Make beautiful bracelets for you and your friends.

How to make your Friendship Bracelets

What’s in the box?• 4 Coloured Yarns• Assorted Beads• Silver Coloured Heart

Shaped Charms• Safety Pin• Bracelet Clasps• Bracelet Rings• Needle

In this kit there are enough threads and beads for you to make the four bracelets shown on the packaging and there should be plenty of threads left over for you to make some additional ones too. If you have any beads of your own you could add these and make your own designs for you or your friends. Bracelets one, two and three are based around a simple plaiting technique and bracelet four is even simpler, just by tying one simple knot. Have fun!

What else do you need?• A pair of safety scissors

• Bracelet Rings

How to make your Friendship BraceletsHow to make your Friendship Bracelets

Carefully slip the safety pin through the fastener and pin it onto a cushion to help hold the threads fi rm while you work. Plait together pairs of the same coloured thread by folding the right hand pair over the middle pair, then the left hand pair over the middle pair and so on.

Repeat this process until you have plaited about 2cms in length. Take a pink round bead and thread it onto the middle two threads, then push the bead right up to the knot and continue plaiting.

Continue to plait another 2cms and then thread on a green coloured bead, then do another 2cms and thread on a lilac bead. Repeat this process until you have threaded 2 beads of each colour, or reached a plaited length of about 18cms (try it around you wrist to make sure it fi ts before fi nishing). Your bracelet should now be long enough to tie all the threads onto the separate bracelet ring really tightly and knot them twice. Using a pair of safety scissors, carefully trim the excess threads.

1. Bracelet One:To start, take the pink, purple and green threads and use a pair of safety scissors to carefully cuta length of each about 80cms long. Thread them all through the small hoop of the bracelet fastener, pulling them half-way through, until all three threads on either side measure 40cms each.

Follow the same instructions as Bracelet One, but this time use purple, yellow and green threads instead. Thread alternate lilac beads and silver coloured heart charms.

3. Bracelet Three:

Follow the same instructions as Bracelet one, but use only the purple thread. This time, thread three beads (pink bead, purple crystal bead, pink bead) after you have plaited about 3cms or purple yarn. The three beads should be threaded onto the two pieces of thread you are going to plait next and pushed up into the knot. With the remaining four strands, hold two of them taught and wrap the other two round them several times until you reach the bottom of the three beads and then continue plaiting them all again until you have plaited another 3cms. When you have attached three sets of beads onto the bracelet, continue for about 3 more cms and then fi nish off as in bracelet one.

2. Bracelet Two:

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1. Occasionally it can be tricky working with embroidery threads as they can easily separate into lots of strands. If this happens when you are trying to thread them through a bead, wet the ends of the threads and trim with a pair of safety scissors, so they are all exactly the same length.

2. When tying the fi nal knot on the bracelet ring, make sure it’s really tight, so it can’t work its way loose later on.

3. If you fi nd it too diffi cult to push any of the threads through a bead by hand, twist the threads to a point and thread them through the needle, then push the needle through the bead.

TIPS!

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Use just the pink thread and cut two lengths of each about 60cm long and thread them through the small hoop of the bracelet fastener. Tie a knot around the threads and attach the safety pin as you have done before on the other three bracelets. Thread a turquoise bead followed by a pink bead then another turquoise bead onto the threads and tie another knot. Repeat this process until your bracelet is long enough to fi t comfortably around your wrist and then attach the silver ring. Trim any excess threads.

4. Bracelet Four: