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Friendship Bracelets: All Grown Up Hemp, Floss, and Other Boho Chic Designs to Make
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Add instant eco-chic street fashion to any outfit with friendship bracelets! Get that trendy bohemian look with bountiful, bright colors on your arms and wrists. Inside you’ll find dozens of stylish designs and easy techniques for making beautiful bracelets with embroidery floss and hemp.
Friendship Bracelets offers fresh ideas for expressing yourself with the texture and beauty of intricate knotwork. You’ll find cool patterns here for making chevrons, stripes, waves, diamonds, and more, with step-by-step instructions for each knot pattern. Gorgeous color photographs illustrate variations in every style, from classic and natural to playful and eclectic.
Stack your bracelets for a boho arm party, and embellish them with beads and buttons. Learn how to make inexpensive hemp jewelry in fun colors, inspired by laidback hippie vibes. Transform ordinary friendship bracelets from middle school memories to chic contemporary pieces you’ll be proud to wear. Whether you’re going bohemian, mod, or all-out fashionista, Friendship Bracelets will help you to create exactly the look you want.
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Suzanne McNeill
Suzanne McNeill is the author of 230 craft & hobby books and 15 Zentangle books, Suzanne McNeill has been called "the Trendsetter" for arts and crafts. Dedicated to hands-on creativity, she constantly tests, experiments, and invents something new and exciting. Suzanne is the woman behind Design Originals, a publishing company dedicated to all things fun and creative. Winner of the Craft and Hobby Association's Industry Achievement Award, she is a designer, artist, columnist, TV personality, publisher, art instructor, author, and lover of everything hands-on.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nonfiction/craft. you have to look to the Great Internet to figure out how you want to make your closures (I like the button-and-loop not included in here), but the instructions are otherwise clear, well illustrated, and good. I can definitely see teens, tweens, and adults getting into this.
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Friendship Bracelets - Suzanne McNeill
FRIENDSHIP DESIGNS
Bracelets knotted from embroidery floss likely bring to mind childhood memories of school and recess. By incorporating updated colors and creative modifications to match your taste, however, you can transform these designs from middle-school memories to current pieces you are proud to display. Whether you’re going for a boho chic, mod, or all-out fashionista look, these designs will allow you to create exactly what you want. To get the hang of things, start with the basic instructions for each pattern to learn how to organize your strands and the order in which to knot them to create your design. Then, get inspired by the hundreds of ways in which you can customize your projects to make them your very own. From color to closures to beads, there are endless ways to make these bracelets as unique as
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