How Do You Make Easy Knot Friendship Bracelet out of Carrick Bend and Alpine Bend

Summary: By learning this easy knot friendship bracelet, you will grasp two kinds of old knotting ways: Carrick Bend and Alpine Bend. Both knots can be used in your knot friendship bracelet.

How Do You Make Easy Knot Friendship Bracelet out of Carrick Bend and Alpine Bend

Wanna buy some friendship bracelets? No! Why not try making a significant one by yourself? Now an easy knot friendship bracelet tutorial is displayed here for you, which was used two old kotting ways: Carrick Bend and Alpine Bend. Hope you will like it!

Materials needed for making carrick bend friendship bracelet:

1mm Nylon Thread (red & yellow)
8mm Acrylic Bead
Scissors

Materials needed for making carrick bend friendship bracelet

How to make carrick bend knot friendship bracelet?

Step1: Make the decorative Carrick Bend

Measure the size of your wrist size and then snip two strands of yellow nylon wire about 20cm longer than that (usually each should be kept 35cm long); next, you can start to make the Carrick Bend for your friendship bracelet:

1st, fold the thread ① and lay its below tip across the another one; then put the thread ② under the folded location of thread ①;
2nd, hold the above half tip of thread ② to weave through the existed thread sections over and under according the diagram shows;
3rd, adjust the four thread tips and slightly tighten the thread. 

Make the decorative Carrick Bend

Step2: Complete the Carrick Bend for easy knot friendship bracelet

1st, as shown in the diagram 1 & 2, take another two 35cm long red thread strands and weaving in the corresponding methods along the outer edge of the yellow ones;
2nd, in the next, repeat the same processes along the inner of yellow ones with two 90cm long red threads.
3rd, ensure the red threads staying beside the yellow ones and then pull tightly all the threads.

Complete the Carrick Bend for easy knot friendship bracelet

Step3: Make the Alpine Bend for rest knot friendship bracelet portion

According to the diagrams shows, the rest portion of bracelet is consisting of mass Alpine Bends. 

Make the Alpine Bend for rest knot friendship bracelet portion

Step4: Do the closure of knot friendship bracelet

When there only remains two wire ends in each side, cross the four ends and take another wire strand to make a natural closure by the square knot.

Do the closure of knot friendship bracelet

Here, you have obtained a new fabulous gift for your friends now. The center Carrick Bend, in the knot friendship bracelet, just rightly symbolize two hand-in-hand person; and the Alpha Bend, which can be tight steady even there is only one of it, just show the forever love between you and your friends. Doesn’t that sound so fantastic? For more tutorials about making easy knot friendship bracelets, welcome to take a look at here!

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Comments (12)

Jul 11, 2014 at 05:23 PM greg yoon

More details for the second part pleaseee!!! I dont get it D:

Jul 24, 2014 at 06:41 AM amazing arzoo

please give me more detail about step 3

Aug 03, 2014 at 01:28 PM hershel ooley

can you show more details about the alpine bend?

Aug 09, 2015 at 06:35 PM Jacqueline Young

more details on steps 5 & 6 please.

Aug 29, 2015 at 05:16 AM Jarred Froggatt

Can't do carrick bend doesn't look right I've followed all the steps but it just come out like a horrible looking knot more details please

Nov 07, 2021 at 07:43 PM Sze Lee

Hello! The pictures are not loading properly, is there a way to get a copy? Thank you!