Thank you for this! I just used this video to make my own handfasting cord made of ribbon, and after the first few weaves it was very easy and straightforward! I used 4 different colors of ribbon and then used thinner gold ribbon for the stripe - it was challenging to keep the thinner ribbon aligned in the center but other than that it worked great and I'm grateful to have found this video!
My wedding is in 18 days and we're doing a handfasting ceremony. I had no idea what to use or how to do it until now. I love this technique. Thank you for uploading.
Me and my Fiance are getting married soon and this is a LIFESAVER. So many different videos of just people saying braid it or just the ceremony itself so im happy to have found this!
I love this. This is way better than some of the videos I found that are "just braid it" or showing how the ceremony takes place. I didn't want to buy a handfasting cord on Etsy because I wanted something more personal that was made with love but also was cheaper than 75$, now I can totally made something personal and beautiful. Blessed be!
Thank you so much! I'm Vietnamese and my fiance is Irish and wanted the handfasting. I'm so lost and I've been researching like crazy and you make it look so easy!
Thank you for this! My fiancé and I are doing a handfasting for our wedding this October. Recently I really have been getting into my Celtic-Druid roots and been centering my craft towards Celtic paganism mixed with Christianity. My fiancé has been practicing Norse paganism mixed with Christianity. We’re finally getting married after 8 years this October. I really wanted to make our cords to put my intention, love, and energy into it. I had our parents, his grandmothers, and my parents for my grandmothers whom passed pick out a color ribbon to make it more personal. I can’t wait to make them!
Thank you so much, my boyfriend and I want a Celtic-Pagan wedding, cause we both are from different heritage, he is from vampiric heritage and I´m from elven heritage (or at least in Spain it´s called in that way) and I want to do de Handfasting Cords by myself to give them more significative magic that I -both- want to be our marriage. I love your Channel, thank u. The spirits might guide you in this life. Gracias amor.
My friend wanted me to make her a handfasting cord for her wedding. Saw this and tried it out in the colors that she wanted (she needs 9ft per her coven), and it's gorgeous!!! Thank you for showing this!
Thank you so much for this video. We are a gay couple and neither of us knows anything about handy work. Still my fiance is Irish and I wanted to incorporate it into our ceremony. He keeps complaining about my left-brain lack of creativity but this video and the one you've linked to makes this a project I'll be able to handle and which will certainly impress him. It's a pity your video hasn't received more likes because you deserve it. Thank you again.
My fella followed your video and created our handfasting cord. Thank you for sharing! And making the tassels wasn't as difficult as we thought it would be. Thanks again!
I just wanted to say thank you for this video! My fiance and I are getting married on Saturday... and we decided last Saturday. 😅 So we had short notice for everything. This was quick and came out beautiful! 💛
Thanks so much for this video. It was easy to follow and so helpful. My daughter wanted custom colors and we waited to long and aren't able to order in time for the ceremony. I was able to watch the video and learn how to do it on my own. THANK YOU!!
Thanks for this! I saw so many like this online and wanted to make my own, but could never figure out how to make it look like that. I made one that was braided, but ended up being dissatisfied with it because it was too short, so I'm gonna try this method instead.
I really enjoyed your tutorial. I LOVED the part in the beginning (around 6:00) when you were talking about the 2 hours you spent doing this you meditated on your relationship. It made me smile.
This is a beautiful project! I love the way you explained everything. I have to make a cord for my daughters wedding this fall and have looked at soooo many different knots and results. THIS is the one I am going to use. Thank You for doing this tutorial!! Wonderful!!
I'm so glad that I found this video! I have been trying to figure out how to make my own handfasting cord and this is perfect! It's so elegant and beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing! My wedding is in December and our wedding colors are Emerald, Violet, and Gold. Thanks again so much for sharing this! It's a HUGE lifesaver for me!
I finished ourselves yesterday, used your tutorial. Also the same colors cause that are also our colours. I don't know if you have Instagram but I can tag you there if I know your name there. Loved making it ! My boyfriend was a bit quilt when he saw it yesterday
when is your ceremony? Mine is June 10, I am trying to make my handfasting rope now instead of buying one. Thanks for leaving the tassel video in the description :)
Hi Serena! Thank you for the video! My fiancee and i are doing a handfasting and when we saw the price if cords decided to make ours so thanks for this and the tassel video. But i wanted to ask about the colored rug in the video, did you make it? If so can you share a video how you did it? Thanks, Erin
Hey Serena, your code is so beautiful. I'm performing a ceremony for my cousin and we are going to do a hand fasting. I'm going to try my hand at making this cord for them. Question, did it tie well? I was a little worried the pieces might bunch up and look odd once tied?
Hey! Great question. Yes, it tied very well. Because it's flat, the cord wrapped nicely around our wrists. We did a figure-eight wrap with one knot to seal the deal, so not quite what I thought when I made this video, but was successful nonetheless. I hope this works well for you!
