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This site is owned and run by Kirsty aka Crumpet, a dual British/American citizen now living in Lytham St. Annes - a seaside town in England. I'm 24, female, a graduate of UC San Diego, and am currently working full-time as a graphic designer/web developer/internet marketing coordinator. I'm a semi-retired raver, only partying occasionally, and I am a sober raver; I don't even drink. I designed this website and coded it by myself. My website is hosted by Gigenet on a dedicated server, and I make my kandi patterns using BeadTool . The ads on this site are necessary to pay for the server and some site software, which total hundreds of dollars a month.

Special thanks to MetalJesus for giving me the idea to make the suggestions on a public page, and create an upload form :)
This is Crumpet speaking: Up until August 2010, I was the only person who created patterns for the site and did any moderating. But now there are three people who help with the site - who act as moderators and pattern makers. You can learn about them below :)

About Joseph

Heylo [insert your name here~] As of July 21, 2011, I'm an official Kandi Patterns moderator. I'm twelve years old going on thirteen in August. My kandi making started late 2010, so in the second quarter of my seventh grade year. My girlfriend (who's my ex now,) gave me a single with the word "Owl City" on it and that day my friend uploaded a picture on MySpace with him wearing a bunch of bracelets. In the comments, people just kept saying "Kandies," so I looked it up and the rest was history. I started uploading patterns in January (they were really bad so only some got accepted.) [x My first pattern I ever made was a small one that said 'Merry Christmas.' Now, half a year later, I'm a moderator and I help convert patterns along with Crumpet. I love kandipatterns.com and I plan on sticking around for a long time. Bye, [insert your name here!]

About Monarch

Hello, my name is Brandy, or what you more than likely know me as: Monarch. I live in Seattle, Washington and am currently attending college to become a Pastry Chef. I have been raving since I was 17, which was when I started wearing kandi and soon became obsessed with it. I found this website a while ago when I was searching online for different styles of cuffs and was amazed by the amount of effort put into it. I always followed the new patterns being posted and would read suggestions always wondering if I could ever do one. I designed my first cuff when someone here asked for an octopus pattern, and have been doing them ever since (though I am much more of a word rather than picture cuff designer as you may or may not have noticed). <-- this girl also sucks at writing about herself XD

About Kyoko

Hmm about me lolz i'm never good at this kinda stuff. Um, My name is Taylor aka Kyoko, I'm 17, female, and I currently live in Altus, Oklahoma. I'm hoping to be a graphic designer when I graduate from high school and college. I got started in making kandi patterns because my boyfriend went on the website and saw a bracelet that he wanted and I said I would try to make it, well I did a really good job and I started making more and more then I decided I wanted to make my own patterns. My very first pattern I ever made was of Diglett from pokemon.

Wtf is this site about?

If you are a random visitor who's confused about the purpose of this site, let me explain ^_^ people use these patterns to make large bracelets out of pony beads like the one below:


Some of the patterns are designed for really large bracelets that take up most of a person's forearm:



Yes, that bracelet is completely ridiculous. Who would wear such a thing, right? Kandi kids would! Kandi kids are typically ravers (but not always) who make and trade brightly colored bracelets and then wear them, normally to rave parties but sometimes out in the real world. The bracelets are called kandi, hence the name "kandi kids." Here is a photo of me and some friends as an example of kandi kids:

kandi kids

Photo credit: Zulu - Plurlife photographer

Kandi can also be spelled candy, kandy, kandie, or kande, and to most kandi kids kandi bracelets are a token of friendship and a fashion statement. To some they represent the ideal of PLUR, which stands for peace, love, unity, respect - the raver's crede. When kandi first began, most kandi kids only made single stranded bracelets and necklaces. In recent years, kandi cuffs have become a lot more popular, with the two most popular cuff types being multi stitch cuffs and 3D cuffs. This website provides patterns for the multi stitch cuffs.

Here's a photo of almost all my kandi that I've received from trades :)



Also, contrary to popular belief these bracelets do not represent drugs, they aren't drugs (some people are stupid enough to think that), people do not put LSD on them, nor does wearing these bracelets mean that the person takes or sells drugs.  Just had to clear that up :p

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  Crumpet says:
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February 3, 2012 at 05:05 am
Hmm... do you really listen to techno, or are you incorrectly using it as a general term for electronic music? If it's the latter, try writing genres that you actually do like/listen to happy or are you only looking for bracelets that can be made in pairs? #29328


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February 3, 2012 at 01:56 am
Hey. Im new to all this. Im trying to make Kandi braclets. Ive already made 2, one says "rave" and the other one "girl" so together itll make "rave-girl" on different wrists. The other two is "tekno" (i know its spelled wrong but currently limited on beads) and "baby" And im gonna make another pair with "shufflin" but i dont know what the other should be. If you guys got sudgestions please let me know. (as i said im new to this. EVERY BIT from the shuffling, to the kandi making, not the techno tho, i love me some techno) So help?? be apreciated! #29325


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January 31, 2012 at 10:03 am
Ciara, most of the patterns on this site are designed to be used with plastic pony beads (6x9mm size), but some are also designed for perler beads and smaller pony beads. How much the beads costs depends on how many you buy and where you get them from. When I used to buy them online, I paid a few dollars for 500 beads in one color. #29124


Ciara spivey says:
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January 31, 2012 at 09:58 am
Hey i just happened to find this site and i think that everything ya'll are doing is amazing and i would really like to learn how to make this kandi. About how much money do you spend on the beads, and what type of beads do you have to use? love struck #29123


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January 30, 2012 at 07:35 am
We're okay for moderators right now because I've started automating some of the approvals, but I will remember you for the next time things start to get crazy. Submitted patterns aren't separated in the admin panel though, so you would have to moderate all types of patterns. And as Monarch said, moderators moderate everything - comments, patterns, pictures happy #29065



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