Finished 12/21/2025! Made this as a Christmas gift for my mom, using exclusively the threads that she bought me. They aren't the best quality (much too slippery to hold a knot well) and the pack had a lot of colors but only one skein of each (I'm out of this blue now except for what scraps are left). I used @crescendos triangle start method again to give me a place to put the snaps. But my mom asked me to put a second pair of snaps immediately after trying it on ๐
This bracelet gave me such a hassle! But it taught me a lot about persistence and material literacy. I'm very glad to be done with it. The design just wouldn't stick in my head and I had to refer back to the pattern constantly. When I first looked at the pattern I thought that the red fb/bf knots in rows 6-10 leading to the pompom seemed like a lot, but when you're tying it, it looks fine. I don't think there's even a way to make that part shorter because it needs to be exactly that length to put the white pompom in the correct spot.
If you're making a typical bracelet with ties at the ends, whatever way you measure your strings will be fine. I just wanted to note that the white string runs out first, probably because of all the traveling it has to do to reach the hem of the hat and the pompom at the end. I was left with just over a palm's length by the time I was done, while my other strings were all a bit over 1ft. Also, I'd recommend slanting the bracelet towards the right when you clip it to start tying, if you have it straight all the blue forward knots will pull it to the left. That's what I did and it helped my bracelet stay straight. Another thing that probably helped was knotting row by row going back and forth. I started from left to right on row 1, then from right to left on row 2, and so on.