Starts July 1st!!

Welcome to the Leaky Cauldron Craft-Along for July 2008, hosted by your friendly neighborhood Leaky Crafty Witches! This craft is just the thing for a summer camp activity, crafting with kids, or just to pass the time while you sit indoors with the air conditioning. Folks on the winter side of the world can also enjoy something to do while sitting by the fire

The project we will be crafting together is the Hogwarts House Friendship Bracelet by Quietish.

This project will run through to the end of the month. Please feel free to jump in at any point in the Craft-Along to craft this project with us!

July 08 Craft-Along Resources and Threads
Video Walkthrough
Technique and Materials Discussion
Progress
Finished Objects

Supplies
Listed in tutorial
DMC embroidery floss in chosen house's colors
* Gryffindor - Red 815 (MC), Gold 676(CC)
* Hufflepuff - Yellow 973 (MC), Black 310 (CC)
* Ravenclaw (book) - Blue 336 (MC), Bronze 680 (CC)
* Ravenclaw (movie) - Blue 336 (MC), Silver 415 (CC)
* Slytherin - Green 935 (MC), Silver 415(CC)
Safety pin
Also recommended
Scissors
tape (for securing thread to work surface)

Because it is July 1st somewhere in the world, I now declare this Craft-Along officially in progress! Please post your hellos in here, maybe tell a little about what sort of crafts you are into, and get going on your wand!

Please be sure to pop into the other threads (in this Contests & Craft-Alongs forum and linked above) and check out the video walkthrough (also linked above) if you'd like to see how it's done.

Cheers!

Hey all, I'm excited to get going on another craft-along! I hope you all have fun with this one. It's simple and fun, and doesn't take a lot of time at all.

I'm Rosemary and have been crafting since the beginning of.. well, not time, but probably since I have been able to wield scissors anyway. I just got through working up the video walkthrough and hopefully I'll have that up shortly for you.

I look forward to crafting with you all!

WOO-HOO! the craft-along has started!!

I'm Jenn, and I can't wait to get started on this and get to know everyone. Let's get crafting!!

Josée (pronounced Joe-Zay ) and though I'll be recovering from an operation, I'll be sure to join on this one. As I've been making friendship bracelets ever since I was 9, I might go a little overboard on this and do something a lot more complicated, but I'll still get started on the simple stuff while still on medications. Otherwise the final result will be, shall we say, interesting...

Aw, a little medication always makes things fun! ;)

Joining in on the fun! I love making bracelets!!

Welcome Debbie!

I'm joining in, too! I'm making bracelets for Terminus, so I'm just going to add to the pot! Yay!

Ooh excellent! There will be a lot of friending going on at Terminus, methinks!

*pokes head in*

Got room for a freak to play too?

Yes! Come play!

So I'm very late to join but, I'd like to join the craft along, too.
*goes off in search of the tutorial*

It is certainly not too late to join! Glad you have

FYI-- The Video Gallery folks have been super busy so I have temporarily hosted the video walkthrough on my own so you all can see it in the meantime. It is Windows Media, so I don't know what that means for mac users, but hopefully it will be up for good soon!

They have Windows Media Player for Macs. They also have Flip4Mac which plays the .wmv files into Quicktime. But, the link doesn't work for me. It says it's not a movie file.

Yeah there was a server issue. Should be good to go now

Yay, video! Love the green hair.

It's so weird. I don't knot to the left. I knot to the right. I'll have to try it that way to see if there's a difference. I have a bunch of beads too so I'm going to try that as well.

I think as long as you're consistent, it will be fine. Obviously it is.. your pics look great.

Overcast, both knots are the same and they achieve the same result. In fact, when you make more "complicated" bracelets, you need to make both types of knots in order to make motifs like >>>>>>, XXXXX, etc. There's also a third type of knot you need to make, which is one knot from the left and one knot from the right (or vice versa).

The only thing I find when you make all sorts of knots is that you always tend to make one type of knot a little looser than the other. But in the end, you really have to stick your nose two inches from the bracelet to see the difference

The Video Walkthrough is now up on Leaky and is linked properly in the original post Enjoy!

Sorry so I'm late! We're about to head out the door on vacation, so I thought I'd drop in so I don't forget while I'm away.

I made one Ravenclaw following the tutorial and one Gryffindor using four strands and 10 stitches to each stripe. My 10 year old has been making bracelets, too. His first ever was red, white and blue because we started on the 4th of July.

Here are some photos... I promised not to show his face because he's wearing his pjs. We pinned his bracelet to a bandana so it wouldn't stretch out his pjs.

The boy working on his bracelet
just a few bracelets

Thanks for the great, tut, quietish!

Hi Jen! I'm glad you all enjoyed them Have a great vacay!

Quietish, that was a good video. It helped explain what knot you were using.
I was inspired to make a bracelet. I found in the UK that Woollies has a pack of 12 embroidery threads of different colours for £2.49. Bargain!
So I set about making my first bracelet, in Gryffindor colours. My children soon spotted what I was doing and wanted to join in.
I put 4 repeats in my bracelet which made it too long for a bracelet. So my daughter has claimed this as a necklace. She did a bracelet with just 2 repeats in yellow with pink as the contrasting colour. She struggled a bit with this. Mainly because when she tied the knot she was holding the single thread tight instead of the other threads. But she managed to do it with help.
My son on the other hand, made a bracelet in about half an hour. He used 3 colours, purple as the main colour, orange as the contrasting colour and then the three knots between the contrasting colour he did in green. It worked out well, but he was getting short of purple towards the end. We used 4 foot lengths of thread for this and found that the orange and green had 2 feet left over. So he is doing another one identical to give to his teacher!
I don't have a digital camera but I will try and see if I can scan them to show you.

Those sound great, Apple!

I sure hope you can get them scanned - I'd love to see them!

Thanks Apple!! It makes me happy to hear how your children enjoyed the crafting as well

Ok everyone, just a couple of more days left in July. Is anyone still out there making bracelets? I won't be quitting with the end of the craft-along, myself.

Yes I am still making bracelets although not progressing too well because of other stuff. But, I do intend to make more bracelets and improve on my spiraling knots so I'll still be knotting my way thru the summer