Cross Knot Design!

There's a simple but pretty pattern that I often use if I'm making a bracelet for a friend or to sell which can easily be made more exciting through the use of a charm or lots of different clours being incuded with in the bracelet. All you really need is material such as wool or yarn or I normally use embroidery floss and scissors since this design isn't hard to do. It will be even easier if you do use a clipboard but it isn't necessary. So here's how you make it:

• Cut yourself two lengths of your chosen material. To be totally honest I'm not sure how long the lengths have to be as I normally measure mine from my thumb to my opposing shoulder.
• Fold the strings in half and at the half point and tie a knot so you have a smallish loop and the rest of your string's are loose. You can use the loop to tie it when you have finished the bracelet.
• Keep the colours together and chose one of them to knot first.

• Place the strands over the other ones in the shape of a four. I have shown just two strands in the diagrams just to show you how its done.

• Pull the strands that you have just made into a four under the other strands and back through the previously made loop. This will make your first knot. In a normal friendship bracelet this would be half a full knot but just forget about this for this bracelet. 

• With the other two strands repeat the above steps. Make sure the strands don't swap places when you do this as it will make the bracelet twisted.

• Keep repeating these steps until just before you reach your desired length. 

• When you have stopped knotting you can finish it off how ever you want to but I tend to have a strand of each colour and twist them around each other so you can put one through the loop and knot it tightly with the other one. 

So I hope this is easy to understand and the pictures aren't to bad, but if you have any questions feel free to ask. Have fun!