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Hi this Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you
how to make this knotting cord macrame bracelet
and this one here I
made with the dark neon variety
and I'm gonna make another one now with the bright neon collection
and its the smaller size of the
knotting cord we carry in the neons. It's a
.80 millimeter wide cord and it comes with
all four colors on the card just like this. So it's really handy
gives you a really nice variety of colors
I'm getting use a macrame board
I do find it helpful. You can also tape your work to your work
table or use a clip board or safety pin it onto
your pant leg.There's a lot of different tricks and ways to do it but
I'm going to use the macrame board
I'm going to use two pairs of chain nose pliers
a pair scissors, so tape,
E6000 glue. I'm going to use a post-it note to
put the glue on. Then you're going to need a couple of jump rings,
a magnetic clasp and some ribbon
ends, ribbon crimps and these are 3/8
So to start
cut two 3ft pieces of
each color of your cord
I'm actually just gonna measure them right
on the macrame cord, it has a ruler
right on there. It's handy
and it does knot so be careful
it's knotting cord and its good at what it does
I have one piece of pink
I'll use that one measure to my other pieces. Okay and these don't have to be exact on
the length
you're going to have a little bit extra depending of course on how long you make
your bracelet
just get them kind of
all close to the same length. Gather all of your chords
together at one end. And the way that we place these when we tie it in a knot is
going to make a difference
where the colors sit in the pattern
we want to make it symmetrical
a few inches down from the top and I'm going to
get the cords placed
in a symmetrical pattern so that there's 2 of 1 color in the center and then
2 of the next color flanking all the way
out so that is symmetrical
on both sides
and it's not going to stay necessarily exactly in that order
as you tie the knot but as long as its close it'll be alright
I'm going to just tie an overhand knot a few inches down from the top
I'm going to leave a few inches here
leave at least a couple inches after the knot because that's what's going to
happen to
the notch on the macrame board
and if you want to pull it down to where the
edge of the knot rest right above this line here then you can measure
right on the board using this as your first inch and so on
so again don't cut this so short in the back so you can't
get it down where you want it to be
now I'm going to try to
get my cords back into the order that I
had them in. Like I said if it's not exact
its okay we're gonna end up cutting that knot off at the end
it just kinda needs to be close to where they are
now we're gonna do all of the knotting for this bracelet using
square knots. We do have a video on how to make macrame from a square knots but I
will go over it
here also briefly
you gonna take the left half of your cords
and make sure that they're in the color that you want. You're going to
use
the outer two cords to tie a
square knot around the inner two cords. A square knot is always going to have
two knots to make up the square knot and we're going to start
by taking a left cord and going under the center two cords
and then taking the right cord taking it
underneath the edge of your
first cord and go over the center two cords
and through the loop on the left
pull that snug and near the top but don't yank it up too tight. We want
to be able to have another knot sit right next to it. So with that one we
took the left cord under to begin and now
to make our knot sit nice and square and straight
we're going to take the left cord over this time. We're going to
alternate, every square knot alternates. We're gonna take our
right cord
over the tail of the first cord, under the center cords
and through the loop on the left and
make sure that your center cords don't get twisted. Pull that snug
that's our first square knot. Like I said it's okay if it sit a little bit down
from the overhand knot. I'm just going to take
the left cords and bring it over to the side. You can
stick them in a notch on the macrame board if you want or you can just let them
hang out of the way. Now make sure that your cords
stay in the right order on the side so that your colors
are symmetrical. On this side
because we want it to reflect from one to the side to the other
so that it looks nice and even we're going to do our knots in the opposite orders. Instead
of starting
under, we're going to actually start with the over
take left cord over the center cords
the right cord over the tail
under the center cords and though the loop
you wanna pull that up
to sit right next to the knot above
and then we're going to do under the center cords
under the tail, over the center cords
through the loop
pull that snug and now you should have
your two knot sitting side by side
and your center color should be
jogging out to both sides and back in. Now we're going to connect
those two by taking just the center
four cords, take the last two to either side
now those two centers are going to be your centers for the next knot
and then you're going to
make this knot, you're going to start with going over the center cords
over the tail, under
and through, pull that snug
up to the join right there
then take the left cord and go
under the center, under the tail
over and through
