11:37 candy stripes are a little tricky to keep the edges straight and not curled since all the knots are made in the same direction. Mine curled a lot too when I first started so I had to iron them to straighten them out. What I noticed is if I made the knots too tight the candy stripe would curl up. Making the knots loose (but not too loose) would probably help, but again it takes practice to get the tension right and the knots even! Hope that helps!
IKR my tension ain;t as questionable as one would expect it to be [i've only made 3-4 bracelets altogether] and I've only missed knots once or twice! [but only the fishbone chev and the normal chev where you're supposed to memorise them]
Oh man, when I first started I was obsessive over fixing my mistakes, so I don’t actually have any, but one (my very first one), bracelet from that time that has many mistakes. I used to spend several days on a bracelet because I was too careful. I’m thankful I’m more relaxed now though, as I can get through a bracelet in a few hours now.
lol same i had the smallest mistake in the bracelet i was making last week, and i threw it in my string bin. my mom she was organizing my strings and she found 20 uncomplete bracelets. lol im such a perfectionist
When I started making bracelets, I started with the candy stripes because that’s the only one I could do😂😂 Edit:OMG THANK YOU FOR 100 LIKES!!!! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST😃
12:28 - I've found that if you don't sit at an angle and/or it doesn't move around while you're making it, it comes out straight. The trick is to always always make sure when tying knots, you pull the string in the same direction and angle every time, make sure it doesn't twist (always flat and face up) and prevent the bracelet from moving as it gets longer. So anchoring it as you go (with tape or pins) and tying your knots near and not far like is mentioned at around 2:01 . Also I never tried the straight edge technique and never heard of it until now
Very helpful video regarding common mistakes. I see two more common errors: 1. Uneven Spacing Of Letters. *The ideal is to get each letter covering the same width (and length), otherwise, they shouldn't be more than one row wider than the rest (like the letter 'M'). * To help, you can Google & print out a chosen pixelation of the alphabet, or you can draw your own using a graph sheet/book, making sure to draw each letter in the same sized rectangle. *Make sure that the grid accommodates the number of strings that you're using PLUS an extra row & column at each end (Top, Bottom, Left, Right) 2. Making Letters To The Edge *To correct this, add an extra string or two of the background colour to both sides of the bracelet ( top & bottom of the letters). #KnotsOfLove :)
I always thought my old bracelets were AWFUL like actual trash (thought they were great when i did them tho) but i actually looked back at them and they're honestly not that bad 😂😂 definitely some beginner mistakes made but not bad
as i’m watching this video im making a friendship bracelet, and my dog went from chewing on her toy to chewing on another bracelet that was still in progress:/
so something i noticed while doing bracelets recently, if i don't pull the knots AS tight, i don't get the cinched in or wavy look, even with the straight edge technique. it's because you're pulling a little harder or the string itself is of different quality than the others. the ones i did past couple of days do have a slight wavy/cinched look to them, but not as bad as some others i've done previously. i like tight knots, but if it starts pulling the bracelet a certain way, i start loosening just slightly. i will also often go in and wiggle and "stretch" the bracelet as i work to pull the cinched sides out a bit more straighter.
Halfway through my first arrowhead bracelet (my first more advanced bracelet) I noticed it was turning out more squashed and uneven. Knowing that I should pull the string by the base of the knot - not further away from it - made it look so much neater :D
For the dog bracelet with the gap, I think that person divided it into 2 alpha bracelets by separating the background and the dog. I can see that it wasn't 1 consistent row.
yes I was gonna say that too. it looks like she accidentally made the bracelet into two separate bracelets at that point instead of connecting strings that should've been knotted together around that area.
actually it is like that as she had to put multiple knots on the same row according to the pattern which looks the same for me too every single time but im not a beginner so i’m wondering how would you guys go about that if that’s what the pattern says ?
@@mintdotx once you change from dog to background (or the other way) you need to loop the old sting in with the next knot. Then the old string down so it doesn't poke up. This loops the 2 parts of the bracelet together. Masha said she moves the strings out the way but that's not a good idea.
@@hannahbd9 yeaaah! It's like a sandwich, when You are going to continue with another color You make the first part of the knot, then you put the previous color in the way, then you make the second part of the knot so the previous color is in between, now you put the previous color out of the way in the back, so you keep all the bracelet together 🌸
When I first started making bracelets I didnt really know how to knot properly and I was doing half knots throughout the entire bracelet and all my bracelets were ridiculously stretchy and loose
One thing that MAY help candy stripes lay flat is "filling in the corners." Start without a knot, make the bracelet, and at the end decrease your knots in each row by 2 until you have only one knot left, making the bottom flat. (I.e. if you were making an 8-string candy stripe, at the bottom you'd make a row of 7 knots, 5, 3, and then 1.) Flip the bracelet, do the same on the top, and finish off as desired. This creates more of a flat band than the oblique ribbon formed by not filling in the corners.
