(( Bracelets )) How to make a totem pole
To make this bracelet, you must know how to make the chevron.What you'll need:
Four strings, around 64 inches, which will be folded in half so you will have an 8 string bracelet.
This bracelet is made in 2 parts.
The first part:
1. Fold your strings in half, and use whichever method your heart desires to tie it at the top. :)
2. Order your strings 12344321, so they're mirrored, here I have used yellow, orange, green and purple.
3. Make four chevrons.
The second part:
This is the part you continue to make the totem effect through out the bracelet. I've highlighted it blue so you know where to start again in continuing the totem pole effect.
Your string order should be back to 12344321 or yellow, orange, green, purple, purple, green, orange and yellow.
4. You need to make 1 more row of chevron
5. Now take the string on the far left (orange) and tie 2 forward knots onto the next two strings (green and purple)
6. Now on the far right side take your orange and tie 2 backward knots onto the next two strings (green and purple)
7. On the far left side of the bracelet, you want to take the green and make a f/bk knot over the purple.
8. Now you want to do the same on the right side of the bracelet. Take the green and make a bk/f knot over the purple.
9. Now back to the left hand side, take the orange and make 2 bk knots over the purple and green so it's back on the outside.
10. Now on the right side of the bracelet, take the orange and make 2 f knots over the purple and green.
11. Now go to the middle and take your yellow string and you want to make 2 f knots over the purple and green and a f/bk knot over the orange.
12. Back to the middle take the yellow and make 2 bk knots over the purple and green and a bk/f knot over the orange. Your strings should be in this order: O,Y,G,P,P,G,Y,O
13. Take the yellow and make a chevron over the green and purple on both sides.
14. To close it off you need to take the orange and make a chevron over the strings.
Here is a youtube video to make it easier to see how it's done:
Hopefully with all the photo's and step by step this tutorial will be easier to understand. Sorry for the quality of the photo's on such short notice - Acid
:)
Editors
The original author of this tutorial is fieldhockey8 .
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