Cool Ear-phone Bracelet Tutorial

Hello!!!  I hope some of you enjoyed my last post with the String Art Board tutorial and today I have a tutorial for a really cool recycled ear-phone bracelet. I have used mostly pictures and some of them are not to clear but I hope you are able to see and understand them. Enjoy!

What you will need:

A pair of old/broken earphones.

Scissors.

A pen or pencil.

If your ear-phones have a small joining piece like this carefully cut it off. Also cut of the ear-phone heads and the plug.

Then pull the two strings apart. 

Making sure the strings are even, slip knot them onto the pen.

STEP 1.
Then take the left outside string and put it between the two right-side strings.

Then take the outside right string and put it behind the two middle strings and in front of the outside left string.

Then pull the two outside strings tight.

STEP 2.

Now take the right outside string and put it in front of the other strings, to the left.

Now take the outside left string and loop it behind the two middle strings and through the loop made by the right string. 

Pull tight and you should have a stitch shaped like a side-ways V, like the picture below.

STEP 3.

The next stitch is the same as Step 2., only on the left side.

Take the outside left string and place it over the other strings. 

Then take the outside right string and loop it through the left string, behind the middle strings and out of the loop made by the left string.

I hope that makes some sense!

Then repeat Step 2. to complete the stitch.

Repeat Steps 2. and 3. until the bracelet is around an inch too short for your wrist.

You will notice that the outside strings are a LOT shorter than the middle strings. Knot the outside strings together as tight as you can, then cut short enough to be able to untie when you want.

Take the bracelet off the pen.

Untwist and flatten the two loops.

Cut the middle strings. Leave enough length of string to double knot to the loops.

I hope you liked this tutorial and were able to understand it!

String Art Board Tutorial

I made this for my parents for Christmas, it was a little tricky but worth it!

What you will need: 

1. A board - It should be at least 1 1/2 cm thick.

 2. A template with your design, 

I used HOME. You can easily find these on Pinterest.

3. A hammer

4. Small nails - I'm not sure on the exact size but they were about 2cm long.

Mine used 322 nails, so be prepared!!

5. Pliers - For holding the nails when you hammer them in, it helps to get all the nails even.

6. Thread - Mine was quite thin, cross-stitch thread would be best.

7. Tape

First of all tape your paper template onto the board on both sides. The template should have dots were the nails should go. I nailed left-right, top-bottom. I used a Melteca board and with that you have to be careful to nail evenly and not split the thin top layer.

This picture is up-side-down but it is clear enough to see the paper and nails. 

Once you have finished all the nails carefully peal of the paper. Use tweezers or pliers to get any scraps of paper that have stuck to the nails.

When you start threading make sure you know whether you are threading inside or outside of the nails. I did the inside. If you want to do the outside the nails then you need to do a row of nails around the edge of the board and thread between that and the letter shaped nails.

First thread around around the outside of the letters and then fill the rest in. Go crazy! There is no particular pattern.

Use any colors you want, but it looks better if you use at least 2 colours.

I hope you were able to understand this all right and that maybe it will be helpful if you ever want to do some string art of your own.

Thanks for checking this out!