I make candy-striped bracelets. It's the only kind I know how to make. I used to have a tension problem with them too, but I learned (from another video) that the thread is being pulled up too tightly to the point where the bracelets would curve in on themselves so now what do is I pull the first thread up lightly and the second thread up slightly tighter to bring them closer together. Ever since I started doing this I no longer have my bracelets curving on me.
xLeah ugh you so rude.. it’s not what you are supposed to focus on in this video also it’s none of your business-.- go give some love to yourself and be more polite
in my experience with strings breaking, the best way to prevent it and being able to tie as tight as you want it using embroidery floss that is NOT braided or twisted. in the video she uses braided string from loops and threads, and this stuff tends to stress break so easily. i use dmc floss which comes in tons of colors and finishes, its about 30¢ per skein for the normal stuff. it holds up super well!!
I have a horrible time with craft thread snapping for me as well! I’ve been making bracelets for 14 years and avoid that stuff like the plague. That being said, if you don’t pull on your strings as hard as I do you may not have that problem! 😂
the hole in the dog bracelet. this happened because 2 different colors ended in same place on multiple rows, this happened to me. to solve the problem if row is going from left to right make sure after tying last knot of one color to put that thread to the right of the bracelet so don't put it to the left side so when bringing in the next thread color the threads need to mingle or cross over each other on the backside to close that loop hole when the knot is tied with new color. same idea when going from right to left. Summary. after completing a knot to change colors cross over the thread on the backside when the pattern calls for two or more rows where the color changeover happens in same place from one row to next. Hope it makes sense. I love your videos Masha!
I started learning to make friendship bracelets during quarintine, and when I started I always tied it wayyyyyyy too tight, leading to thread riping, and halfway through it started to mess up.
Your videos are always super informative ! Thank you for making them ! Also, I can't wait for your next video on alpha bracelets, I always struggle to make them straight ^^
My first time making bracelets was so-so, the patterns were mostly tricolored candy stripe and chevrons, but the issue was the length of the strings, and the end result of my first bracelet was smaller than my small wrists. Back then the length was about less than half of my arm span. Now I know it should actually be an arm span length.
with the dog one the girl started from both sides but forgot to connect the two sides. hence why there is a gap. this happened to me. all you have to do is connect the two together in a VERYY tight knot
and how do you do that without ruining the pattern there because of it? she didn’t forget to connect it, that’s how the pattern shows it so it’s not quiet obvious
@@mintdotx It's like a sandwich, when you are going to continue with another color You make the first part of the knot, then you put the previous color in the way, then you make the second part of the knot so the previous color is in between, now you put the previous color out of the way in the back, so you keep all the bracelet together 🌸
If your bracelet are twisting but you don’t want to losing the knots, tape down where the edge of the strings are, use two strings next to each other instead of one, also if you don’t have a hair straightener tape it to a table and hairspray it!
for the bracelet club theres a chunk above the koala that is a different color and its separated like that becuase when you do alphas, the colors will leave small holes when you change then unless you have a big chunk
For the one with the bear with the hole in it at 17:00 i had that happen it means you skipped over a string and didnt knot it so if you had 8 strings you might have forgot to pair one of them thus a hole appears so you would have to untie it and not skip it
i make bracelets all the time. lol i am actually working on an alpha pattern right now: when doing candy stripes, the key is to not pull too hard because that can result in the uneven lines. the candy stripe requires a night balanced tension when making it. i hope that helped the 2nd instagram picture!! 😊
Thanks alot for inspiring me. I was so sad that I messed up the bracelet I made for my friend but ur inspiration told me to keep gng on and that even for u it was the same. Thank you!❤💙💚💛💜💓💕💖💗💝💞💟
I have a question that I can't find an answer for, why is it when I'm pulling my knot tight, the colour underneath (the one I tied a knot onto) shows through?
that happens to me, that means you are pulling too tight (i think) because when i pull too tight that happens. you can fix it preferably with undoing the knot with a needle, or just pulling on the string, but pulling could cause problems so just undo it with a knot
i have a question! so you know for patterns one side (arrow head pattern) one side of the arrow is longward and one is more tight, how to make them look the same
That usually happens because you're more comfortable doing one type of knot over the other so I'd recommend practicing the one you're not that comfortable doing to even them out
For the hole it could be that they forgot to go i front of the string they were replacing. Like you go behind the base and in front of the background colour. They forgot to go in front therefore ‘disconnecting’ the strings and making a hole.
The dog one makes me a little frustrated to be honest because she’s followed that BraceletBook pattern exactly. HOWEVER, she followed the knotted diagram and not the graph. If you look at the knotted diagram they have no strings carrying behind that point and without ‘locking’ that string in behind, the pattern literally has a hole in it. I’ve seen this in a few of the updated alpha knotting diagrams just never so big.
Ive been making bracelets for a while but mine still look super bumpy and uneven! The tip about pulling the string closer to the knot was helpful i was wondering if you had any other similar tips! Thank you!
