A detailed tutorial on how to tie an alpha style friendship bracelet with a shark on it! YOU WILL NEED: - Coloured String - Scissors - Safety Pin/ Tape/ Clipboard PATTERN: Braceletbook.com Pattern # 25299 www.braceletbo...
Just to let you know...my little cousin loved his shark bracelet. He asked me if I could make him more and some for his best friend. He's had a really hard year health wise and we were crying seeing him so happy and smiling. He was so excited. It's funny how something so seemingly insignificant can provide a very precious happy moment for such a young little boy who is going through the battle he has waged for his life. Thank you from the most grateful family. Just wanted you to know that this really helped us bring a smile and spark to a little boy who desperately needs it. Thank you for this!!
Oh my gosh! 😭 this brought literal tears to my eyes! ❤️ I’m so glad it brought a smile to his face. Thank you for sharing and I’m sending lots and lots of love to you, your family and the young shark boy! 😄
just started watching this video and for the next hour i’m going to be making my bracelet while you show the others how to make yours :) thank you for uploading 💘
First - I love when you are zoomed in so we can see the knots being made up close (I unfortunately have bad eyesight). I find this very helpful. Second, would love to see a Spider-Man pattern step by step like you did here for the shark bracelet. Your tutorial was so easy to follow and I haven’t learned how to read the alpha patterns yet. Just starting out. So thank you for your video :)
I love your voice! You sound like such a kind lighthearted person! But anyways, I asked my mom to get me some thread so I’ll definitely be subscribing and using this tutorial!
Thank you so much! This is an absolutely adorable pattern and you explain it so well. I have never been great at alpha bracelets, only normal patterns. This not only helped me with this specific pattern but also the adding of colors, as that is what always confused and bothered me. (and Im now your thousandth subscriber! ^^)
Thank you! My little cousin loves sharks! I have to get the stuff, but am going to make this for him this week and surprise him with it this weekend! Thank you!!
This tutorial is my favorite :) And answering to your question: My favorite marine animals are sharks and fish :) "Fish are friends. Not Food" ;) Annnnnnnd what inspired me to do this alpha bracelet is JAWS :) I've started watching Jaws 2. :)
Thank you sooooo much, I am new to alphas and am working on reading the actual graph pattern things. This was so helpful and I learned a lot. Maybe you could do an alpha bracelet with orcas in it for a video tutorial. Thanks again!!!
This video is amazing because I feel like other video are a little to fast for me because my brain can’t process it like that but this video is amazing you take it really slow so I can understand!
I appreciate this video so much ! Can’t wait to do this bracelet. Those sharks are just so cute🥺 thank you for filming such an amazing and helpful video!💕 If I could I would give it 10 Thumbs up
Hello! I've never made an alpha EVER I just started making bracelets! I'm trying to make some bracelets for my uncle but… don't know what to do! But I'll try to do this! I'm only 10! And it is kinda hard to have pressure on making bracelets in a period of time! I also have to make one for my other uncle but… I'm soooo stressed about it that I haven't even started! But it will really help if somebody reads my comment, reply to me with encouraging messeges! It will encourage me to start! Btw I subscribed!!!❤️😂
Hey I finished one shark but for my next one everything is flipped so I have to the opposite of your pattern can you give any advice to help with that? Btw I love your tutorials
Ciara Vellozzi oh yay, I’m glad you enjoy the tutorials! 😊💜 As far as flipping your next shark... I personally find it easier to read off of my first pass of a pattern, especially when flipping it. I find it easier to keep my place on but also to see where you are when you’re looking at them side by side. Otherwise, my main advice is read the pattern twice and knot it once 😂 sometimes it’s easy to get the lines mixed up when you’re reading it backwards and nobody likes undoing all those knots! Haha!
Inês Correia you can add more and more of your pink in by treating it like another colour change, so cut it however long you’re comfortable knotting with! 😊
i have one question, when you add in a new string, do you have to tape it on the left side, or can you do it on the right side? i was a bit confused when you were making a forward knot when you the row was a backward knot. also it WAS when you added the black string.