I am attempting to recreate this for my wedding, though I'm a little short on time. How much ribbon would you say you used for each strand? I bought 100 yards of one color and want to use it for two of the strands and I want to know if I can safely pull off, say...20 yards and have that be enough?
Are you going to be using the cord to do the infinity knot? If so, could you let me know how well it ties? I'm experimenting to see which one will look the best after being tied.
Your cord is beautiful! Are the widths of the ribbons important or does it matter that much? Also when you say craft thread are you talking about embroidery floss?
I don't think the width matters, but I would recommend using equal sizes on both sides. "Craft thread" is what the package said... it was a little bit heftier than embroidery floss. But if that is what you have, use that! It would look just as good.
Also do you know if this technique has a specific name. I'm not having a hand fasting, marriage or anything anytime soon so I would like to be able to write it down in my journal so I can possibly research it a little bit later.
The terms I've seen include the "military braid" and "ribbon lei". I know there's more than one way to make a lei from ribbon though, so this is just one technique.
Thank you for this! I just used this video to make my own handfasting cord made of ribbon, and after the first few weaves it was very easy and straightforward! I used 4 different colors of ribbon and then used thinner gold ribbon for the stripe - it was challenging to keep the thinner ribbon aligned in the center but other than that it worked great and I'm grateful to have found this video!
My wedding is in 18 days and we're doing a handfasting ceremony. I had no idea what to use or how to do it until now. I love this technique. Thank you for uploading.
You're most welcome!
Me and my Fiance are getting married soon and this is a LIFESAVER. So many different videos of just people saying braid it or just the ceremony itself so im happy to have found this!
I love this. This is way better than some of the videos I found that are "just braid it" or showing how the ceremony takes place. I didn't want to buy a handfasting cord on Etsy because I wanted something more personal that was made with love but also was cheaper than 75$, now I can totally made something personal and beautiful. Blessed be!
Thank you so much! I'm Vietnamese and my fiance is Irish and wanted the handfasting. I'm so lost and I've been researching like crazy and you make it look so easy!
Thank you for this! My fiancé and I are doing a handfasting for our wedding this October. Recently I really have been getting into my Celtic-Druid roots and been centering my craft towards Celtic paganism mixed with Christianity. My fiancé has been practicing Norse paganism mixed with Christianity. We’re finally getting married after 8 years this October. I really wanted to make our cords to put my intention, love, and energy into it. I had our parents, his grandmothers, and my parents for my grandmothers whom passed pick out a color ribbon to make it more personal.
I can’t wait to make them!
Thank you so much, my boyfriend and I want a Celtic-Pagan wedding, cause we both are from different heritage, he is from vampiric heritage and I´m from elven heritage (or at least in Spain it´s called in that way) and I want to do de Handfasting Cords by myself to give them more significative magic that I -both- want to be our marriage. I love your Channel, thank u. The spirits might guide you in this life. Gracias amor.
My friend wanted me to make her a handfasting cord for her wedding. Saw this and tried it out in the colors that she wanted (she needs 9ft per her coven), and it's gorgeous!!! Thank you for showing this!
That makes me so happy to hear! 💜 wowza, nine feet! That must have taken her ages!
Thank you for this tutorial
Used it with 3&3, so 6 total ribbons.
Thank you so much for this video. We are a gay couple and neither of us knows anything about handy work.
Still my fiance is Irish and I wanted to incorporate it into our ceremony. He keeps complaining about my left-brain lack of creativity but this video and the one you've linked to makes this a project I'll be able to handle and which will certainly impress him.
It's a pity your video hasn't received more likes because you deserve it. Thank you again.
That is so incredibly sweet, thank you! I hope your cord turns out splendidly. And congratulations!
Thank You! You made making my own cord for my wedding not so intimidating 🥰
My fella followed your video and created our handfasting cord. Thank you for sharing! And making the tassels wasn't as difficult as we thought it would be. Thanks again!
I just wanted to say thank you for this video! My fiance and I are getting married on Saturday... and we decided last Saturday. 😅 So we had short notice for everything. This was quick and came out beautiful! 💛
Omg thank you for this ive just been asked to make one for a friend of my aunts wedding so she could have it blessed and this made it so easy!!
Thank you so much! Blessed be!
Thanks so much for this video. It was easy to follow and so helpful. My daughter wanted custom colors and we waited to long and aren't able to order in time for the ceremony. I was able to watch the video and learn how to do it on my own. THANK YOU!!
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!🙌🏻💜
Thanks for this! I saw so many like this online and wanted to make my own, but could never figure out how to make it look like that. I made one that was braided, but ended up being dissatisfied with it because it was too short, so I'm gonna try this method instead.
I really enjoyed your tutorial. I LOVED the part in the beginning (around 6:00) when you were talking about the 2 hours you spent doing this you meditated on your relationship. It made me smile.
