DIY - lilou

Welcome to the recently announced DIY. I will show you how to make a lilou bracelet. 

When I am thinking about this type of bracelets, I am astonished by their phenomenon. It's unbelievable that people are willing to pay tens or hundreds of PLN for such a small thing. Especially that the market price of such a bracelet is unrelated to the cost of making it.

Therefore, I will present how to make your own bracelet of this type. In such a way we gain our own, unique style and much lower price! :)

We will need: 

- String - about 40cm. I used cotton waxed string, 2mm in diameter. 

- Glue (universal).

- Scissors. 

- A pendant - a motive you like. I chose glasses :). 

- A circlet - to fix the pendant. 

 

Let's start!
 

1. Fix the circlet to the pendant. Put in on the string at the half of its length.
 

 
2. Make an ordinary knot on the string (just as you would tie your shoes). The knot needs to have the circlet with the pendant inside. Don't draw the knot too much so that you can move it later (in case when it is not at the half of the bracelet at the end). 

3. Arrange the string in a circle with overlapping ends. 

 4. Take one of ends and wrap it around the circle (1). Then put the end through the whole wrap starting at the beginning (2). Below the version presented on strings having distinct colours.

5. Draw the string. Here's how our know looks like on one side and the other side.
 

6. Tie an identical knot on the other end. Now we see whether our pendant is in the middle of the bracelet. If not, we can now move it. If the knot is at the good place, draw it and cut the endings near the little knots adjusting the length of the bracelet.

 7. We can secure the ending of the string with the glue, but it is not necessary. It's ready :)