Share your funny/embarassing beginner kandi kid stories lol

Valen_ 1/7/2022 05:33 pm 1447

I used to not know how to measure the size of my wrist so all my singles had this ugly gap in the back where there were just no beads cos they were too small. Same thing with peyotes, all the beads would be really spread out in the back and it would look so bad omg. Thank Bingus I figured out how many beads around my wrist was so I don't run into that problem anymore lol

Before I learned how to make a multistitch cuff, I thought a peyote stitch was the only way to make a cuff so I tried using a multistitch pattern on here using a peyote stitch lmao Then I took a look at Crumpet's cuff tutorial and was like "ahh... that makes much more sense now"

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  • CoNN13Killz
Jan 13, 2022 5:55 am

@YUM_CYANIDE: its like the process to join the kandi kids lol

Jan 13, 2022 5:40 am

for my first singles i didnt even use elastic, i used cloth braiding cord so they werent stretchy AT ALL and i had to like push the bracelet down my hand in order to get it on my wrist shock

also it took me forever to make my first ladder cuff bc i kept moving the string in the wrong direction (so like both ends of the string were coming out of the same side instead of one end on one side like it should be)

Jan 13, 2022 4:56 am

I didn’t buy my own beads for the first 2 years, I’ve just been using these old kandi beads from like the 90s that my sister left at the house when she moved out

(some of them even glowed in the dark!!!

  • bugz_doez_kandi
Jan 13, 2022 4:40 am

I made my first single with not-stretchy sting and didn't even bother to cut off the ends.


for my first cuff, i made it with the same, fabric, no stretch string. it was like 2 rows tall it fit terribly.


also i thought my wrist size was 12 beads. (its about 30-ish because i like my kandi to be a bit bigger)

Jan 13, 2022 4:20 am

used to think my wrist was like 7 beads around xx (its 34)

  • Kand1_k1d_ka1
Jan 12, 2022 11:09 pm

tried making a cuff but kept failing like 10 times

Jan 12, 2022 10:09 pm

@CoNN13Killz: I just found out yesterday how to read them so I wouldn't worry

Jan 12, 2022 10:00 pm

my first single took 8 hours to tie off bc my string was so shit (don't make fun of me I was so dumb)

I also spelt the word strawberry wrong on a single and didn't realize it for 2 days.

Jan 12, 2022 7:25 pm

@CoNN13Killz: havent we all /hj

  • CoNN13Killz
Jan 12, 2022 6:31 pm

i ate a bead.