 Hey guys, how are you today? So this is going to be a little crochet tutorial Simple don't don't let that freak you out. This is a really simple stuff You really don't have to know lots about crocheting to do this. I swear I showed a picture on Pinterest recently and I'll try to include it right here Not on Pinterest. I'm sorry on Social media on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter. I'll try to put it right here Where I had made a bunch of these little Tied and crocheted bracelets and I showed them stacked up on my arm a whole bunch of them at once I really like the way that looks and I know there's lots of companies out there that do these little like friendship type bracelets and They're really pretty but they're really expensive And I wanted to try to incorporate some of the bits and pieces that I already had and some things that you guys Sent me into something that I could like wear and take around with me. So that's what I did and I made these Last night just in a few minutes So I thought I would This is one that I already had that was store bought and I used it as inspiration for to make these I Don't remember where I got this. I know somebody's gonna ask me and don't remember And these are nothing like this I use this as inspiration and for measurements, but that's about it Anyway, I these were so popular in the post that I made last night I thought I'd get on here and show you guys how to make some of these and we'll do the basic one first And by basic I mean This one Now you could just do a bunch of these plain ones Like this and you could just do a whole bunch of these in different colors and You could just stack them on your arm. They'd be real They'd be really cute so I Have to do it with my teeth, but you just pull these two ends And it tightens up the bracelet now. I don't like my bracelets too tight, but you're gonna Make them for you and how they fit you and I you know and they these will just dangle in the back You can do I did this one the same way as these only I Put a piece of ribbon in there as I was crocheting and then it came out actually a little bit big So I tied two knots in it and I really like the way that turned out You can just keep stacking them up All different colors Right, and you can also do some like I did this one This is a little piece of lace that was in my grandmother's sewing box when she passed away So I didn't know what to do with it. So I took it and I Made it into one of these bracelets by using it as the base and then just crocheting down the sides And I'm gonna show you kind of how I did that too And you just stack them up here's one that I made and This metal piece was gifted to me I Think in a pocket letter I don't remember now because now I've taken everything apart. I don't remember it was either in happy mail or a pocket letter And I did something similar to the lace piece and I just Crochet around it and attached it and this metal piece had two holes on each side So it was really easy to crochet up to the holes and you know crochet through the holes I did some crocheting across the back and then out the other side If you crochet, you know what I mean This is one that I made using some paper beads that miss Peter sent me kind of quite a while back They've been floating around my studio Begging for me to do something with them and you just and they look really great strapped up stacked up This is one made with a bead somebody gifted to me in happy mail again quite a while ago And I honestly don't remember who gave me the bead, but it's just gorgeous. It might have been secret Soto I don't know it might not have been if it's you please speak up. I Love the bead. I have loved the bead and it's again been begging for me to do something with it So then you just stack them up and you can put as few or as many as you want and they're really cute Look I like them So I'm gonna take all these off now that I did that and I'm gonna show you first how to do a basic one and Then I'm gonna show you how to incorporate some beads. I have some paper beads and some glass beads. I have this which is I'm gonna do the same way. I did this bigger one. This smaller one only has one Loop on each side, but this again this I know was in a pocket letter Somebody gifted me And then need so I some cotton or embroidery floss now. I happen to have crochet cotton This is number 10 crochet cotton either DMC or Flora Some of this is Elizabeth. I think which is an Egyptian cotton These are kind of high-end crochet cotton But you can just use embroidery floss. You don't have to have crochet cotton I also have been playing with using some of the embroidery floss and things you guys have been sending me And some of the like twine and things that have been wrapped around some of the packages You guys have sent me so you could do that too You're gonna need a couple of crochet hooks now For most of the crocheting I am using a crochet hook Size F. This is a metal F boil needle boing boy. I Don't have my glasses on boy B-O-Y-E and then this is a smaller baits steel hook. This is a Number seven you want something that's really teeny like this Or maybe even smaller because sometimes you're gonna have to reach into your beads To grab the thread and pull the thread through so you're gonna want a crochet hook that fits inside your bead This bead may be a little small for this hook I might have to if I decide to do this one. I might have to use a different hook I also have some paper beads out here now I've been gifted and or made a lot of paper beads Over the years, and I think I would do these a little bit differently But they would be interesting thing on a bracelet too, so we'll see if I don't know if I'm gonna do these today But we'll see first. Let's just do a basic one and I want to do I Think I want to do I didn't do very many blues last night, so