Supplies
Tools
Materials
- Several skeins of embroidery floss or other cotton thread, cut into 80-cm (32-inch) sections
- 1.2 m (4 ft) embroidery floss or other cotton thread of a different color (this thread will design the fish pattern; in the example, green)
Directions
Begin the fish bracelet
For a bracelet measuring about 15 cm (6 inches):
- Knot several threads together (here, 8 threads in 3 different colors).
- With each thread, make inverse chevron knots, starting with the center threads.
- Make a diamond with threads 1 and 8.
- At the end of the diamond, start a chevron with threads 5 and 4.
NB: Don't make knots on thread 1.
- Make chevrons with threads 6 and 3 as you would for the cross pattern.
- Make 2 backward knots with thread 8 on thread 6 and 2 forward knots with thread 1 on thread 4.
- Make the right branch of the cross with thread 1.
Finish the first fish of the fish bracelet
- Make the left branch of the cross with thread 8.
- You've made the fish. Continue, following the chevron pattern.
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