How To Make A Magic Braid Leather Bracelet

This fun magic braid leather bracelet is made from a continuous piece of leather. How can you braid a continuous piece of leather? It’s magic!

Have you ever seen a magic bracelet? It’s a single piece of leather that has been braided.

It looks cool. And it’s mind boggling.

How do you braid one single piece?

It’s a simple trick that produces a really cool effect.

Supplies

Cricut Maker
Cricut Deep-Point Blade
Bronze Metallic Cricut Leather
Hitch Fastener
Magic Braid Bracelet Cut File

This really needs to be made out of actual leather, not the Cricut faux leather because that is too thin.

The cut file has two sizes, a longer one for larger wrists, and a shorter one for smaller wrists.

As you can see in the cut file, it’s a single piece of leather with two long slits.

This gives you the three pieces that you need to braid.

How to make a magic braid bracelet

Add your hitch fastener to the squared end of the bracelet.

The hole in rounded end is for the hitch to go through to fasten to the bracelet.

You want the hitch to be on the right side of the leather.

Once you have it nice and secure your are ready to start braiding.

How to do the magic braid

To get started you want to hold the bracelet up and down.

Take the bottom of the bracelet and flip the bottom of the bracelet and flip it through the right slit, front to back. Pull it back down to the bottom.

Then, starting with the right strip, braid.

The rhythm is 1, 2, 3, flip.

1. Right over left.
2. Left over right.
3. Right over left.
4. Flip the bottom through the left slit, front to back.

Continue braiding.

1. Left over right
2. Right over left.
3. Left over right.
4. Flip the bottom through the right slit, front to back.

Repeat from the start of the braid.

Once you do the final flip, simply even the braid out across the length of the bracelet.

And that’s it. See? Simple!

If you are more of a visual learner I have made the tutorial video below.

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