I think I want to do some more things in blue Let's take this turquoise color because I really like this color and you can combine colors or you can just use the one color I But you're gonna probably want to use about three strands Did I stop to get my noodle work scissors before I did? Of course not So we'll do first a basic one So you're gonna want to do a slipknot. I'm gonna zoom in so you can see me a little bit clearer Okay, so first you want to do a slipknot. Yeah Again, so do that and then pull the thread through slipknot You want to leave a tail about like this Put your crochet hook in the knot in the loop and then pull and it should tighten up around the crochet hook. Yeah Then you want to take your crochet hook and You want to pull your thread through the loop on the hook keeping a fair amount of tension on the bottom here and On this thread one two three You want to do this about? Well, it depends on how long you want your bracelet. So you want to do it between 20 and 30 times, okay? I'm actually gonna start a little bit farther back because my actually my thread might be not a little bit long enough You might you want to have about 18 inches to 24 inches of thread. So let's see one two five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen oops fourteen fifteen Sixteen. Yeah, so it's not long enough. All right, let's do that again. I'm gonna do about Two feet two to three feet of thread times three. Let's try that again We're gonna use this don't don't worry about this going to waste because it's not gonna go to waste I'll show you why in a minute So again, we're gonna do a slip knot take my crochet hook in there when you do your last stitch Pull the thread all the way through and then just yank on it and pull it tight and you'll have something that looks like this Yeah So then you're gonna cross it over Whoops, so you're gonna cross it over Like this Then you're gonna take another piece of thread, which is what we're gonna use this for Now last night, I just held on to this and did this but I think you should just put a couple of little binder clips here or clothes pins To just hold everything out of your way and then wrap this other thread around these this here Three or four times four and you know this is only this difficult because I'm doing it on camera last night I had no problem All right, then I'm gonna give it kind of a yank and squish all those wraps like together so that you have something that looks like that Yeah And then I'm gonna tie it in a knot. I always tie three times and Then clip take your binder clips off and then take your two ends that are hanging out on each side The two loose ends you can't leave them like this because when you go to adjust your bracelet and put it on and take It off it'll pull right out of that little knot that you made right here It would pull right out So what you want to do is you want to take your thread ends and You want to tie them In a knot plus you have a bunch of multiple ends of thread here, and that's just you don't want that either So tie it off a few times try over this tie it a few times in the same place so that you get kind of a big knot and Also, don't tie your tails too short. You want to leave an inch or two So that you have a room to slide the bracelet on and off You don't want to make it too small, and I found that tying the thread ends three times gave me a nice big size knot And then I'm gonna trim it Okay So then you have a one then you have a bracelet just plain. Yeah, so The other thing I do is I take this is called fray check This is by dritz and this is in the sewing notions of any fabric or craft store You could use fabric glue. You could use crazy glue. You could probably use Elmer's just use something that dries clear Put it on the knots that you made on The center knot and on each end and that'll keep things from coming undone and coming unraveled Don't put so much glue on this center knot that you glue everything together and it doesn't slide open and closed Because that would be bad and then I've just been taking them and clipping them to the hooks above my desk Until they dry All right Now let's make one with a little piece of lace in it. I have a few different selections Let's see and I kind of think I really want to I want to use this one too. This is from happy mail from I think from Victor. These are some more little pieces for my grandmother's Box of stuff. I guess some little pieces of projects that she never finished I'm really kind of filling the piece from Victor. So when I did this one, I used a piece of my grandmother's lace and I basically just crocheted on each side and then I finished the back the same way I did the other one On this one We're gonna do it a little bit differently, so let's see So I'm gonna cut off about seven inches of lace. I was measuring it there a little bit off-camera My table has a grid on it. Oops See So I was measuring it to the side and I just took a seven inch piece I like that and I want to incorporate that right this with some other stuff too. I think I think I'm gonna use this color and I might have purple like this somewhere. Let me go look. I'll be right back But I might it's almost an exact match. So this is definitely these little ones are Lisbeth size 10 Egyptian cotton crochet cotton You can use it actually for tatting knitting or crocheting. I use it for crocheting little doilies and little projects like this Comes in a million different colors So I do want to incorporate some of this purple into this Yes, so I'm gonna use two neutrals and the purple. I mind about the design of this bracelet Because midway I decided I didn't like what was happening But I also decided that I had something that I thought would be better So I'll show you what I'm talking about. So I'm going to start again with a crochet of two And I'm gonna pull