Idk if anyone else gave these tips but 1. For candy stripe I used a clipboard but I kept adjusting so that it clipped the bracelet right about where I was working but I it it straight so that the candy stripe slant was visible and maintained. My bracelet came out pretty straight I think and I didn’t use the straight edges technique there. You can see it in my insta @thesarafinsta 2. For the hole in the alpha, that happened to me today when I tried my first alpha. That’s when I switched the colour threads incorrectly. So the new thread knots did not include the previous leading colour. I had to undo the knots and redo, making sure that the previous colour was passed through and the second half of the new knot was formed on top of it.
I tried to make a chevron bracelet and the pattern itself on the bracelet looks fine but there are indents where some line of string are and I don’t know if it’s from tying the string too tight or something else. I don’t really know how tight I should tie my knots and that’s why all my bracelets look wonky. Please help.
I’m not sure if everyone struggles with this also but when I make a bracelet like a chevron the front looks great, no mistakes, but when I flip it over I can see the string under the knot for almost all of my knots, any tips on how to fix this?
Sorry I'm not entirely sure I know what you mean. Place a piece of carton vertical or horizontal to the bracelet or what? Move the piece of carton down or the bracelet?
@@themeltedchocolate I juse the carton as a guideline were I should place my knot and it makes it easier to stay straight if I just consecrate on the stripes I currently make and move it down
16:58 might be a color switching issue? I think they’re using a white color and a cream color and maybe they didn’t switch the white into the cream while knitting. I could be totally wrong, it’s really hard to tell
For the last bracelet that you were going over it looks like this person was doing the bracelet normally but then added a string on the opposite side they were working on which created the hole (does that make any sense) this person was doing forward knots and then had to add in a colour but added it to the wrong side and started doing backward knots (also i know this is a really old video but if someone is learning this might help them) :)
I’m trying to do a Batman alpha rn and it’s my second ever alpha the first was sunflowers but it wasn’t finished and accidentally got trashed I think and the sunflower one looked good but the Batman one looks trash and I haven’t even got to the Batman part yet. Do u have any tips on how to not make the start of a bracelet look trash I did the tear drop loop and the loop looks fine but it’s the start of the knots after it they were being difficult and look ugly
I want to learn hoy to make the ring(? thing at the beginning of the bracelet more neat, I mean, I have seen some that look kinda knitted too, and I don’t actually know how to achieve that ;(
We need a drinking game for how often she references her cousin making a mistake. Then admittedly she was left on her own to flail around only for you to use it as content fodder later?
I know this is really delayed but the the person making the dog one separated it into two bracelets (as you can see at the edges of the hole) and reconnected it.
Another mistake could be, that I did in my case, was to put two threads to form a bigger one and that the bracelet was bigger. After making one with a single thread, I was able to know that I do them well, the only thing was that when I put two in it, I altered the design. 😭😭
help i’m trying to do a bracelet and i did one of the fancy loops in the beginning and i’m trying to stitch words into the bracelet. but with the loop there’s a big gap in my bracelet. either that or the bracelet is too skinny helpp
I wish I was taught how to do a shower on first I was taught how to do it forward not candy stripe and so when I learned that I had to do back or not as well it was a lot harder for me to learn them because I was already more used to doing Fortnite and I was good at 40 nights but I eventually figured it out but I’ve always been a little bit better at four or not because of learning on candy stripe so I highly recommend that anybody who wants to start making friendship bracelets starts with Chevron
so i know how to make chevrons and stuff and i have made a good chevron before, but there were some small holes in mine, do you know what to do for that? they aren’t that big of a deal but i don’t like them and i know that i can fix them somehow
Well, the question was not to me, but i'd like to help you and answer that I usually make a few knots in the back and cut the exess (oh i'm sorry i forgot how to spell it right)
PLEASE HELP I just made my first bracelet it was the spiral one. And for some reason all my string just kept getting shorter and when I went to make the knot all the short string got tangled, and when I was finishing it off all the string was uneven. But also some of my ‘spirals’ didn’t go all the way around 😭
Theres a "mistake" I keep doing whrn I do my chevrons and its annoying, I dont know how to fix it. Whenevr I am doing a backward knots, so the right side of my chevron, some of my knots somehow pulls a bit on the previous string I used, amd it peaks through. I dont know why it does that I hate it. I tried fixing it by doing looser knits, but then theres holes and I can see through it and I dont like it more. Any tips, anyone??
i had this type of thing going on as well, and what I did was change my string to a thicker one. I bought them at walmart for 5 dollars, lots of colors! And when I made my first chevron with them I did not see the previous string or anything. The thickness is so nice as well, i love it! The name of the strings was "Coats & Clark® Jumbo Value 105-Pack Multicolor Embroidery Floss, 8.75 Yards"
I dont know if anyone has commented on the mistake made by the.bracelet.club and I think its because the maker of the bracelet forgot to connect the bracelet both on the same and next row all the maker did was focus on the pig fom the cartoon Moana and not completing the whole row ( sorry my comment is quite long ).
