Friendship Bracelets hooray

This pattern has been created independently of any other similar patterns and I apologize to anyone who has previously come up with this same or a similar pattern.

Okay, so it's been a while.  A long while.  And I'm sorry.  But!  I have a thing!

Oh, right.  Difficulty.  It's not that hard once you get the order right, but...wouldn't try to make a six year old do it, so.... medium?

Also, you need to know how many inches your wrist is.

 

Pick four colors of string.

Cut the string 6 times the length of the final length (the size of your wrist).  If you feel uncomfortable with that small of a margin, you can add some more.

 

Once you have all you strings cut, fold them in half.

Oh.  OH.  What is this!?  Actually, it's just a knot, but the way I'm holding it looks wacky.  So I wrote on it!

 

So if that last one confused you, it's just one of these.

Separate your colors.  There will be two of each, because the strings are folded in half.

 

From left to right, the strings are ordered 3, 1, 2, 4.

Take string 1, the second from the left, and pull it to the left from beneath string 3.

 

On the left side, tie a regular friendship bracelet knot.

It will look like this.

 

Now pull string 2 to the right, beneath string 4.

On the right side, tie another knot.

It will look like this.  You will see part of string 4 above the knot.  This is part of the pattern, don't freak out and try to re-do it a bunch of times.

 

Now pull out string 3 to the left from beneath string 1.

Guess what!  You're tying another knot.

Pull out string 4 from beneath string 2.

 

Tie a knot.

The strings will be in the original order.

Repeat the knots, tying them from the side that they were pulled from.

Oh look, I'm almost done.

 

When you've reached the final length, lay the remaining thread over the knots.

Tie a normal knot.  Pull the knot up as you tighten it so that when it is finished, it rests just beneath the previous knot.

It will look like this.

Use the end knots to fold the bracelet in half.  Cut the loop in half and trim the remaining string so that they are even.

Ta-da!

 

Tie the ends in a double knot on your wrist.

Hooray, it's done!

This isn't a step, but this is all the string I had left over at the end.  The six times the final length thing wasn't nuts.

 

These pictures were taken by me, and are mine.  Use them if you want, I really can't stop you, but credit would be nice.