the whole entire long tail through that that crochet to not that you can see what I'm doing Okay, now you can see what I'm doing and I'm gonna take that not the short end here Okay, not the short end here. This is the crocheted piece not the short end this longer end and I'm gonna Using the crochet hook as a tool I'm going to weave it in and out the holes of the center hole of the lace I'm gonna do about one two three four maybe five of them and then I have these little metal Roses that were gifted to me They're teeny tiny little metal Roses and they won't fit on all of these strings of yarn, but they will fit on one So I'm gonna try to thread it through oops keeping in mind which top of the flower is the top part weave it down into one Ring across the back side of the metal flower and up Into the other side so that when it lies flat on the bracelet the rose is facing up because that would be Important and then slide it down and then I think what I want to do is Put a knot you should probably use your binder clips to hold this like together so it doesn't slide around Those of you who know how to macrame probably are already screaming that at the camera I have a macrame since I was a teenager so that's a little long time ago So I'm gonna just tie a knot there so it doesn't Slide down too far I like that and then I'm gonna keep weaving I made sure I catch all of the threads of yarn There we go Trick to knitting or crocheting with multiple threads is to hold them all together and treat them as if they're one big piece of thread or yarn Alright, so then I'm gonna keep doing that all the way across until I get about five from the end over here And then I'll show you how we're gonna finish it. I'll be right back somebody gifted these to me I don't know who but There we go. So now we're gonna tie this in a knot here if you're the one that gifted him to me. Thank you Cuz they're really pretty there we go Then I'm gonna keep weaving this all the way through To the end this last one does not want to stay up right there. We go Okay So I'm gonna keep weaving The what did I just say about the last one always being the most difficult there we go All right, so then I'm gonna Put another clip right here because I don't want this to slide around or get tight or do something funky While I'm finishing the bracelet And then I'm gonna put a slipknot right here next to the lace hopefully Take a little maneuvering To get the slipknot to be kind of close to the lace. It doesn't have to be perfect, but my hook in there That's pretty good though. So it's right up there against the lace and then again. I'm gonna chain two Just like I did in the beginning and then I'm gonna pull the tail end through and pull it tight Take my clips off. That's gonna be cute All right, I'm going to take this and Okay, when you're doing this make sure that your lace doesn't get twisted Cross over your threads just like we did with the first one and Put a clip on each side Okay, now one of these tails is a really long So I'm gonna clip it shorter and that's what we're gonna use to make our little center pull knot three or four times two Think I'm gonna just do three because there's a lot of yarn here and I pull it tight And tie a knot try not to throw your scissors in the trash can Cut your little ends take your clips off. Make sure you didn't do it wrong Okay, and then tie knots in your ends two or three times to get yourself a big knot Again on the other side maybe Maybe not Let's try that again It's just some cuz I'm on camera, you know cuz you know we're filming so things aren't working right and then trim And then don't forget to put your fray check on your knots okay And that's gonna be a cute one and that can that can dry that's gonna be really cute especially stacked Okay, let's do another one I'll show you how to do a basic bead one and This one and this one are done in a similar fashion. This just has two strands because it had four holes on each side of the bead and you can see that I ran the chains across the back Of the metal piece. I you know crocheted up to the hole crocheted through the hole Across the back out the other hole and down the side and I just did it twice and then tied them in a knot right here This one's done in a similar fashion with just one bead And this one was done the same as this one only with three beads so And I actually have an idea for another one let's do One with a paper beads We can do one with just thread first too. I don't know. Let's see. Yeah, this will work So we'll use these these are left over from the purple one that we just did I'm gonna cut the I'm gonna I doubled it over and I'm gonna cut them. So I have multiple strands here and Then I'm going to take Some of these paper beads that I have I'm going to pick a strand of thread Out of the stack and I'm going to do three beads of a similar color on each On separate strands these ones that are that I'm picking our Kind of a brown and cream and taupey colors these green ones Oh heck, I might wait. I might use all these beads So I'll pick a different strand And I'm going to string three more Maybe because you know still don't have those reading glasses It's not like they're far away. They're just on the other side of the room Now if you have paper beads that have a really tight hole or you're having trouble with your thread You may need to do this with a needle This crochet cotton seems to be doing pretty good though You could mix the colors up and just do them real randomly too. It just depends on what you want to do I'm one more set of beads. I'm going to pull out Some blue and I'm going to just add some plain strands And some more colors. I've got some green here. I might add some green to this Got this kind of rusty reddish orange color. This is what a design. I thought of last night that I didn't make I thought of after I