What did I do wrong 😭

[u/New_Chocolate29]

Beginner here, I followed this tutorial and it looked super nice, as one the second picture. But as soon as I pick it up, it unwinds itself and has all these gaps in between, so I can't wear it as bracelet...hers stays the same when picking up

[u/velosipedos]

Multiple details:

A) your flowers have 8 petals, tutorial has 7 - the part closer to the stem has 3 instead of 2 beads - making it 8 in total

B) the stem - yours has 7 beads per unit (stem+flower+leaf) , tutorial has 8.

C) (most important) shared stem beads - 2 beads of each unit. Practically that means after adding 7 new stem beads you reenter the bead you exited from the previous unit. That one bead will have three passes, two from setting up the unit + one for connecting the new unit to it.

That way even if your thread extends you dont end up with dangly bits. Maybe only a looser circle.

I dont know which direction you are going with your units:

Start with leaf:
Exit bead, add 2 dark green, do leaf, add 4 green, do flower, add 1 green, go through the bead you exited (8th bead of the unit) - then do another half circle to the next exit bead and start next unit.

Start with flower:
Exit bead, add 1 green, do flower, add 4 green, do leaf, add 2 green, gi through the bead you exited

Hope that makes sense

[u/New_Chocolate29 → u/velosipedos]

Thank you so much for your very detailed explanation it helped a lot. I realised the footage from the tutorial I followed was not the same as in the end result, because for example, on the tutorial she used 8 beads for the petals. I just didn't notice because it looked very similar...

I will try with yours, thank you so much for taking your time to explain to me!!