I just do forward backwards or backwards forwards on those ones so if my string was going from the left to the right on an alpha I will to a backwards forwards on the last string and then start doing forwards knots on the string next to it, once I have done all the knots on that row but the one base string furthest to the left I will do a forwards backwards and then start doing forwards knots. (Hope that made sense) BE CAREFUL because the first time I tried this I pulled an edge base string out so make sure you are very careful with those.
So I know you said you done a video on how to add string on alpha, but maybe you could do one on a normal pattern because for some reason I can't visualize it. I've tried practicing adding on a string to the normal pattern, but can't seem to get. Its cool if you don't, but I'm more of a visual learner.
@@michellegabel8109 it's literally the exact same thing. You tie the string on where you need it and put the loose end behind the bracelet and just continue using the new string
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11:37 candy stripes are a little tricky to keep the edges straight and not curled since all the knots are made in the same direction. Mine curled a lot too when I first started so I had to iron them to straighten them out.
What I noticed is if I made the knots too tight the candy stripe would curl up. Making the knots loose (but not too loose) would probably help, but again it takes practice to get the tension right and the knots even!
Hope that helps!
I'm gonna have to try making looser knots, mine tend to be rather tight, thank you!
I have learned that double knowing will prevent curling
@@Weber-od5es do you mean double knotting? And does that mean making four separate knots cause um that's a lot haha
themeltedchocolate when you do your forward knots do 2 instead of just one, like 2 on top of eachother :)
Sabrina Domingo thank uuuuuuuuuuu
not to brag or anything but when i first started i kinda skipped most of the mistakes except for other colors peaking through.
IKR my tension ain;t as questionable as one would expect it to be [i've only made 3-4 bracelets altogether] and I've only missed knots once or twice! [but only the fishbone chev and the normal chev where you're supposed to memorise them]
Same I fixed it after a couple times
Do the other colors always peak through on the back of the bracelet?
@@radish3976 pretty much. Untill you have been doing it for like a century they will prob poke through
Madi York same. i have started
Video title change: me roasting my cousins friendship bracelet skills
Lol
All the way 100%
Yep. My thoughts too.
It was really good especially for a 9 year old lol
i remember when i was a beginner, making the wave, and fishbone bracelets, ahh the good old days...
please tell me it gets easier
@@meghancepeda trust me it does. once you get the hang of it and continue to push yourself, the improvement will be noticeable!
Oh man, when I first started I was obsessive over fixing my mistakes, so I don’t actually have any, but one (my very first one), bracelet from that time that has many mistakes. I used to spend several days on a bracelet because I was too careful. I’m thankful I’m more relaxed now though, as I can get through a bracelet in a few hours now.
lol same i had the smallest mistake in the bracelet i was making last week, and i threw it in my string bin. my mom she was organizing my strings and she found 20 uncomplete bracelets. lol im such a perfectionist
@@maalikamehta2820 oMg I have like 20 in my little pouch of unfinished bracelets ;^;
Idk if this was mentioned but I always struggle with the backs of my bracelets looking horrible but the front looks fine
It's the back for a reason, it's not meant to look good
Just look at alphas thats a mess
@@kenziemioh354 dont get me started
Masha Knots phew
Life is like that, there is a hole history behind the beautiful result
When I started making bracelets, I started with the candy stripes because that’s the only one I could do😂😂
Edit:OMG THANK YOU FOR 100 LIKES!!!! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST😃
I started with the spiral ones
Izzy Animations Same, I think it is the most simple one.
I stared with chevrons 😂
Izzy Animations same
I started with the fish braid
12:28 - I've found that if you don't sit at an angle and/or it doesn't move around while you're making it, it comes out straight. The trick is to always always make sure when tying knots, you pull the string in the same direction and angle every time, make sure it doesn't twist (always flat and face up) and prevent the bracelet from moving as it gets longer. So anchoring it as you go (with tape or pins) and tying your knots near and not far like is mentioned at around 2:01 .
Also I never tried the straight edge technique and never heard of it until now
8:13 bracelet therapy encouragement advice time with masha
😂😂
Very helpful video regarding common mistakes. I see two more common errors:
1. Uneven Spacing Of Letters.
*The ideal is to get each letter covering the same width (and length), otherwise, they shouldn't be more than one row wider than the rest (like the letter 'M').
* To help, you can Google & print out a chosen pixelation of the alphabet, or you can draw your own using a graph sheet/book, making sure to draw each letter in the same sized rectangle.
*Make sure that the grid accommodates the number of strings that you're using PLUS an extra row & column at each end (Top, Bottom, Left, Right)
2. Making Letters To The Edge
*To correct this, add an extra string or two of the background colour to both sides of the bracelet ( top & bottom of the letters).
