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Ocean waves alpha bracelet pattern

Rolling bands of deep blue, turquoise and pale aqua with white foam between them, 14 knots wide; the 48-row chart is about 9.6 cm long.

Preview of the finished ocean waves alpha bracelet pattern
How it looks finished (rendered from the chart)
Pattern details
Size14 × 48 knots
Colours4 · DMC
Total knots672
DifficultyEasy (2/5)
Finished size0.7 × 3.8 in (1.8 × 9.6 cm)
Strings14 base strings + 4 colours
LicenceCC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit

Materials

ColourCodeNameKnotsShareAmount
3842Wedgewood Vry Dk16825%168 knots · ~2.7 m
B5200Snow White16825%168 knots · ~2.7 m
3846Turquoise Bright Light16825%168 knots · ~2.7 m
747Peacock Blue Vy Lt16825%168 knots · ~2.7 m

About this design

This bracelet is a little slice of sea: curling wave crests that roll along the band in four tones. DMC 3842 Wedgewood Very Dark gives the deep water, 3846 Turquoise Bright Light the sunlit middle, 747 Peacock Blue Very Light the shallows and B5200 Snow White the foam. Each colour is used for exactly the same number of knots, so the stripes stay balanced and no single shade dominates. It makes a good holiday souvenir to knot on a beach towel or in the car on the way there.

How to work it

You need 14 base strings and four working strings, one per colour. With four bobbins on the go, keep them in the same order on your board, deep to pale, so you can grab the right one without looking. The waves are built from curved crests that overlap the band below, and each colour reaches across most of the width at its widest point. That means long runs of one colour followed by quick changes at the curl of the crest, where most miscounts happen. The 12-row repeat is easy to recognise once you have knotted it once.

Length and finishing

At roughly 2 mm per row the 48-row chart comes to about 9.6 cm, four full repeats. Seven repeats (84 rows) make about 17 cm for an adult wrist; six repeats suit a child. Finish with turquoise ties, or knot a short strip and thread a small shell bead onto each tail.

Colour chart for ocean waves alpha bracelet pattern with a bold line every 5
Colour chart preview. The PDF adds symbols, row and column numbers and the full key.

Colour plan

DMC 3842 Wedgewood Vry Dk does the most work, 25% of the 672 knots, followed by DMC B5200 Snow White at 25%. Every colour is used at least 168 times, so there are no tiny one-off details to hunt for. Every square of the grid is filled.

Working notes

It is 48 knot rows of 14 knots; the busiest row changes colour 4 times. No square stands alone in its colour.

Anchor equivalents

The nearest Anchor colour for each DMC colour in this pattern, measured as ΔE 2000: up to 3 is very close, up to 6 close, up to 10 approximate.

DMCAnchor
3842 1068 ΔE 4.5 · close
B5200 1 ΔE 0.0 · very close
3846 185 ΔE 14.1 · no good match
747 158 ΔE 4.1 · close

Row by row

All 48 rows written out, row 1 at the top, where you start knotting
  • Row 1 (left to right, forward knots): 8 3842, 6 B5200
  • Row 2 (right to left, backward knots): 1 3842, 4 B5200, 3 3842, 4 3846, 2 3842
  • Row 3 (left to right, forward knots): 1 3842, 6 3846, 7 3842
  • Row 4 (right to left, backward knots): 6 3842, 8 3846
  • Row 5 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3846, 4 747, 3 3846, 4 3842, 1 3846
  • Row 6 (right to left, backward knots): 7 3846, 6 747, 1 3846
  • Row 7 (left to right, forward knots): 8 747, 6 3846
  • Row 8 (right to left, backward knots): 1 747, 4 3846, 3 747, 4 B5200, 2 747
  • Row 9 (left to right, forward knots): 1 747, 6 B5200, 7 747
  • Row 10 (right to left, backward knots): 6 747, 8 B5200
  • Row 11 (left to right, forward knots): 2 B5200, 4 3842, 3 B5200, 4 747, 1 B5200
  • Row 12 (right to left, backward knots): 7 B5200, 6 3842, 1 B5200
  • Row 13 (left to right, forward knots): 8 3842, 6 B5200
  • Row 14 (right to left, backward knots): 1 3842, 4 B5200, 3 3842, 4 3846, 2 3842
  • Row 15 (left to right, forward knots): 1 3842, 6 3846, 7 3842
  • Row 16 (right to left, backward knots): 6 3842, 8 3846
  • Row 17 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3846, 4 747, 3 3846, 4 3842, 1 3846
  • Row 18 (right to left, backward knots): 7 3846, 6 747, 1 3846
  • Row 19 (left to right, forward knots): 8 747, 6 3846
  • Row 20 (right to left, backward knots): 1 747, 4 3846, 3 747, 4 B5200, 2 747
  • Row 21 (left to right, forward knots): 1 747, 6 B5200, 7 747
  • Row 22 (right to left, backward knots): 6 747, 8 B5200
  • Row 23 (left to right, forward knots): 2 B5200, 4 3842, 3 B5200, 4 747, 1 B5200
  • Row 24 (right to left, backward knots): 7 B5200, 6 3842, 1 B5200
  • Row 25 (left to right, forward knots): 8 3842, 6 B5200
  • Row 26 (right to left, backward knots): 1 3842, 4 B5200, 3 3842, 4 3846, 2 3842
  • Row 27 (left to right, forward knots): 1 3842, 6 3846, 7 3842
  • Row 28 (right to left, backward knots): 6 3842, 8 3846
  • Row 29 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3846, 4 747, 3 3846, 4 3842, 1 3846
  • Row 30 (right to left, backward knots): 7 3846, 6 747, 1 3846
  • Row 31 (left to right, forward knots): 8 747, 6 3846
  • Row 32 (right to left, backward knots): 1 747, 4 3846, 3 747, 4 B5200, 2 747
  • Row 33 (left to right, forward knots): 1 747, 6 B5200, 7 747
  • Row 34 (right to left, backward knots): 6 747, 8 B5200
  • Row 35 (left to right, forward knots): 2 B5200, 4 3842, 3 B5200, 4 747, 1 B5200
  • Row 36 (right to left, backward knots): 7 B5200, 6 3842, 1 B5200
  • Row 37 (left to right, forward knots): 8 3842, 6 B5200
  • Row 38 (right to left, backward knots): 1 3842, 4 B5200, 3 3842, 4 3846, 2 3842
  • Row 39 (left to right, forward knots): 1 3842, 6 3846, 7 3842
  • Row 40 (right to left, backward knots): 6 3842, 8 3846
  • Row 41 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3846, 4 747, 3 3846, 4 3842, 1 3846
  • Row 42 (right to left, backward knots): 7 3846, 6 747, 1 3846
  • Row 43 (left to right, forward knots): 8 747, 6 3846
  • Row 44 (right to left, backward knots): 1 747, 4 3846, 3 747, 4 B5200, 2 747
  • Row 45 (left to right, forward knots): 1 747, 6 B5200, 7 747
  • Row 46 (right to left, backward knots): 6 747, 8 B5200
  • Row 47 (left to right, forward knots): 2 B5200, 4 3842, 3 B5200, 4 747, 1 B5200
  • Row 48 (right to left, backward knots): 7 B5200, 6 3842, 1 B5200

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