Maya Papaya and Lola Co-cola you can secure your string down to whichever side is more comfortable for you! Because it was just one knot I just secured down and knotted whichever way the string wanted to cooperate most, in hind-sight it may have been easier for others to follow if I hadn’t have done that.
Acadia Keizer I use a program called Filmora to edit my videos. It’s pretty basic but I’m not a super editor so it’s easy and works for me. I use photoshop for my thumbnails as I use PS for other things and already have it. You could totally use a free photo editing program like GIMP to do everything I do for my thumbnails though.
Maybe you can help me! I am following your tutorial and your bracelet looks wider than mine and flatter than mine. I done exactly as you did taping everything down. I have 10 gray base strings, and am using yellow as my knotting color. Am i possibly just pulling my string too tight? Or done it come done to the type of string you use? I am currently using friendship string kit from hobby lobby that has a twisted pattern, and just basic embroidery floss from walmart.
Hmmm.... it could be both of those things honestly. Have you tried tying a little looser and seeing what happens?If you are tying quite tight you may be pinching some of your knots causing your image to ‘pop out’ or it could cause the actual bracelet to curve a bit. Also, I could be wrong but it sounds like you’re using craft string AND embroidery floss? If this is the case this could be making the difference in both the width and the flatness of your bracelet as well. One is likely slightly bulkier than the other which seems like a small thing but can be huge over the course of a few rows.
I already have an orca pattern set aside I’ve been waiting to use so it could definitely be done! Orcas are my favourite so that can definitely be put into action!
My base strings were an arms length which was longer than they needed to be but I was knotting with them so I wanted to be be safe. The white I think I cut the same. Black you really don’t need much as you’re only making one knot per shark with it. The pink I used nearly a whole skein if I remember correctly.
Squid 29 it sure is! You just anchor down your string (tape it to the table) and push the old string out and carry on with the new one! I would suggest if you’re able to, to try and do it at least one or two knots before an edge so the ridges on the side don’t get interrupted 😉
hi i've been trying alpha bracelets and so far i've made a couple but on my most recent bracelet, half way through the bracelet the pattern/texture changed and I genuinely have no idea how or why it just happened on a random line and i didn't even start adding new strings in. I realized and tried to fix it but it didn't work and i decided to try to finish it and see what i did wrong but it never changed to the original texture. If this helps: the back looks the same as the front of the top of my bracelet. I'm using the same type of string for all of my strings and the bottom texture is just really lumpy. The top just looks so much better than the bottom and my other bracelets looked like my bottom texture and i want to figure out what i'm doing wrong for future bracelets. Sorry if that didn't make sense I don't know how to explain my problem
Well, if the back of your bracelet looks the same as the front of the top of your bracelet AND the texture has changed... it sounds to me as if you may be knotting ‘upside down’. Without pictures I can only guess, but it sounds like something I used to do when I started. I made all my knots as forward knots which would cause anything that’s supposed to be a backwards knot to be upside down, making half of my bracelet a different look and texture. This sounds like you may be switching part way through, perhaps mixing the knot types and effectively knotting ‘upside down’. If that is the case it becomes a preference thing, some people just knot like that and don’t consider it upside down at all!
@@MegMakesCrafts do you have anywhere i can send you pictures because i do switch my types of knots and i want to know how to fix whatever i'm doing wrong.
This particular time around I did straight cut strings. You could, of course, fold your strings if you wanted a loop to start! If you are just starting alpha patterns though, I would recommend trying to keep your strings as flat as possible off the hop to help keep your lines straight!
rawan ror I mean you could but it would take a long time. Generally, mats are woven on a loom. Alternately, latch-hook also creates a shaggy carpet-like piece.
I used to have lots of trouble with tape too! I’ve found I need to use a name brand and put one piece sticky side up and then lay my strings down on it and tape over them all otherwise the string just all pull out. I use tape all the time now! 🙂
Obrigado pelo seu feedback! Eu não falo seu idioma, então desculpe-me, se esta tradução não for ótima, estou usando o google. Vou tentar mostrar mais os gráficos em vídeos futuros!
