Monday, February 17, 2014

This next craft is kind of confusing, so I hope I can do a good enough job of explaining it for people to understand. For this one, you're going to need string(preferably embroidery thread), scissors, and a safety pin. 


First things first, you need to select three threads that you think look good together. For this I'm gonna be using pink, mint green, and white. 

Now you want to take the strings, line the tips of them up evenly, and cut them at about 2 ft.

Next, you want to grab the ends of the strings and bring them up to meet with the other ends

After doing this it should leave you with a loop that you want to now grab, making sure that the strings all stay at an even length. 

You then want to take the loop as it is in the picture about, and tie a knot in it so that it looks like the below picture, and with the strings all individually separable coming from the knot. 

You then want to take the safety pin and put it through the knot. I like to usually pin it to my knee, but you can also use pillows and other surfaces as well.

Now this is where I'll probably do a horrible job of explaining and a pretty thorough job of confusing you. Anyways, next you want to separate the strings so that they align with their same color string on the opposite side. For this one I decided to put the greens on the outsides, the white in the middles, and the pinks on the inside. 

Now you want to take the left outside string (in this case the green on the left) and make it into the shape on a four over the left middle string ( the left side white).

You then want to pull the end of the green behind the white and up through the four you created. Creating a tiny, barely visible knot over the white, and then repeat. You then want to do that twice on the left side white and pink. By this point the green should have replaced the pink as this inside string.

Now you want to take the right outside string (the right green) and do the same thing except this time making a backwards four.

 Until the two greens are now the middle strings and the two whites are now the outside strings.

You then want to take the left side green, creating a normal four over the right side green, and make two small knots using those strings.

Then all you have to do is repeat the process with the new outside strings until your bracelet is the length you need it to be.This is one I'm working on right now with four colors. You can use as many as you want. The more you have the thicker the bracelet. Oh, and this is called the chevron pattern by the way. Hope that was somewhat understandable(:














For this you're going to want to start off with four things: Glue, 2 paint brushes(you can use a normal one, but the sponge kind tend to work better), a notebook (again, you can use whatever kind you want, but the composition ones usually look better), mod podge aka the greatest thing ever made. and a variety of magazines, stickers, scrap booking paper, etc.

First, you're going to decide if you want to put paper as a background for your new notebook, or if you're just going to go with the collage method. After that you want to cut out anything within the magazines that you really like. Then you're going to place them on your notebook and move them around until you find a design that you really like. Next, you're going to place glue on the back of your cutouts using one of the paintbrushes and place them on your notebook. Make sure you smooth them out nicely, but not with too much force because they will rip. Then as soon as you're done gluing them on you want to take your other paintbrush and go over the cutouts with the mod podge. Try not to use an excessive amount, but don't worry when it's white at first, it will dry clear. Then you just allow your notebook to dry and repeat with the mod podge if you feel like you need to.