Musing on friendship bracelets

 Sorry about last week. Blogging has kind of fallen by the wayside, in favor of school stuff. Happy senior year to me. 

Anyways, on the bright side, now that I’m back in school, I’m back to cavandoli work, aka friendship bracelet making! For school, friendship bracelets are one of my favorite fidgets because I can stick them in a pocket and work on them any time I have a free second. 

Pink and purple four strand braid, green and yellow and metallic blue stripes, green and blue braided, green and blue thin candy-stripes, rainbow candy stripes, pink and gold braid, gray and blue and red asymmetrical fun. 

This is my current assortment, four of which are relatively new — one was a birthday present and the other three were things I did this week. 

There are a few reasons I choose bracelet-making as my fidget craft during the school year, which I thought I might briefly mention. Obviously, it’s small, and easily put away, so it’s okay to have in class. It’s also a lot better on my poor wrists than crochet, which is a plus for when I’m typing all day. And thread comes in lots of fun colors for doing cool patterns. 

However, the most important reason I like cavandoli/friendship bracelets is because they allow me to experiment. It’s a limited medium — limited in strings and size, in the number of knots, in the amount of ways to combine the strings — but it’s easy to change things. There are endless combinations of colors and patterns and new things to try. 

I’m planning on picking up the cavandoli lacework project again this year, as well as continuing with these playing-with-thread projects. I hope others will join me, and realize how this is not just a children’s craft anymore.