Wondering what to do with your bits and pieces of yarn? Have a few mini skeins that need a project? A braided bracelet cuff is the answer! Whether you use those mini skeins or just throw some yarn in a pile, this stash busting recipe makes bracelets customized to fit your wrist. It is intended as an average fit with a small amount of ease on your wrist.

Pattern is 4 pages.

Skills Required:

• Knitting with slipped stitches
• Knitting buttonholes
• Braiding
• Blocking

Size note: Each of the three bands in the cuff is 1” (2.5 cm) wide. Braiding the bands narrows the overall cuff width to 2.5” (6.5 cm) wide. The button bands overlap, reducing the finished circumference by 1/2”/1.25 cm from the desired length

Other Tools:

• Locking stitch holders (2) or Flox knitting tools (2)
• Jeweler’s scale (a scale that can measure to a tenth of a gram - optional)
• T-pins (to anchor cuff while braiding the bands) and blocking pad (or pillow)
• ½”/12 mm buttons (3)
• Tapestry needle (to weave in ends)
• Sewing needle (to sew on buttons)

Yarn: 30-50 yards/27-46 meters of a fingering weight yarn that knits up to 7-7.5 sts/inch. Roughly 8 to 14 grams of yarn.

The yarn for each band weighs between 2.0 grams and 4.5 grams, depending on the size knit. You will need a little extra for the button bands at the ends (approx. 1.5 grams)

Shown in:
Koigu ‘Painter’s Palette Premium Merino (KPPPM)’, (100% Merino; 175 yards/160 meters; 50 grams/1.76 oz per skein).

For the multicoloured cuff with the brown button band the finished size is 8.75”/22 cm long by 2.5”/6.5 cm wide and the weight without buttons was 12 grams.

The yarn for each of the bands weighed approx. 3.5 grams and the buttons bands weighed approx. 1.5 grams.

To use up small scraps of yarn, use the Russian Join method for joining the yarn prior to knitting the bands.