How to Make Friendship Bracelets

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen from The Lanyard Ladies, and in order to make a friendship bracelet, the first knot you need to know how to do is the forward knot. So the first thing we need to do is to take our string, we put a knot in the to of the string, and then …

Transcript Heidi Cohen: Hi, I’m Heidi. Colleen Demas: And I’m Colleen. And we are the Lanyard Ladies. We do friendship bracelet and lanyard birthday parties, and all special events. Heidi: We’ve taken an old craft, and we’ve re-invented it. We teach children how to make friendship bracelets and lanyard bracelets. We teach all different patterns …

Transcript I’m going to show you how to read the pattern for this diamond friendship bracelet. It uses 12 strings, folded over at the top, and separated out according to the color pattern that they show you on the actual pattern. So it’s a white, it’s a pink, it’s a green and a red, and …

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen form the Lanyard Ladies, and I’m going to share with you today the top six supplies that you need to make a friendship bracelet. The first would be the embroidery floss. This is the main ingredient. First you have to open up the skein, and you have to find the end. …

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen from the Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to show you how to make a lanyard person. The lanyard person is made in steps. The first step is going to be to make the arms. The arms, you will need two sets, four pieces of lanyard about 15 inches long, and …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heidi from the Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to show you how to make a triple single rainbow loom bracelet. And this is what it looks like when it’s done. So let’s get started. You’re going to need your rubber bands and your hook and your rainbow loom. You’re going to …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heidi from The Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to show you how to make a single rainbow loom bracelet. What you’ll need is your rainbow loom, and different variety of colors of rubber bands, and you’ll need your hook. You start off, make sure that the red arrow is facing away …

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen from The Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to show you how to do the zipper stitch with lanyard. You will need three pieces of lanyard, and we could tie a knot at the top. The color that you’re zipping with, you probably should cut a little bit longer because you …

Transcript Hi. I’m Colleen from the Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to show you how to make a spiral stitch with lanyard. I find this to be one of the most difficult stitches. So you’re going to need two pieces of lanyard, probably 20 inches in length. You’re going to take one of the …

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen from The Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to show you how to do the multibox pattern. You’ll need four pieces of lanyard, about 40 inches, and you’re going to fold them in half and find the centers. One of the strings you want to turn sideways and place it underneath …

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen from The Lanyard Ladies and today I’m going to show you how to do the barrel stitch. I’ve done a few stitches already so it’s easier for me to show you how to do it. So we’re going to be looping with the blue and you’re going to take your blue. …

Transcript Hi. I’m Colleen from The Lanyard Ladies and I’m going to show you today how to make a box pattern with lanyard. I’ve already done some so it’s easier for me to teach you how to do it, so I can hold on to something. So you’re going to start with your yellow or …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heidi from The Lanyard Ladies, and today I’ll be showing you how to make a king cobra out of lanyard. So in order to make your king cobra, you would have to start off by making your cobra stitch. You need to make it approximately two or three inches down, so you …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heide from The Lanyard Ladies. Today I’m going to show you how to make a twisted cobra lanyard. You’re going to need two pieces of plastic lacing of your lanyard, and about 60 inches in length. Take your lanyard, and you’re going to fold it in half evenly at the ends. Take …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heidi from The Lanyard Ladies, and today I’ll be showing you how to make a cobra stitch out of Lanyard. You’re going to need two pieces of lanyard, approximately 60 inches in length. You’re going to take your lanyard, and you’re going to fold it over. You’re going to take a key …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heidi from The Lanyard Ladies and today I’ll be showing you how to make the butterfly stitch out of lanyard. You’re going to need two pieces of lanyard, two different colors that are about 30 inches in length. You’re going to take the two pieces and you’re going to start off by …

Transcript Hi. I’m Heidi from the Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to show you how to make a tunnel out of lanyard. You’re going to need three colors and one clear. The clear is going to go on the outside. The clear needs to be 60 inches long, and your colored lanyard needs to …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heide form The Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to show you how to make Chinese Staircase out of lanyard. So the materials that you’ll need today, you can use a clipboard to help you, if it will make things easier, or you can hold it in your hand to make it. …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heidi from the Lanyard Ladies and I’ll be showing you how to add beads to a friendship bracelet. This is what your bracelet will look like when you’re done. We’re doing to need some beads, some rattail cord, and some embroidery floss. Two different colors of embroidery floss. We’re going to need …

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen from the Ladies and I’m going to teach you how to make a Cobra friendship bracelet. First thing we need is a 30 inch piece of rat tail cord folded in half. Rat tail cord can be purchased at any local craft store. Then we’ll need two pieces of embroidery floss. …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heidi from The Lanyard Ladies and today I’m going to be showing you how to make a double snake friendship bracelet. A double snake friendship bracelet is similar to a regular snake we’re just going to double it in size, which makes it look even cooler. The materials you’re going to need …

Transcript Hi, I’m Heidi from The Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to be teaching you how to make a snake bracelet. First you’ll need 20 inches of rattail cord, this you can get at any craft store. It’s a little thicker than french or bracelet embroidery string that you’d be typically to make your …

Transcript Hi. I’m Colleen from the Lanyard Ladies, and now we’re going to learn how to make a V friendship bracelet. I have five colors, and I have 30 inches here, and you need to find the center of the 30 inches. At the center, we make a knot. But after we have a knot …

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen from the Ladies and now we’re going to learn how to make a Candy Stripe Friendship Bracelet. I’m making a Candy Stripe Bracelet with five strings. You probably want to cut your strings about 20 inches in length. That should accommodate any size wrist. You take your strings and you put …

Transcript Hi. I’m Heidi from the Lanyard Ladies, and today I’ll be showing you how to make a fancy Chinese staircase friendship bracelet. This is what it’s going to look like when it’s done. You’re going to pick five colors, five of your favorite colors. It’s going to be about 15 inches long. And you …

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen from The Lanyard Ladies and now I’m going to show you how to make a Chinese staircase bracelet. I’m using five strings. The more strings you use, the thicker the bracelet will be when it’s finished. So I have five strings about 20 inches long. I’m going to put a knot …

Transcript Hi, I’m Colleen from The Lanyard Ladies and now I’m going to teach you how to make a braid with the friendship embroidery floss. I use three different colors and I use three strings of each color, and I’m going to knot them at the top. Then I will take my cardboard. I put …

Transcript Hi. I’m Colleen from The Lanyard Ladies, and I’m going to show you today how to make a backward knot. You’re going to need two pieces of string. We’ll first put a basic knot in the top of the two strings. Pull it tight. Then we’re going to take our scissors, and we’ll cut …

Transcript Hi. I’m Heidi from The Lanyard Ladies, and today I’m going to show you how to make a fishtail rainbow loom bracelet. This is what it’s going to look like when we’re done. You’re going to need to pick two colors we’re going to start with. I’m going to use red and black. You …