When I was little and my grandmother lived at home, I perfectly remember spending hours talking to her while her hands moved quickly knitting. She crocheted without her hands stopping, while I dropped the thread she needed and chattered jumping from one topic to another.
Crochet, which is now more fashionable than ever with half-time garments like these crochet jackets or being part of festival looksalways reminds me of her, her smell and the lavender candies she carried in her pockets, and although I was never especially good at crocheting like her and my mother, I am capable of doing a few first steps with crochet, especially if it’s something easy like this crochet bracelet made with buttons.
to do this crochet bracelet We only need thread -other than the one you use to sew the buttons or socks, one of a thicker thickness such as this acrylic yarn which is used for crochet-, some buttons and a crochet hook. Depending on the thickness of the thread and the button, this is how the needle should be. If you doubt, you have several options in a pack of crochet hooks.
Yarn Ball of 100% Acrylic for DIY and Crochet, Spring-Summer Season (Water Green Color 100g, approx. 250 meters)
Totofy Crochet Hooks, 14 PCS Crochet Hooks Kit Accessories with Bag Crochet Kit Set, Ergonomic Soft Grip Handles
How to make a crochet bracelet with buttons
Once we have the materials it is time to get down to work. I assure you that it is easier than it seems. We start by inserting the needle into the button hole, catching the thread with the needle and pulling it out through the hole. The thread will have a “u” shape, like a horseshoe that goes in and out through the same hole.
With that “u” that makes the thread we will make two low points that will be glued to the first hole of the button. To make a low point, you just have to insert the needle in the “u”, take more thread outside the button and take it out through that “u”. The point stays tight and we have the same shape again. We repeat the operation. We now have two closed points over the first hole. With the next hole we do the same mechanics. We take out the thread through the hole and we make two low points that hook with the previous ones. Four in all.
Once achieved, we continue knitting, this time a chain and no button in between, just thread. A simple point to give space and be able to insert the next button. Same mechanics as before: two single crochets in the first hole and two more in the second, to make a chain stitch afterwards.
We repeat the operation with as many buttons as long as we want the bracelet to be, always making a chain stitch between button and button. Once the length is ready, we are going to close it. It’s time to make chain stitches, about 8 (they can be more if your buttons are bigger). When we have the chain ready, we get into the free hole of that button, as with the previous points, and we make two single crochets in that hole, and two more in the next one, thus leaving the chain outside and in the shape of a buttonholeand in this last button, with all the holes covered.
It’s time to turn around and fill in the rest of the holes, and since we don’t want to complicate things, we’ll do the same as before: two single crochets per hole (we still have two free stitches on each button), and between button and button, a chain stitch.
We have reached the other end of the bracelet, where we started. We have all the holes filled from that first button and it’s time to close it. We make four more chain stitches that we hook with the first stitch what we did at the beginning. Don’t worry, it’s just as if we covered the button with the thread. We could leave it as it is and we would have a very cute bracelet, but we are going to give it a little more shape with a few more stitches.
The most complicated part comes now, in which we will have to do three chain stitches followed by two treble crochets, which is nothing more than a stitch in the chain before where the needle is. We put in the fifth point instead of the one that would correspond. Those chain stitches that we left free are the first stitch. In this way, the point instead of growing horizontally is as if it were growing vertically.
We continue with two chain stitches and a single crochet that we hook in the chain point between the button we are on and the next one. That point that we told you was important to have. Now we repeat two chain stitches and three double crochets, and again two chain stitches and one single crochet that we hook into the chain stitch that is between the buttons.
We repeat these movements until we reach the end of the buttons, thus leaving one full side and the other half. And we are not one to leave things half done, so when we got to the “buttonhole” we had made with thread, we reinforced it with another eight single crochets, this time over the chain stitches that already existed.
Touch the other side, and we’ll repeat the exact same steps: two chain stitches and three double crochets on each button, followed by two chain stitches and one single crochet that we hook into the chain stitch between the buttons. So with each button until you reach the end and close at the last point.
On the side that does not have a buttonhole, we sew a button with the same thread (normal and ordinary needle, from the button sewing one), right on the edge of the bracelet. And voila, bracelet ready. Ok, I know you’re going to tell me that it’s difficult, but if you see it, it won’t be so hard, so I’ll leave the video here:
Now all that remains is for nostalgia to take over you and join the knitting trend, which is as millennial as the pottery, one of the most fashionable hobbies. And if you see that it is not your thing, you can always pull HBO Max and put on a series, because we are not going to judge anyone here.
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