I’m still hungover from last month’s Craft Camp. It was a great weekend of crafts with amazing campers, not at all tainted by the storm that came upon Day 2 of the camp. Even if we were holed up indoors, we went on with the program. I closed the camp with a handwoven twig necklace workshop. It was a new workshop I’ve never taught before!
Last month, I prepared 50 friendship bracelet craft kits for an activity in Japan. I wanted to keep things easy, so I decided to doodle a little how-to zine on how to make the Chinese Staircase friendship bracelet pattern. It’s definitely one of the easiest to make!
I’m now coming from a self-imposed friendship bracelet making break. For the last couple months, I was eating, breathing, and dreaming bracelets and patterns. Going through withdrawals, I wanted to make a new one. One that was quite simple, requiring no patterns. So, this is what I came up with.
I’ve been asked many times where I get my bracelet patterns from. Most of my patterns I get from (and submit to) braceletbook.com. Soon enough, these patterns just might be found compiled in a book available in your local bookstores. *winks*
When I first saw THIS friendship bracelet watch on Urban Outfitters’ site, I knew I had to have it. By that, it meant either having to buy it or make it. The tweet professing my love for this idea came months ago. I only got around to making it now.
This weekend, I suddenly remembered how I had a watch stashed away with the rest of my unused accessories. I don’t remember which cousin or visitor left this in my New York apartment. I never found out, and never used the watch myself. So, here’s how I made my version of this friendship bracelet watch.