#KnotsOfLove :)
Great tips! Thanks for sharing!
My first bracelet had soooo many holes it was like a net
I always thought my old bracelets were AWFUL like actual trash (thought they were great when i did them tho) but i actually looked back at them and they're honestly not that bad 😂😂 definitely some beginner mistakes made but not bad
Yeah, I regret giving up on some bracelets I started that had potential, but you live and learn
as i’m watching this video im making a friendship bracelet, and my dog went from chewing on her toy to chewing on another bracelet that was still in progress:/
Aww haha I'm so sorry! Hope you can fix it
i did the teardrop loop and unfortunately she chewed right through it! it’s okay because i wasn’t too far into it
it's not that i skipped the mistakes but i'm too obsessive and fixed it every two minutes
so something i noticed while doing bracelets recently, if i don't pull the knots AS tight, i don't get the cinched in or wavy look, even with the straight edge technique. it's because you're pulling a little harder or the string itself is of different quality than the others. the ones i did past couple of days do have a slight wavy/cinched look to them, but not as bad as some others i've done previously. i like tight knots, but if it starts pulling the bracelet a certain way, i start loosening just slightly. i will also often go in and wiggle and "stretch" the bracelet as i work to pull the cinched sides out a bit more straighter.
Yes how to keep alphas straight THANK U LUV U
Halfway through my first arrowhead bracelet (my first more advanced bracelet) I noticed it was turning out more squashed and uneven. Knowing that I should pull the string by the base of the knot - not further away from it - made it look so much neater :D
For the dog bracelet with the gap, I think that person divided it into 2 alpha bracelets by separating the background and the dog. I can see that it wasn't 1 consistent row.
yes I was gonna say that too. it looks like she accidentally made the bracelet into two separate bracelets at that point instead of connecting strings that should've been knotted together around that area.
actually it is like that as she had to put multiple knots on the same row according to the pattern
which looks the same for me too every single time but im not a beginner
so i’m wondering how would you guys go about that if that’s what the pattern says ?
@@mintdotx once you change from dog to background (or the other way) you need to loop the old sting in with the next knot. Then the old string down so it doesn't poke up. This loops the 2 parts of the bracelet together. Masha said she moves the strings out the way but that's not a good idea.
@@hannahbd9 yeaaah! It's like a sandwich, when You are going to continue with another color You make the first part of the knot, then you put the previous color in the way, then you make the second part of the knot so the previous color is in between, now you put the previous color out of the way in the back, so you keep all the bracelet together 🌸
This is such a great video! Definitely taking some of the advice mentioned. Can't wait for the next video!
When I first started making bracelets I didnt really know how to knot properly and I was doing half knots throughout the entire bracelet and all my bracelets were ridiculously stretchy and loose
same!
Oof..
Same here 😬
One thing that MAY help candy stripes lay flat is "filling in the corners." Start without a knot, make the bracelet, and at the end decrease your knots in each row by 2 until you have only one knot left, making the bottom flat. (I.e. if you were making an 8-string candy stripe, at the bottom you'd make a row of 7 knots, 5, 3, and then 1.) Flip the bracelet, do the same on the top, and finish off as desired. This creates more of a flat band than the oblique ribbon formed by not filling in the corners.
I make candy-striped bracelets. It's the only kind I know how to make. I used to have a tension problem with them too, but I learned (from another video) that the thread is being pulled up too tightly to the point where the bracelets would curve in on themselves so now what do is I pull the first thread up lightly and the second thread up slightly tighter to bring them closer together. Ever since I started doing this I no longer have my bracelets curving on me.
This is kinda weird but as someone who used to paint my nails a lot, I really want to push back your cuticles
xLeah ugh you so rude.. it’s not what you are supposed to focus on in this video also it’s none of your business-.- go give some love to yourself and be more polite
@@mintdotx how is being rude?
@@mintdotx *cough* snowflake*cough*
Eszter Fehér that’s not even rude , what is your problem
Lol eszter that’s not even rude....
i was looking back on my old bracelets compared to the ones i make now and i’m so happy i kept up with making bracelets
in my experience with strings breaking, the best way to prevent it and being able to tie as tight as you want it using embroidery floss that is NOT braided or twisted. in the video she uses braided string from loops and threads, and this stuff tends to stress break so easily. i use dmc floss which comes in tons of colors and finishes, its about 30¢ per skein for the normal stuff. it holds up super well!!
I don't know if I agree! I've had similar experiences with both types of thread. Neither of them break often for me at all though tbh :D
I have a horrible time with craft thread snapping for me as well! I’ve been making bracelets for 14 years and avoid that stuff like the plague. That being said, if you don’t pull on your strings as hard as I do you may not have that problem! 😂
Thanks for the help with the alpha bracelet mistakes because when I was doing the letters too loose and I didn’t realize that until I watched this :)
the hole in the dog bracelet.
this happened because 2 different colors ended in same place on multiple rows,
this happened to me.
to solve the problem if row is going from left to right make sure after tying last knot of one color to put that thread to the right of the bracelet so don't put it to the left side so when bringing in the next thread color the threads need to mingle or cross over each other on the backside to close that loop hole when the knot is tied with new color.
same idea when going from right to left.
