Yarn Dreads or Braids

Purchase synthetic hair to make your dread locks or braids and you’ll often find that you’re limited to the colors you can find, and the hair ends up costing a good bit of money. Make the dreads or braids from yarn, though, and the sky’s the limit. You can have any color you want, plus you’ll save a lot of money over synthetic hair. It’s really easy to turn yarn into colorful dreads or braids, or into hair pieces with basic colors, like brown, black, or blonde.

Find something you can use to wrap the yarn around. This can be a board with a nail at each end, or even a flat piece of cardboard. Wrap the yarn around and around to create the length and girth you want. It’s a good idea to make the yarn a little longer than you want since you’ll lose a couple of inches when you braid it.

Tie a small piece of yarn around one end of the loop of yarn; tie it tightly in a knot. Cut each yarn piece in half at the opposite fold. Then, slide one end of the small yarn piece through a hair tie, and tie it into a knot. The hair tie will allow you a way to connect the finished braids or dreads to your own hair.

Take several strands of the yarn in one hand and twist them to the left, until you’ve twisted them all the way, from one end to the other. If you take a lot of yarn strands, you’ll make a large braid; a few strands makes a much smaller braid. Take several more strands and do the same thing, twisting it to the left. Make each “braid”, by twisting it to the left and, when they’re all done that way, you can “braid” two of these ropes together. To do that, hold two of them together, and twist them to the right. Do this until the two are twisted together, from one end to the other. Wrap a rubber band around the end and trim the yarn to be even and straight.

Add more and more braids by following the same steps as above. Just wrap some more yarn around the cardboard or other object, tie and clip it, then tie it onto the same hair tie as the first braid set is. After all the braids are attached you can just tie the hair tie onto your own hair. Make just one hair tie full of dreads or braids, or make several hair ties, and put them all over your head. They’re fun to make and enjoyable to wear.


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