I've been seeing these all over Pinterest, made with plain twine, and cute solid colored buttons, and thought "I can do that. I can top that." And so I promptly dug out my rainbow waxed thread, and my burgeoning button stash, and whipped these up. I'm not sure about how to finish the ends though, knot them? Attach jewellery clasps? For now I've left them loose, so they can be tied to fit, like a friendship bracelet.

If internet trends are anything to go by, these are going to be huge this Summer, so I'm getting in now. :D This is part of the stock I'm making up for my cube at the Geelong in.cube.8r store, which I hope to have set up by next week. Don't worry, I'll make sure to let you all know when ;)

This is the sheet music for the Lennon song Imagine. More specifically the line where it says "You may say I'm a dreamer". I modified this pattern to be rainbow on black, instead of blue on cream. It takes a little more concentration to follow the pattern that way, but it looks much prettier.

Rainbows make everything look nicer. :D

A ten string band made with this pattern. It's very simple, and looks very effective, as long as you keep all the knots and strings tight.

I think it looks even better on the back - 'scuse the poor focus, I got bumped as I took the photo.

These are sized for a child's wrist. The front one is from this pattern, using pink floss instead of black, the middle band is the Chinese Ladder style, which is forward knots wrapped around all the other strings in the band, for a set number of stitches before swapping strings. The back 'band' is just some leftover floss that looked too pretty to throw out. I'm hoping to be able to fasten it somehow, perhaps with a safety pin. These took roughly an hour or two each.

Here is another Winter Solstice present, this time from a pattern I modified myself, from a rainbow and black stripe, into rainbow with black letters.

This was the starting graph I used, if you'd like to make your own band with different letters I recommend starting with a graph like that. The next step was to make a knot map, so I knew line by line what strings to knot in which direction.

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Once I had the hang of this, and the letters were all done, I didn't need my map anymore, and I could knot in front of the tv. It took about two days, in comparison with the whole week the Pink Floyd band took me.

Knotted from this pattern at www.friendship-bracelets.net, this was a Winter Solstice present for my best friend who is a Pink Floyd fan. It took me ages, because I'd never done an alpha pattern before, and I completely underestimated how much of each floss colour I'd need, but I was very happy with the result. If it had been for anyone but my best friend, I'd have given up halfway through, and unless DP asks for one (he won't, he's not a fan) I'm never making it again. It looks great, but save it for when you are an advanced knotter, or for someone you really love!