I only did the first string.
That'll leave you with all of these free strings here that when they get tied
together, or when you begin your braiding,
you're going to have a nice flat end.
From here you're going to take the rest of your cording and you can either end it
in an overhand knot just like you did over here on this other end of this bracelet - if
that's what you decide to do -
or if you began your bracelet with braiding, you can end it with braiding
over here on this end.
Only go for about and inch,
end in an overhand knot,
and then trim up the rest of your cording
so that it's nice and neat.
These friendship bracelets are typically made with the idea that you wear them
until they fall off.
What would wind up happening is that a bracelet would be made for somebody
the bracelet would be tied onto that person's wrist with the dream or a wish in
mind.
Then the person wears it around and until the bracelet falls off which at
that point in time, the dream or the wish comes true.
So you can either keep this for yourself or give it to a friend.
It's an easy and fun way to celebrate the upcoming summer season.