Summary. after completing a knot to change colors cross over the thread on the backside when the pattern calls for two or more rows where the color changeover happens in same place from one row to next.
Hope it makes sense.
I love your videos Masha!
I ❤️ that you do this for your viewers ‼️🙏😻😻😻
I started learning to make friendship bracelets during quarintine, and when I started I always tied it wayyyyyyy too tight, leading to thread riping, and halfway through it started to mess up.
The first scene with that bracelet made my bones retract thinking about how I used to do all of these things
Your videos are always super informative ! Thank you for making them ! Also, I can't wait for your next video on alpha bracelets, I always struggle to make them straight ^^
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy them! The alpha video won't be my next but will be coming soon :)
@@MashaKnots Ahah no problem, I have patience ^^ take your time !
My first time making bracelets was so-so, the patterns were mostly tricolored candy stripe and chevrons, but the issue was the length of the strings, and the end result of my first bracelet was smaller than my small wrists. Back then the length was about less than half of my arm span. Now I know it should actually be an arm span length.
with the dog one the girl started from both sides but forgot to connect the two sides. hence why there is a gap. this happened to me. all you have to do is connect the two together in a VERYY tight knot
That was me. Thank you so much!
@@adiplodino7791 anytime
and how do you do that without ruining the pattern there because of it?
she didn’t forget to connect it, that’s how the pattern shows it so it’s not quiet obvious
@@mintdotx you have the old string in the new knot so they connect, but the old one isn't peaking up.
@@mintdotx It's like a sandwich, when you are going to continue with another color You make the first part of the knot, then you put the previous color in the way, then you make the second part of the knot so the previous color is in between, now you put the previous color out of the way in the back, so you keep all the bracelet together 🌸
If your bracelet are twisting but you don’t want to losing the knots, tape down where the edge of the strings are, use two strings next to each other instead of one, also if you don’t have a hair straightener tape it to a table and hairspray it!
for the bracelet club theres a chunk above the koala that is a different color and its separated like that becuase when you do alphas, the colors will leave small holes when you change then unless you have a big chunk
For the one with the bear with the hole in it at 17:00 i had that happen it means you skipped over a string and didnt knot it so if you had 8 strings you might have forgot to pair one of them thus a hole appears so you would have to untie it and not skip it
It's not because a skipped knot because it would still be 2 separate parts, you need to have the old string looped in the new knot
i make bracelets all the time. lol i am actually working on an alpha pattern right now: when doing candy stripes, the key is to not pull too hard because that can result in the uneven lines. the candy stripe requires a night balanced tension when making it. i hope that helped the 2nd instagram picture!! 😊
Thanks alot for inspiring me. I was so sad that I messed up the bracelet I made for my friend but ur inspiration told me to keep gng on and that even for u it was the same. Thank you!❤💙💚💛💜💓💕💖💗💝💞💟
I have a question that I can't find an answer for, why is it when I'm pulling my knot tight, the colour underneath (the one I tied a knot onto) shows through?
that happens to me, that means you are pulling too tight (i think) because when i pull too tight that happens. you can fix it preferably with undoing the knot with a needle, or just pulling on the string, but pulling could cause problems so just undo it with a knot
pull tight but just a bit tightly
that happens to me pretty frequently, you can try holding the string your knotting on firmly to prevent it from popping up :))
Push your knots up while knotting while holding the string you're tying on
So basically try pulling the string upward that won’t happen if you pull it upward instead of sideways :)
Okay, you have family EVERYWHERE
17:01 didnt tie them together
i have a question! so you know for patterns one side (arrow head pattern) one side of the arrow is longward and one is more tight, how to make them look the same
That usually happens because you're more comfortable doing one type of knot over the other so I'd recommend practicing the one you're not that comfortable doing to even them out
5:11 how to make bracelet with letters Plz make a vedio... Thanks 💛
It's called an alpha bracelet and I already have a tutorial on that!
For the hole it could be that they forgot to go i front of the string they were replacing. Like you go behind the base and in front of the background colour. They forgot to go in front therefore ‘disconnecting’ the strings and making a hole.
The dog one makes me a little frustrated to be honest because she’s followed that BraceletBook pattern exactly. HOWEVER, she followed the knotted diagram and not the graph. If you look at the knotted diagram they have no strings carrying behind that point and without ‘locking’ that string in behind, the pattern literally has a hole in it. I’ve seen this in a few of the updated alpha knotting diagrams just never so big.
Huh, makes sense
Ive been making bracelets for a while but mine still look super bumpy and uneven! The tip about pulling the string closer to the knot was helpful i was wondering if you had any other similar tips! Thank you!
