DIY simple unique friendship bands.

Hello! Friends!! How are you? First of all, Happy Friendship Day!!

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A friend is an important part of our life. They are heartbeats of our life. We really can't enjoy the life without friends. Today is the special day, it is a friendship day. We have types of friends in our circle. I love to celebrate a friendship day. On every friendship day, we all friends meet and enjoy the whole day with food and chitchat. Also, we tie a band to show that we are the best friends forever. I always try that my friendship band should be different that others, so my friends can remember me. It is easy to buy a friendship band from the market. But best friends deserve a unique, creative and handmade band.
I feeling very happy to share friendship bands made by me.

This is the first friendship band with pearls.

Cut the wool in 3 pieces. Fold the in the center. tie them together with a knot. You will get 6 pieces together. Now use a clip pad to hold the wool pieces. Make 3 parts of wool and wave them as shown in image 1 for about 3 inches.
Take a needle with small thread and tie it in the center of wool. Add 9 pearls in the wool with the help of the needle. Add pearls in all 3 pieces of wool.
Continue the same type of waving but now start adding a pearl for every step.
Wave the pieces of pearls till you get 5 inches long design. After that again wave without pearls for three inches and make a knot at the end.

Our friendship band with pearls is ready!

Now we will make a friendship band with quilling paper strips. We need quilling paper strips, a pair of scissors, gum and a thread.

We need 6 different colors paper strips. Arrange the paper strips as shown in the image 1.
Now take another 3 strips and wave them like a mat with first 3 paper strips as shown in image 2. You can paste them together so that it will make next steps easy for us.
In image 3 look at the pink strip. In same way fold the strip and wave with the brown strip like a mat.
Similarly in image 4 look at the green strip. Fold it and wave like a mat.
Continue waving and complete the 5 inches piece.
Now stick the ends and cut the remaining strips.
Make a fold at the both ends.
In the waving pattern, make a space for the thread to insert. Add the thread to tie the friendship band.

The friendship band with quilling paper strips is ready to tie!

Now it is a turn for a simple wool friendship band.

Take the 8 pieces of wool. Make a knot and divide them into 4 groups.
Now take the first group of 2 pieces and make a knot as shown in image 2
Tie a knot in the same type with other 2 groups. Take care that the position of a knot in slanting position. Now after making the knot with the first group the second group will come in the first position. Repeat the same step with it. Wave the complete friendship band till 10 inches. Make a knot at the end holding all pieces of wool.

The woolen friendship band is done!

Now it is the best example of best out of waste. Also need a pair of scissors.

Take an empty packet of milk powder or salt or anything else which is silver colored coating inside.
Make folds of 2 cm on the whole packet.
Cut the pieces about the size of 2cm X 8 cm. The ratio of the size should be 1:4.
Take a piece from the cutouts of a packet.
Make a horizontal fold in a center.
Now make a vertical fold in a center. Fold all the pieces in the same way.
Now take 2 pieces. Closed sides of the pieces should be on the same side.
As shown in image 8, insert the one piece inside the other piece. At upper red arrow take care to keep space similar to the thickness of piece, because we will add another piece there. Now at lower red arrow make a diagonal fold as shown in the image.
Fold the diagonally folded piece again.
Repeat these 2 folds on another side also and stick them with a stick tape near the red arrow in image 10
Now insert the third piece.
Make a diagonal fold as we did for the first piece.
Fold the diagonally folded part of the second piece again.
As shown in image 14 near the red arrow, there is a gap. Insert the end of folded pieces there.
Now insert the fourth piece and repeat the folding steps.
Continue the adding and folding process. I used 24 pieces to make a medium size a friendship band.
Now we will close the ends to make a circle. You remember the first end we stick with cello tape? Insert this ends in the last piece gap.
Make a diagonal fold for it.
Make another fold as shown in the image 19.
Insert the folded piece in the gap near the red arrow. Repeat the folds for insider part also.