Plain or patterned bracelets in micro macramé with Linhasita waxed thread

Cut a 30 cm wire. Place it horizontally on your stand. If you are using a Macramé Board, use the side notches to hold the wire in place, or use clips, for example, on another stand.

This is a temporary wire, which will be removed later.

Then place one of the 110 mm wires vertically under the horizontal wire. Leave 20 cm above the horizontal wire.

Make 2 stick knots.

To do this, pinch together, with your thumb and forefinger, the intersection of the 2 threads (here represented by a needle). 1/ Take the bottom of the vertical thread and pass it on the horizontal thread. 2/ Pass it under the horizontal thread 3/ come out in the loop created and 4/ tighten well.

The first stick knot is made.

Creation of the 2nd baguette knot: proceed in the same way a second time: 1/ Take the bottom of the vertical thread and pass it on the horizontal thread. 2/ Pass it under the horizontal wire 3/ come out in the created loop and 4/ tighten well.

We then obtain 2 vertical bars (baguettes).

Proceed in this way for the 18 threads, placing them as follows: 2 golden threads - 14 coral threads - 2 golden threads.

Gather them well next to each other.

The threads are ready to start weaving. The goal is to work the threads 2 by 2.

We start by isolating the first 2 threads on the left. The A wire is the carrier wire. It is always above the second thread. The B thread is the one that will make the 2 knots.

We will work here from left to right.

Take thread A and point it to the right, above thread B. Make a stick knot with thread B on thread A: 1/ thread B passes on thread A, then 2/ under thread A, 3/ passing back through the loop of thread B. 4/ Tighten the knot all the way up.

Then tie a second identical knot. You get 2 oblique stick knots.

Reserve wires A and B on the left, and take the next 2 wires C and D.

Proceed in the same way: take the carrying wire C and orient it to the right, above the wire D. Make a stick knot with the wire D on the wire C: 1/ the wire D passes on wire C, then 2/ under thread C, passing back through the loop of thread D. Tighten the knot all the way to the top. Then make a ^second identical knot. You get 2 oblique bars. Reserve the C&D threads on the left.

Repeat this process with each of the 2 wires that follow on the right.

The first line is finished.

Now the operation will be repeated, but in reverse, from right to left.

Isolate the last gold wire on the right (R). Now repeat the rod knot with the next two wires (P & Q), this time from right to left. The right wire (Q) represents the support wire. It is always on top. The P wire is the one that will make the 2 knots.

Take wire Q and point it to the right, above wire P. Make a stick knot with wire Pon wire Q: 1/ wire P goes over wire Q, then 2/ under wire Q, passing back through the loop of wire P. Tighten the knot all the way to the top. Then make a second identical knot. You get 2 slanted bars. Reserve the P & Q threads on the right and proceed in the same way with the 2 following threads on the left (N & O).

Continue this way to the end of the line. The last knots on the left are made with the C and B yarns. The two rows are then completed, while wire A will be recovered to start the next row, to the right.

For the 3rd row, we go back to the right. We recover the threads A and B, and we start again from the step 5.

Advice:to never wonder in which direction to go and where we are, I advise you: 1/ to position on your support a post-it with an arrow allowing you never to forget in which direction the carrying threads must go. The post-it is to be reversed at each new row. 2/ always make a whole row before stopping to not lose the thread.

After you have completed a number of rows and to easily reassemble your work on your stand, you can unhook the temporary horizontal thread and pull hard on it to release it. Stretch all the threads upwards to make them flat again.

The bracelet made here measures 16 cm. It will then be completed with a sliding knot to adjust its length.

For a perfectly symmetrical bracelet, as in this example, the last row of the work must stop when the 2 golden threads have made 2 baguette knots. You will then be back to the initial situation on the other side of the bracelet.

How to make the triangle to end each end of the bracelet:

Row 1: Start as in Step 9, throwing the R thread to the side, right, and beginning the knots with the P and Q threads. Continue this process until the end of the row.

Row 2: we leave the A and B wires on the left and start the nodes with the next wires. At the end of the row, it does not make the nodes with the last wires, Q & R.

Row 3 to the left: leave wires P, Q and R aside, to the right, and resume knotting with carrier wire to the left, starting with wires O and N. Stop before the end, not tying knots with wires A, B, C and D.

Row 4 to the right: we start the row with the E & F wires. We stop on the right, leaving the N to R wires aside.

Row 5 to the left: we continue according to the same principle, leaving the wires N to R aside to the right. We continue with the following wires to the left.

Continue to do the same with the last 3 rows, until you have 2 golden threads at the end of the triangle.

You can now proceed in exactly the same way for the other triangle of the bracelet.

You can now cut the wires on each side, taking care to keep the 2 golden wires at the end of each of the 2 triangles. Then burn the excess wires with a lighter.

Last step: use one of the cut wires to make the slip knot to finish the bracelet.

See section xxx for all the details to create it.

Finally add small Miyuki beads before making a knot at the end of each golden thread (average length of each golden thread: 7 cm, to be adapted according to the size of your handle).

Now it's up to you! This model can be declined endlessly in terms of number of colors and number of threads. Here are some examples.

1. Bracelet with 12 wires, monochrome.

2. Bracelets of 8 threads, monochrome.

3. Bracelet 3 colors, 24 wires : 10x coral, 4x gold and 10x blue