I found pulling it off to the side cause gaps in my first braclet and pulling up made it neater for future braclets I made
watching this before making my first chevron
Great video masha! It was really helpful
How were you able to tie your grandma's bracelet because i kinda forgot to do a braid at the beginning and i dont know how to tie it
Idk if anyone else gave these tips but 1. For candy stripe I used a clipboard but I kept adjusting so that it clipped the bracelet right about where I was working but I it it straight so that the candy stripe slant was visible and maintained. My bracelet came out pretty straight I think and I didn’t use the straight edges technique there. You can see it in my insta @thesarafinsta
2. For the hole in the alpha, that happened to me today when I tried my first alpha. That’s when I switched the colour threads incorrectly. So the new thread knots did not include the previous leading colour. I had to undo the knots and redo, making sure that the previous colour was passed through and the second half of the new knot was formed on top of it.
The bracelet club’s problem was switching strings wrong but if it’s only on a little part the you can switch strings right and it might look okay
I tried to make a chevron bracelet and the pattern itself on the bracelet looks fine but there are indents where some line of string are and I don’t know if it’s from tying the string too tight or something else. I don’t really know how tight I should tie my knots and that’s why all my bracelets look wonky. Please help.
I’m not sure if everyone struggles with this also but when I make a bracelet like a chevron the front looks great, no mistakes, but when I flip it over I can see the string under the knot for almost all of my knots, any tips on how to fix this?
When making candy bracelets, is it supposed to curl??
Likevel_ try and have a straight thing like a piece of carton and make sure to follow the line with that and move it down and you have a guideline
And whan it courls up iron it but with a wet cotton between the bracelet and the iron
Sorry I'm not entirely sure I know what you mean. Place a piece of carton vertical or horizontal to the bracelet or what? Move the piece of carton down or the bracelet?
@@themeltedchocolate I juse the carton as a guideline were I should place my knot and it makes it easier to stay straight if I just consecrate on the stripes I currently make and move it down
I always have my patterns on my phone and i lay a bracelet i made on the rows i have done haha
16:58 might be a color switching issue? I think they’re using a white color and a cream color and maybe they didn’t switch the white into the cream while knitting. I could be totally wrong, it’s really hard to tell
Thanks Maria soooo much for all your tutorials, they have helped me to better understand the process and I have gotten so much better, THANK YOU
Artist Irma Felicia Rodriguez Carey Masha* not Maria
@@ilovemycats3392 her real name is Maria tho
Does anybody know why my candy stripe bracelets never stay straight and curve to the left?
XXamelia XX it’s just cuz of the direction it goes. Just iron it. Or get it wet then flatten it out with something
Maggie Shiflet
Ok thank you!
Hello! I have a question about chevron bracelets, like your cousins mine have a lot of spaces/holes in it. How can I make sure that doesn’t happen?
16:40 I had this problem once when following a pattern and forgetting to do the middle rows that keep the two sides together
Do you by any chance have a video on adding string to a bracelet???
It's linked in the description: fixing bracelet mistakes
@@MashaKnots OK thanks
For the last bracelet that you were going over it looks like this person was doing the bracelet normally but then added a string on the opposite side they were working on which created the hole (does that make any sense) this person was doing forward knots and then had to add in a colour but added it to the wrong side and started doing backward knots (also i know this is a really old video but if someone is learning this might help them) :)
I’m trying to do a Batman alpha rn and it’s my second ever alpha the first was sunflowers but it wasn’t finished and accidentally got trashed I think and the sunflower one looked good but the Batman one looks trash and I haven’t even got to the Batman part yet. Do u have any tips on how to not make the start of a bracelet look trash I did the tear drop loop and the loop looks fine but it’s the start of the knots after it they were being difficult and look ugly
So I did they candy stripe bracelet and it for very twisted how to I avoid that
I want to learn hoy to make the ring(? thing at the beginning of the bracelet more neat, I mean, I have seen some that look kinda knitted too, and I don’t actually know how to achieve that ;(
Awesome tips! It’s really helpful
help my base string is too short im stuck in the middle
Start with Chinese staircase, then candy stripe, then chevron, then bordered chevron, then rag rug, then alpha
We need a drinking game for how often she references her cousin making a mistake. Then admittedly she was left on her own to flail around only for you to use it as content fodder later?
I know this is really delayed but the the person making the dog one separated it into two bracelets (as you can see at the edges of the hole) and reconnected it.
Another mistake could be, that I did in my case, was to put two threads to form a bigger one and that the bracelet was bigger. After making one with a single thread, I was able to know that I do them well, the only thing was that when I put two in it, I altered the design.
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help i’m trying to do a bracelet and i did one of the fancy loops in the beginning and i’m trying to stitch words into the bracelet. but with the loop there’s a big gap in my bracelet. either that or the bracelet is too skinny helpp
Can you please do a alpha bracelet? I mean with letters.
