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hi! i am new to making friendship bracelets and i am so confused on how to read the pattern. any help or explanations would be greatly appreciated.

There's a tutorial on reading patterns https://friendship-bracelets.net/tutorials/367

You might also want to check out our tutorial about the 4 different knots that are used for making friendshipbracelets.

In patterns, the lines represent the strings, and the dots with arrows in them represent the knots.

It takes some getting used to but you HAVE TO do one row at a time!! I didnt understand that when I started using patterns and it was a total mess

You have to knot row by row when making an alpha pattern but when making a normal pattern you don't have to. You can either knot row by row too which is the simplest and safest method or you could try to knot in segments/diagonals. There are lots of great tutorials on segment knotting on YouTube. Segment knotting is a little faster than knotting row by row but it's also a little bit more advanced.

i really wish i found this website when i was learning how to read patterns. it took me a few days to understand what to do.. but i'm good now, just trying to learn to make alphas now.