Very grateful for this tutorial. I'm so excited to make our own cords for handfasting xx
This is a beautiful project! I love the way you explained everything. I have to make a cord for my daughters wedding this fall and have looked at soooo many different knots and results. THIS is the one I am going to use. Thank You for doing this tutorial!!
Wonderful!!
I really needed this video thank you so much your cord is so gorgeous
Thank you for posting this! I am going to use this technique for my upcoming wedding!
I'm so glad that I found this video! I have been trying to figure out how to make my own handfasting cord and this is perfect! It's so elegant and beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing! My wedding is in December and our wedding colors are Emerald, Violet, and Gold. Thanks again so much for sharing this! It's a HUGE lifesaver for me!
Delaney Watson what a beyootiful color palette that will be. Congratulations! I'm so happy this will be helpful to you. 💜
Love it 🥰
I am so glad I found your video! I've been thinking about making our cord but didn't know how. Our wedding colors are purple and green as well! 💚💜
I’m making one for my friend’s wedding and you are so helpful and easy to follow! 🖤💚💜
Thank you for this! I was a camp counselor back in the day, the kids used to do this weave with “gimp”, I think it was called the butterfly!
Thank you for the information.. I needed it.. lol.. many blessings
I like your channel. Please keep uploading!
This is so helpful! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing This is perfect
I finished ourselves yesterday, used your tutorial. Also the same colors cause that are also our colours. I don't know if you have Instagram but I can tag you there if I know your name there. Loved making it ! My boyfriend was a bit quilt when he saw it yesterday
THANK YOU!!!!
This is great!! Thank you!! I'm doing mine also
Very beautiful
Congrats On Your Wedding!.....That cord is so pretty :)
just kelly Thank you so much!
Does this knot have a name? Very nice cord you have made.
great, thanks for sharing! And your hair is so amazing :)
Earth Warrior Thank you! That's very kind of you to say.
when is your ceremony? Mine is June 10, I am trying to make my handfasting rope now instead of buying one. Thanks for leaving the tassel video in the description :)
Earth Warrior Hey! You're getting hitched the day after me! Congrats to both of us!
hooray!
Hi Serena! Thank you for the video! My fiancee and i are doing a handfasting and when we saw the price if cords decided to make ours so thanks for this and the tassel video. But i wanted to ask about the colored rug in the video, did you make it? If so can you share a video how you did it? Thanks, Erin
Hey Serena, your code is so beautiful. I'm performing a ceremony for my cousin and we are going to do a hand fasting. I'm going to try my hand at making this cord for them. Question, did it tie well? I was a little worried the pieces might bunch up and look odd once tied?
Hey! Great question. Yes, it tied very well. Because it's flat, the cord wrapped nicely around our wrists. We did a figure-eight wrap with one knot to seal the deal, so not quite what I thought when I made this video, but was successful nonetheless. I hope this works well for you!
What length or ribbon did you use for each strand to get the full 5ish feet? I fear I’ve not bought long enough and I don’t know how to add more.
Can this be done with just three colors? How would I start with only 3 colors? Thanks .
Your cord's lovely. Im looking into making my own for my wedding, could you let me know the widths of each ribbon used?
Hey! Check the description of the video... I put all the materials used and details. :) Congrats!!
Aw silly me 😞 Thanks!
I am attempting to recreate this for my wedding, though I'm a little short on time. How much ribbon would you say you used for each strand? I bought 100 yards of one color and want to use it for two of the strands and I want to know if I can safely pull off, say...20 yards and have that be enough?
this is a rad cord!
Are you going to be using the cord to do the infinity knot? If so, could you let me know how well it ties? I'm experimenting to see which one will look the best after being tied.
Yep! We did the infinity knot and it tied very well. :)
Thank you! I wanted to make these not buy them and this was perfect.
Not sure if I missed it, but is there a name for this knot/braid/tying pattern?
Any of the vids/pages I used to find this technique referred to it as a ribbon lei.
I love your rug! did you make that ?
Thank you! No, I bought it at 5 Below! Best five bucks spent on a rug, haha!
Your cord is beautiful! Are the widths of the ribbons important or does it matter that much? Also when you say craft thread are you talking about embroidery floss?
I don't think the width matters, but I would recommend using equal sizes on both sides. "Craft thread" is what the package said... it was a little bit heftier than embroidery floss. But if that is what you have, use that! It would look just as good.
Now It's So Vivid Okay cool, thanks so much!
Also do you know if this technique has
a specific name. I'm not having a hand fasting, marriage or anything anytime soon so I would like to be able to write it down in my journal so I can possibly research it a little bit later.
The terms I've seen include the "military braid" and "ribbon lei". I know there's more than one way to make a lei from ribbon though, so this is just one technique.
Now It's So Vivid ok thanks so much! Where did you learn how to do this?
I'm getting married in october, how much would you charge to make one for me? I'm not very crafty and this is not one thing I want to mess up
This is literally impossible I wasted my time