Will this work?

[astaciamorrigen]

A member of a craft group I'm in recently posed the following question:

Hi

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[ginny_toxic]

I made those in 5th grade!

I think at least. I don't have any photos or anything on hand to make sample photos, but I took a pen, made a knot, and then wrapped it, while tucking it under the string itself as I went around. Almost making a knot each wrap?

God, brb I'm gonna try and draw something up to explain...

[ginny_toxic]

[astaciamorrigen]

That's how my Mom any I used to make covered clothes hangers. :)

I'm thinking though what she's looking for is closer to weaving with the embroidery floss, which is why I was thinking she would need to attach long vertical strands before wrapping it with the other color.

Something like this:

[ginny_toxic]

yeah that might make more sense if you actually want names to show up. plus my way has a knot that kind of wraps around the whole thing for artisticyness.

[heatherglenn]

I used to have a booklet that showed how to do this. Yes, you'll need several strands that run the legnth of the pen in a contrasting color. Problem is, I totally can't remember how to attach them. The booklet showed a way that didn't use glue. Anyway, the contrasting colors were attached at one end, and loose at the other while you were working - making it easier to "weave" the names. (you lift up the ones you want to show, and then wrap under it.)

I think they were called friendship pens or something like that.

[astaciamorrigen]

Thank you. I thought I was on the right track. :)

[11_toed_wonder]

We used to use a small bit of masking tape; I can't recall if was just covered up at the end, or if you take it off and let the main color wrap hold everything down.

[emmala]

i saw this being done around plastic in poland once and it's a weaving thing. i found this pattern with knots from a quick google search i wonder if you could adopt it? http://www.geocities.com/hbernb3/
if you want the weave around plastic look i would see if you can find one a local shop and try and figure out how it works. i know you can usually buy them for not to much on the street in new york and craft stores often have them.

Freundschaftsbänder?!

[veryprecisely]

Is this what you're looking for?

Making those yourself was really popular here (Central Europe) back when I was.. uhh.. 8? 10? (Though maybe they're still/always popular with a certain age group..)

[veryprecisely]

Whoops, I only just realised this post is actually.. almost half a year old! :P

[astaciamorrigen]

LOL

Not quite what I was looking for. I used to make friendship bracelets and they've become popular here again recently.

But I was looking for a way to weave a pattern around a pen. :)