I have a tutorial up on how to make those
I wish I was taught how to do a shower on first I was taught how to do it forward not candy stripe and so when I learned that I had to do back or not as well it was a lot harder for me to learn them because I was already more used to doing Fortnite and I was good at 40 nights but I eventually figured it out but I’ve always been a little bit better at four or not because of learning on candy stripe so I highly recommend that anybody who wants to start making friendship bracelets starts with Chevron
I would like to know why are they called Alpha Bracelets? I thought was cuz of the pattern, but they are always different. So, I'm confused. 😕
Watch my alpha tutorial, I explain there
@@MashaKnots Sounds good! Thanks so much! 😊
so i know how to make chevrons and stuff and i have made a good chevron before, but there were some small holes in mine, do you know what to do for that? they aren’t that big of a deal but i don’t like them and i know that i can fix them somehow
It usually goes away the more you practice but it's due to knot tension
Masha Knots i fixed the problem! thank you so much! 😊
When I make these bracelets the front looks fine but then the back is like a bomb site! Can anyone help?
I did a bunch of candy stripe bracelets when I was beginning, so I got better at making them evenly tight so mine don’t turn out that curly and uneven
Someone help when ever I make a forward knot my string gets smaller and smaller any tips?
Can you get friendship brackets wet someone made one for me so I don’t wanna ruin it
what about the mistake of my making my bracelets zig zag even though i want them to be straight :((
When I tried to make a chevron (from ur tutorial) it was alot thicker then it was supposed to be, I'm a beginner how do I fix that?
use less string, the more strings you use the wider it will be
How can you avoid having wholes in your bracelets?
13:00 that part was the most heartbreaking thing i’ve ever heard
What do you do with the excess string in the back of alpha brackets?
Well, the question was not to me, but i'd like to help you and answer that I usually make a few knots in the back and cut the exess (oh i'm sorry i forgot how to spell it right)
PLEASE HELP
I just made my first bracelet it was the spiral one. And for some reason all my string just kept getting shorter and when I went to make the knot all the short string got tangled, and when I was finishing it off all the string was uneven. But also some of my ‘spirals’ didn’t go all the way around 😭
Huh?
When I tried to finish the bracelet all my strings were uneven and they would get all tangled if I continued with my bracelet. So I had to end it
Hope that helps
Theres a "mistake" I keep doing whrn I do my chevrons and its annoying, I dont know how to fix it. Whenevr I am doing a backward knots, so the right side of my chevron, some of my knots somehow pulls a bit on the previous string I used, amd it peaks through. I dont know why it does that I hate it. I tried fixing it by doing looser knits, but then theres holes and I can see through it and I dont like it more. Any tips, anyone??
i had this type of thing going on as well, and what I did was change my string to a thicker one. I bought them at walmart for 5 dollars, lots of colors! And when I made my first chevron with them I did not see the previous string or anything. The thickness is so nice as well, i love it! The name of the strings was "Coats & Clark® Jumbo Value 105-Pack Multicolor Embroidery Floss, 8.75 Yards"
What if the two knots on the chevron don’t come together? Is this a tightness issue
Yes
I dont know if anyone has commented on the mistake made by the.bracelet.club and I think its because the maker of the bracelet forgot to connect the bracelet both on the same and next row all the maker did was focus on the pig fom the cartoon Moana and not completing the whole row ( sorry my comment is quite long ).
Who knows how to stop your bracelet from curling into like...a little ringlet curl when your done
Who’s watching this in quarantine
Still waiting for that video mentioned about the bumpiness at 8:50 :'))
It’s still on the list! The list is just very long 😂
@@MashaKnots Good to know that it's something we can all look forward to! You'll definitely have my view :) (multiple times XD)
I just do forward backwards or backwards forwards on those ones
so if my string was going from the left to the right on an alpha I will to a backwards forwards on the last string and then start doing forwards knots on the string next to it, once I have done all the knots on that row but the one base string furthest to the left I will do a forwards backwards and then start doing forwards knots. (Hope that made sense)
BE CAREFUL because the first time I tried this I pulled an edge base string out so make sure you are very careful with those.
ik im like a year late but does anyone have the pattern at 15:40 ? im in love with it
I’m still a beginner but I catch on easy I would rather do ten different colors rather than the same color
For the hole guessing the string was skipped or accidentally doubled up on the string vs tieing a knot on one string it was two strings?
So I know you said you done a video on how to add string on alpha, but maybe you could do one on a normal pattern because for some reason I can't visualize it. I've tried practicing adding on a string to the normal pattern, but can't seem to get. Its cool if you don't, but I'm more of a visual learner.
@@michellegabel8109 it's literally the exact same thing. You tie the string on where you need it and put the loose end behind the bracelet and just continue using the new string
I think im early!
I have been trying for hours to make a bracelet and I'm so frustrated (I just started today)
Hopefully I can keep practicing and maybe get better