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Hi everyone, I'm making pattern #38818 (cherries) and so far the image on the bracelet looks really stretched out, especially the red part of the cherries. My knots are pretty tight, is this a tension issue? Or is this just the way bracelets usually are?

This seems to be a common issue. I rarely do alphas but I think knotting less tightly can help. You can also try to use thicker base strings or even doubling your base strings. You can also push up the knots after each row by using a ruler or something similar.

It’s normal pattern #38818 isn’t it? That’s a pattern with 1212-structure and those patterns always look stretched, you can’t really do anything about it. Have a look at this tutorial for comparison between different structures.

Wow, what great advice everyone. Way to work as a team.

Oops, I didn't check if the pattern was a normal or alpha. I just assumed it was an alpha because this is a very common issue with alphas.

I think I fixed the issue! Thank you so much everyone!