The Beginner's Guide to Friendship Bracelets: Essential Lessons for Creating Stylish Designs to Wear and Give

by Masha Knots

Overview

Celebrate your relationships and express your style with the ultimate guide to creating friendship bracelets! Friendship bracelets aren’t just for summer camp anymore. They have exploded in popularity as a creative and thoughtful way to share a connection with loved ones, even from far away. Author Masha Knots is the go-to friendship bracelet expert, she has amassed a following on YouTube and Instagram for her colorful, creative designs and her easy-to-follow instructions. Now, with this book she is sharing all her bracelet tips and tricks as well as her favorite designs.

Featuring an array of patterns from simple to more advanced, Masha will cover all the basics needed to get started, including the best materials to use, knotting techniques, and easy embellishments and customization tricks for adding your own flair. Whether creating a one-of-a-kind gift for a friend or stylish accessories for yourself, this book will make anyone a bracelet making pro.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681988610
Publisher:	Rocky Nook
Publication date:	08/23/2022
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	319,705
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Masha Knots is a handmade crafter and online content creator based in London. With over a decade of experience in making friendship bracelets out of embroidery floss, Masha creates video guides on her YouTube channel explaining the ins and outs of bracelet making. Her online tutorials range from simple bracelets explained step by step for beginners to more advanced friendship bracelet techniques and designs for the more experienced. Masha started her bracelet journey in 2009 when a friend taught her how to make a basic design over the summer. She quickly learned more advanced techniques and what could have been a simple summer activity turned into a lifelong hobby and career. She posted her first video tutorial on YouTube in the summer of 2010 when she discovered that very few tutorials are available online and realised she has the opportunity to help others learn the craft. After creating several video tutorials on and off from 2010-2015 Masha started uploading videos to her channel consistently in 2018 and by 2021 has amassed over 120,000 viewers sharing her passion for the craft. Now Masha is sharing her vast experience in friendship bracelet making in the form of a book to help even more people discover their passion for knotting.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 What is a Friendship Bracelet? 3

Chapter 2 String Types 7

Chapter 3 Useful Bracelet-Making Tools 13

Chapter 4 Basic Friendship Bracelet Knots 19

Chapter 5 Simple Bracelets 31

Chapter 6 Normal Bracelet Patterns 63

Chapter 7 Alpha Bracelet Patterns 77

Chapter 8 String Lengths 89

Chapter 9 Bracelet Starts and Ends 93

Chapter 10 Common Mistakes and How to Fix Them 119

Chapter 11 Embellishments 123

Chapter 12 Photo Gallery 129

Acknowledgments 136

About the Author 137

Index 138