DIY Spiderman Bracelet

After practicing making the candy stripe bracelet and the lizard alpha pattern I wanted to try something bigger and a little more complicated. This took me quite a while to make... I managed to get through a few seasons of the L Word whilst making it.

19 black background strings were needed to make this bracelet, I use embroidery thread. 15 of these strings were 40inches long and 4 were made longer. The longer strings I used to make macramé knots for the loop and tails of the buckle. A tutorial for the buckle can be found here: http://friendship-bracelets.net/tutorial.php?id=24. I used one full red skein and the start of a second skein and only a bit of white to complete this.

(More technical: I used 7 black strings that were 80inches long and folded them to make 14 strings at 40inches long, 1 black string I cut to 40inches and the macramé strings were two strings at about 90 inches long also folded into two to make 4 strings. Believe it or not that makes 19 background strings all-together.) 

Halfway through making the bracelet one of my black background threads broke which was incredibly annoying! However I tied another black thread to the broken one and managed to get the joining knot to the back of the bracelet luckily it's not even noticeable.

 The pattern for this can be found here:

http://friendship-bracelets.net/alpha_pattern.php?id=34463

This site has pretty much all the info you would ever need for these kind of bracelets and ridiculous amounts of patterns. I think my next will be 'Marvel' bracelet...when I get the motivation to start another one...

DIY Feather Earring

One of my dream catchers broke which I'm not too happy about, but waste not want not, what could I do with the feathers?... So In addition to my Ear Cuffs I decided to try making an earring. For this all I used was an old earring that I don't really like and have never worn and turned it into something I would wear. I've always liked feather earrings but never bought any so thought I'd give it a try. 

Using the wire I used to make the Ear Cuffs I made a small loop in the wire about an inch in from the end using pliers. I lay the feather along the inch of wire the thick part of the feather just under the loop. Using the pliers I made a coil as tight as I could around the feather and the inch of wire to keep the feather in place. When I was happy that the feather wasn't going to slip out I cut the wire and folded the end in so it wouldn't poke me constantly. I also trimmed a bit off the inch of wire at the end as it was a bit long.  (If none of this makes any sense to you whatsoever there are loads of tutorials on the web). 

Then I dismantled the ugly earring I've never worn and hooked the loop of the feather onto it, I also added some of the beads from the earring I destroyed just for a bit of interest. You obviously don't need to go destroying your earrings, earring hooks can be bought from most craft stores.