About

Hi. My name is Stefan and I'm from Sweden. I started my "macrame career" when I was about 16 or something in middle school. I liked the technique a lot and made mostly friendship bracelets to sell at christmas fairs and stuff. I also made some other macrame creations such as bookmarks and dream carchers.

I made this homepage some years ago (must be like 2006) when I had learnt PHP and started my programming interest. By then, the homepage only contained step-by-step instructions how to make bracelets. But as my programming skills increased, I made the first version of my friendship bracelet pattern generator and it was a great success. I also allowed visitors to upload their own patterns they had generated but a few times it ended up in copyright questions.

The pattern generator was moved to an own site, friendship-bracelet.net, and that site is quite big right now.

In february 2010 I started this website with new festures like more advanced functions for logging in, publishing tutorials and uploading photos.

Right now I'm 22 years old and I do not do macrame anymore. I still program a lot when I have some time over. I am studying the masters program of engineering physics at Umeå University in Sweden so I don't have much time over. Still I get huge kicks when I get response on my work on my websites. Sometimes I get obsessed and must work on something on the website and my studying time suffers... But there has never been a problem.

I hope you like my site and that you will develop the same interest I did when I was younger. Enjoy!

Special thanks

M - for being the best and most loyal bracelet web-buddy ever.

Ellinor - for being my only (?) close-living fan.

Anders S and Björn - for giving me inspiration to start with web design.

Anders R - for teaching me PHP in high scool.

My sewing class teacher - for giving me access to friendship bracelets pattern books and string in secondary school.

Ania - for helping me with the site!