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Hey Y'all.
As I said I'm new and I absolutely love all the bracelets patterns you all have made! The only problem is some of them don't have good instructions....Which level of difficulty should I start out with? Under 2.00? Any hints would be highly appreciated too!!!
Thank you bunches!
~K

this is what i did, i started with the very first pattern [ordered by difficulty] and then went on from there. it makes everything SO much easier and you get a hang of it. i think that would be best for you!
good luck!
have fun knotting!

Another way is to order them by number of strings (rather than difficulty).

yes that IS also a good idea ; that is another way of rating by difficulty [in a way]

hi
im not here for a very long time but i started making 5 bracelets with 8 - 10 strings and after that i have making a 42 strings bracelet and its prety good. I think if you know the knots you can make all the bracelet . for me it dont matter what level of dificulty has the bracelet

As an experienced knotter for standard patterns I'd suggest the following for beginners:

1. Start with the "candystripe" (#1). It's a goof base for beginners to practice the FK
2. Make a mirrored "candystripe" to practice the BK.
3. Try the chevron (#2). It combines both knots and is a base for many patterns.

Then I'd go on with patterns which only use FK and BK, but not yet the other two knots.
Examples are any of the "woven" patterns (#3997, #4037, #4041, #5142....), the "multiple chevron" (#3994) or patterns based on stripes (#118, #1578; I'd also suggest #3411, but the pattern has some mistakes). #1725 is also without the combined knots. And you can also make the very beautiful puzzle pattern (#4987) with just these two knots!

After making some bracelets with just these two knots I'd go on with the other two, #3 and #16 are easy ones to practice these. #1211 is an easy one, based on stripes, but with some few combined knots, #294 already has some more. After that you can go on with patterns like #212.

Then you should have collected enough practice to go on with every standard pattern on this site.

I won't go by difficulty at all! If you sort by difficulty and look at the very last site (rating 8.x) you can see some of the easier patterns there, at least 5 of them are very basic ones!


And if you've already read all this: don't say that you can't make wider bracelets because they are harder! It's not how wide the bracelet is that makes the difficulty. A 50 string chevron is not harder than a 6 string one.