I’m definitely not ready for this level of complexity but this technique is super interesting! Once I learn segment knotting and get more comfortable with normal alpha’s etc I’ll try this technique some day
YES! I have been waiting for this! I've tried looking at other tutorials but I've never been able to follow them. Yours are always so clear and easy to follow for me!
This is fantastic! I have to say, everything friendship bracelet related I have learned thanks to your videos and lots of practice. Thank you so much for teaching us this beautiful art and pastime.
Before I saw this I thought you had to hide the string through every single knot. I always thought it was such a waste of thread. Glad I understand now 😅
WOW, this is such a cool technique!!!! I am soooo glad this tutorial came while I was already in the middle of making an alpha and I just tried it out and looks awesome. Thank you so much Marsha!!! 😍😎😎😎
Thank you for this very clear and helpful tutorial. I started making alphas and it always bothered me how they looked on the back. This technique is so cool. Thanks for sharing and explaining so well
The idea of threading inside the knot is really interesting, I wonder if you could use this to thread something else into the knot, like a physical object like a needle, or maybe even making a 3d bracelet that threads into the knots and goes perpendicular to the actual bracelet
Nice ! I'd integrated your straight alpha technique for non-background strings, but I didn't handle vertical switches that well, thank you for the precision. I find it funny that you emphasise the esthetics of a clean back when I've always thought it was a must for something that's rubbing on your skin for so long... but maybe I'm a bit extra about not taking off friendship bracelets until they fall off ^^'
Debo mencionar que no soy de habló inglés, pero realmente pude comprender tu técnica, yo estaba un poco perdida, porque encontré esa forma de anudar en varios intentos pero no podía ejecutarlo correctamente aún, gracias a ti, ya que sé como hacerlo correctamente. ♡
I reinvented this technique because I wanted a good looking back alpha pattern. Instead of inserting from the middle and cutting the thread that still in the middle, I just run the thread from start to end and it looks cleaner.
This tutorial is great and I was gonna try it on my newest project but it eventually has 6 switches in one row 😅. I don’t mind the complexity, I’m more concerned about the size of the knots with that many colors XD
This....this is very interesting and intricate. I like how you took your time and explained this, thank you. Am I ready for this level of bracelet. Absolutely not! Am I gonna try it regardless? Pfft, YES.
How do you know which direction is which? I tried with a different pattern and the knots would get weird as if I went in the wrong direction. Do you care to make another video more detailed and longer to explain more about the "clean back alpha" ? Please and thank you it would be REALLY helpful!
How would you figure this out for your pattern of choice? How do I figure this out on all other patterns? Can you make a video on: How to do clean Alpha back on any pattern? Or something a long the lines of that? @MashaKnots
great tutorial, thank you! but i guess it can be really really tricky if you often have to chance colors... where can I find the pattern with the lines for the clear back?
If you have an alpha pattern with just two colors would you hide each color your not using within every knot in the pattern? That way all the knots in the entire bracelet would be the same size. I’m trying to figure out how to do a checkerboard alpha. Like the Vans brand checkerboard…
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