and pull that snug. You're gonna follow this exact
same process to continue
you can see you'll be making your
two knots, one knot, two knots, one knot and the outside cords
follow along on this nice little loopy
edging. I'll show you that again. Start with the left side
your left
knots are always going to start by going
under and complete
that knot. You don't wanna pull your left cord
super tight here. You wanna go ahead and leave enough cord to give yourself a
nice little looped
edge. Just pull it snug. Then you're going to
finish your square knot by taking your left cord over
and finishing the knot. Then you'll do the right knot
and the right knots are always going to start by taking
your left cord and going
over the center cords
and try to make sure that you have them
even on both sides so that the two knots
sit right next to each other and finish the square knot
by taking the left cord under the center cord
if you don't alternate, if you just go
over every time or under every time, what you're going to get is
a macrame knot that twists as it goes
it's a spiral effect. So it can be very pretty but that's not what we doing
to achieve
this look
and then when you're doing the center knot you're always going to start
by taking your left cord over
and finish the square knot by taking the left cord under the center cord
just like
you can adjust to get the top of your first knot right on that line
you're gonna continue your knotting until
your knots and don't include the overhand knot but your actual macrame
work
measures about 1 1/8 of an inch less than what you want because
your
clasp and everything is going to add about that much, a little over an inch
for me I want to do this until I have
about six inches or so of knotting so I can
get the right fit. You wanna go ahead and measure your wrist and
then depending on how loose or tight you want you can make it
anywhere from half an inch to an inch or so more than your wrist measurement
here I have
my knotted work and its
just under six inches because I want to go ahead and have my finished piece be
about seven so
with the 1 1/8 that it will add this is going to be just about right
so once you have you're knotting the length that you
want go ahead pull it off of your board. We're going to
use some cellophane tape
going to
don't pull really hard but just pull
the cords at the end into a nice straight line
lay the tape down
right next to
the edge of the knotting. When you flip it over
and then go ahead and fold the tape in and when you fold it in
you wanna condense the cord a little bit, they're going to fit
underneath this ribbon crimp
and so you want to fit, so you wanna to check it
if it's not quite tight enough you can pull it up again
and just fold it
tight so it'll fit. If you have tape hanging over the edge you are going to want to trim that
off because
we're going to actually leave the tape underneath the crimp inside
you don't want to have tape hanging out
just hold the crimp up and make sure it's gonna fit
I'm going to trim
the tape. You wanna make sure your tape is right up against the knots
because you only have the space
of the depth of the crimp here to hold your work in
trim that off
check to make sure that's going to fit, that's gonna be fine
We're going to add some glue to reinforce that and make it
really strong. Put a little bit of glue onto a piece of scrap paper
take the end and dip it straight into the glue
I don't want a huge amount. I just want to get
a little bit of a coating on both sides
and place that
into the ribbon crimp. If you have a lot of access glue you're gonna wipe
that away
you shouldn't put on so much that you have a lot. Now we're going to crimp to ribbon crimp
using a pair of pliers. Make sure it's in the right spot
and push down. I usually like to go from the top
and then from each side. That's
really secured once that glue dries it's not going to go anywhere
now we're gonna undo the knot
that we did at the very beginning. If you're having a hard time getting it out, this cord
doesn't like to come unknotted you can start with taking a couple of the cords
out individually and that will loosen it up
now that we have are going to do exactly what we did on the
other side. Take some tape
lay your cords flat
line the tape up against the edge of the knotting
flip it over, condense it
in. I'm going to the excess off
make sure it's still going to be sticky
make sure you don't have the edge of the tape hanging off side
check that
and it's good
a little bit glue
and I'm just checking to make sure that I put the teeth on the same side
because I'll let that be the back, the teeth in the crimp
and crimp
because the crimp is going to hold this
I'm keeping on working without letting the glue dry all the way
if you're worried about it you can let it set up first otherwise you can
trust to the crimps to hold it in place until the glue dries
it's up to you, okay we're going to take
a magnetic clasp and a couple of jump rings
open a jump ring
grasping to either side of the opening and twist it apart
and place the magnetic clasp on there
it's going to be fidgety, go ahead and let it sit against the edge of the pliers
and then
hang one of your ribbon crimps and
twist the jump ring close
use the other one to attach the other side
twist that closed
Then you'll just wanna let your glue dry thoroughly before you wear the
bracelet for at least about an hour and you're all done.
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