Candy Stripe friendship bracelet and my first Alpha pattern

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I decided to go back a few years and try my hand at friendship bracelet making again, just because my wrists have been looking a bit boring recently. I had to do a lot of YouTube watching to figure out how to make them, it's been years.

To start off I made a candy stripe bracelet, just something simple to start off with:

Here's a tutorial and pattern for a candy stripe bracelet: http://friendship-bracelets.net/tutorial.php?id=12

I think this pattern is a good one to start of with, it's simple but effective. Very repetitive to make which is good for practice and there are no complicated bits! 

After a bit of practice I decided to try my first ever alpha pattern. I thought alpha patterns were complicated to make...either I picked a really easy one or they are not particularly difficult. I suppose they get a bit harder when you need to add new colours half way down the pattern etc. The one I chose was just two colours. 

I cut 18 strands of green thread (the thread I used was a multicoloured thread so it had a gradual change from green to yellow and back again, so although it looks like i used different coloured thread it is actually all just one skein of the same thread) and used black thread as the main colour. I kept the black thread on the skein to make this just because I didn't know how much I would need. 

Here's the completed lizard:

    

    

 You can find the alpha pattern I used here: http://friendship-bracelets.net/alpha_pattern.php?id=476

Once you get the hang of these they are pretty easy, very time consuming though especially if you're a perfectionist like me. Just don't forget where you are in the pattern as your making it! 

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DIY Wire ear cuffs

To make a change from crochet I decided to buy some wire. 20ga purple wire to be exact. I have always liked ear cuffs and thought I'd try to make some, only simple ones obviously. So my first try was this:

I made it by following this tutorial: http://shealynns-faerie-shoppe.blogspot.nl/2012/07/simple-ear-cuff-tutorial.html?m=1

It didn't take long to make at all and it's quite easy to follow. I added the stone from a broken bracelet that I had lying around.

Then I tried another cuff seen as I made that one really quickly:

I made this cuff from studying one on the Internet but there was no tutorial. This wasn't as easy to make, getting it evenly spaced was tricky.  I think I prefer the first one I made but here's a picture of them both being worn: 

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