went to bed So I like that and they're all like grouped together And you could do this with beads on like every strand instead of just beads on some of the strands It's just depends on what you want to do now. I'm going to just tie a knot in one end I want to pull all these strings kind of tightly So nothing is too loose I'm going to measure again about seven inches one two. I want to tie another knot You know the length that you do this is going to depend on how you know big you want your bracelet or you help you don't You know depending on if you have little wrists or big wrists and see that what that's cute That's cute All right So then the I the thing is what to do with all these strands. Do we leave them? I think we're going to just leave them and we're going to wrap them around each other like we did before We're going to clip them with our little binder clips Got to catch all of the threads in this or it's not going to work There was no crocheting involved in this one. You notice I'm going to take one of my colors of yarn and I'm going to just use the dark brown because I think that would be the easiest and I'm going to Double it and then double it again. So I have four strands and just like before I'm going to wrap and tie Just like I did before you're just doing it over a lot more strings of yarn Then we were doing the first time Or the second time Take off your binder clips and take one side and tie all of these strands together in a knot Make sure you catch them all It might be a little bit challenging because there's a lot of strands I'm just going to do it twice or the knot is going to be gigantic the other side This is a cute one and look at that and it's got all these really great Paper beads on it and things that I've either made or been gifted. I love that It's always the last one. Why is it always the last one that gives you like the most? commotion most problem All right, well I'm going to need More of a haircut than the others Okay, then some free check. I need kind of a lot on these ginormous knots So you want to make sure they're like glued and sealed shut That one's going to be really pretty Hang that up. So let's do one more. I'm going to give you an idea of how to do a basic one like this We're going to use all the blues. I think together. I think just the blues We've got three different shades of blue here. I pulled out of my stash last night So I'm going to start with about I don't know six or eight inches And then I'm going to make my slipknot pull it tight on the hook I'm going to crochet ten chains. That's what this is called one two three oops three four five Six seven eight nine ten then I'm going to take my little Jewelry piece that I was gifted and I'm going to switch hooks so I can get this little or one through One of these loops Oh, it doesn't fit I need a smaller hook. Hang on. Let me get one. I got a smaller hook. This one is a It says it's a seven, but so does this one I don't know. I just know it fits That one doesn't fit So I'm going to stick it through the hole on the jewelry piece And I'm going to grab all my crochet threads and I'm going to pull them through Then I'm going to switch back to the hooker that I'm doing the crocheting with Which is bigger. Do about ten. That's actually way too many. Let's do five You want to do just enough to reach that other loop across the back That's too many So just eyeball it and see how far you get. Yeah five is good. So we're going to do five Then we're going to switch back to the little hook again so we can pull our threads through the Loop on the jewelry piece Just take your time and pull everything tight and taut And so that's 15. So let's do 10 more And then we're going to cut off another like six or eight inches And pull it through that last loop all the way and then pull it tight That's a good just basic Um Bracelet and that's how I did this one only I did it twice because there's two Uh rows of loop rings on this metal piece So I did it once across the bottom Then I did it once across the top just like this and then I took the two and tied them in knots right here And then finished the back of the bracelet just like I did the other ones I'm going to show you how to do one of these kind now I've shown you how to do the back a number of times. So we're good there I think So this one I'll do one with this glass bead And let's do another blue one Because I didn't do that many blue ones last night Maybe instead of this dark blue we'll throw in a little bit of the pink We'll throw on some pink pink would be cute like this one. Yeah, I like that. Let's put the green Let's put a green and let's do four All right, so for this one Again, we're going to start with six or eight inches and we're going to do a slipknot I'm going to crochet. I want this to be in the middle and I like the bracelets to be like I said between 25 and 30 stitches so um, we're going to do like 12 12 then we're going to take our loop and we're going to make it really big Now take our little hook We're going to stick it through the bead We're going to grab the threads And we're going to slide the bead over the hook And pull those threads all the way through the bead Except I missed one Let's try that again. Okay through the bead Through the yarn pull the yarn through the bead. I still missed one Maybe this hook I need to go to this hook. I have smaller hooks There we go All right, so you want to have it like that. Yeah Then we're going to put our big hook back in here and we're going to pull this tight So it's like that Then we're going to crochet 12 more One and that first one's going to look like this. Yeah two three four oops five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 Then you're going to cut off your six to eight inches And you're going to pull it all the way through And then you have one with a bead on it And