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...are really hard for me. It's not a problem of being new to bracelet making or reading the patterns; I love doing the wide ones and have started doing necklace-bracelet sets. When I try to do things like the peace sign or the yin-yangs or even the dragon, though, there are so many fk/bk and bk/fk knots that I can't keep track of which thread is which or how many knots are left in a given line of color. I look at the patterns and go @.@;;;;

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions to help make sense and keep track of these?

Print off the pattern and cross each knot off as you go??

Hah, thanks. That's a sensible suggestion. I think it'd end with me pulling my hair out, though. :D