you're going to finish it the same way as you've done the others and that's how you get this one What else do I have here? How about I have all these charms. I thought I might use So when you do the one like the paper bead instead of doing paper beads on the on the strings You could hang charms off of them Um, you could do small seed beads You could do medallions You can do a combination of things. I have this little piece of lace. This is for my grandma. There's stash of stuff So let's see if we can do something with it I'm thinking I want to bring in Some of my blues I'm gonna get rid of all these little tail thread ends. I've got this pile here I should put it out for the birds To make a nest Okay So I'm going to not even try and match this yarn because it's faded and worn That's in this little crocheted piece. It's it's never going to happen So I'm going to get some pieces. I think it would complement it A couple of blues. I've got a a tan color I think they go really nice The purple I don't think I want to add the purple. I think I want to do these I'm going to start with again six to eight inches. We're going to do a slip knot Then we're going to crochet five stitches one two three four five Then I'm going to stick my hook into one corner or end Of the little crocheted piece. I'm going to pull the yarn through the crocheted piece and the loops Then I'm going to do one two I don't want to do one two I'm going to go from the bottom up through the top of the crocheted piece and I'm going to The loop is still on the hook and I'm going to pull some threads through again From the top to the bottom So you have it like that And then I'm going to do five more one two three four five And then I'm going to cut six to eight inches off and pull them through So you have this Do it again for the other side This is how I did the other one the other piece of lace Each lace is going to be a little different how you attach your chains, but basically three four five So the only trick is to remember which Way you did it the last time so that it comes out looking the same on the other side If if that's going to bother you if it doesn't look the same It would bother me Okay, and then I'm going to Go a little farther down and bring my hook up from the bottom Pull my threads through the lace And through the loop on the crochet hook one two three four Oops Pull your threads through And then you have this Which is how I made this one And then you just tie the little sides into a knot now on this one I think I want to hang some of these charms and things off of here So I've got a few different things and I'm thinking Which one do I want to hang? Maybe this one. This is for my grandmother's stash. I'm thinking to see the tree of life I think I want to hang that one So I'm going to take some more of the same colors of thread. I was just using I'm going to leave myself a tail because I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to finish this When I did this one, I just did it plain And you could definitely do that and leave it like this and then finish off the sides in the back And that would be fine So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to tie these together I could do that. I could just literally just attach it with some of those same colored threads It sounds like an interesting idea to me. So let's try that I'm going to put it through the medallion first This happens to be, it looks like st. Francis My grandmother used to make rosaries. So she's got all these little, she had all these medallions hanging around I don't know how my glasses on. I can't read it, but it looks like it might be st. Francis So I'm thinking Right here in the center Crochet hook and pull some of the threads through The medallion came off. It might be okay though So now we have this Like this Okay, it's been a delay of interruptions detours and unexpected events. Holy cow So I was in the middle of finishing this one when people started coming home from work And my husband specifically so I had to stop filming but I went ahead and tied The medallion to the center of the lace piece. I just tied it. I pulled the Threads some of the same crochet threads I used for the strap Through the center of the lace And used it to just put some knots here and tie the medallion on and then I did put some fray check on here Just like I did on everything I finished up the backs just like we did on all the other bracelets So that is how you do some of these with the antique lace pieces And then I showed you how to do the plain ones We did this new one with the paper beads, which I just love and I can see me making some more of these I did this one which is a take-off on the plain one with a piece of ribbon woven in it and some knots I showed you how to put beads on it. I showed you how to put some of these jewelry pieces these medallions on And then we also did this new one, which I really love too So I hope that gives you some ideas of what you can do to make yourself some interesting bracelets with bits and pieces You have laying around things people have given you and that sort of thing just have some fun with it And you know layer them one on top of each other I'm going to make some more of these just plain ones to layer in between some of these other things and I Uh, I have so many plant I have so many bits and pieces I can just keep going So that's it for today You can find all of my copyright notices and disclaimers in the description below along with my contact information If you want to get ahold of me for any questions Comments concerns or maybe you wanted me to review a product that you have And you or you want to send me something in the mail my post office boxes in the description below Don't forget to like share and subscribe and have a good day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later