How to blanket stitch braid

[MissAnthropik]

Here is the link to Dr Lock's blanket stitch tutorial:

http://www.doctoredlocks.com/store/tut_ ... titch.html

[LittlePinkFaery]

i was going to search for one of those- cool! I never went back to normal braiding again!

[Wild.Rabbit.Ren]

Iv been looking for one of these. Thank you!

[Punkbuster]

I can't seem to figure blanket stitching out. Still. D=

[rivetlicker_]

It takes practise.
It's easier to do it with longer hair, although it can strengthen the install on shorter hair, ie, the natural hair won't get as loose as quick

[IKickShins]

I did a tutorial with different colors of hair for each strand because all of the other tutorials out there confused me for ages:
http://ikickshins.net/hairguide/blanketstitchbraid.htm

[Punkbuster]

I think my initial problem was that I'm trying to practice on a Sepia wig, and the over/under part totally confused me.

OMG THANK YOU. Silly me, I didn't think of checking out your site. >_< Your tut made perfect sense to me. Loves!

[[Tank]]

IKickShins you're a genius I say, I think I have finally learnt how to blanket stitch.

[kezerb]

I did it! OMG I did it *cries with joy* Thankies both of you

[MissAnthropik]

once you get into it, it is easier than a normal braid. I find myself doing it by mistake when I mean to be doing normal braids!

[shavira]

I've been braiding hair this way for as long as I've been braiding people's hair.
I always asked myself why a lot of people at this forum didn't, but I guess it has to do with my hair.
I have extreem curls of my own, that starts dreading by itself if I don't condition and brush my hair every day.
So putting in dreads while leaving hair loos wasn't possible for me..
That's how I came to this way of braiding

I love it and think it's the best one (for me offcourse, not that someone else's way is bad!)

[MissAnthropik]

I've been braiding hair this way for as long as I've been braiding people's hair.
I always asked myself why a lot of people at this forum didn't, but I guess it has to do with my hair.
I have extreem curls of my own, that starts dreading by itself if I don't condition and brush my hair every day.
So putting in dreads while leaving hair loos wasn't possible for me..
That's how I came to this way of braiding

I love it and think it's the best one (for me offcourse, not that someone else's way is bad!)

I think most people on this forum don't leave their hair loose, they braid it in the standard way - a 3 strand braid with the dread being the third strand which looks like a criss-cross pattern on a dread.

Those with long hair do tend to use the blanket stitch braid AFAIK. I think it first got mentionned on the ezboard and some people had been using it anyway, and others were new to it. I think it;s been fairly well used since then though

[MissAnthropik]

Oh, and for those with long hair, rather than braid down, and then back up again, there is another way to shorten the length of the braid, which I found easier and neater to do.

When you do the strand of your own hair which kind of wraps around the dread, you can wrap it round twice, and put the second wrap on top of the first one, if you do this with every pass of your own hair then your braid will be twice as short but just as secure.

Maybe others already do this IDK, but to me it was far easier than trying to braid up again which just confused my hands!

[AmberLilith]

Thanks for posting both of these tutorials -just what i needed as every time i've tried to learn blanket-stitch before, it's gone wrong...

[tazzyface]

Thanks for posting these! The standard criss-cross (I have such a great vocabulary) braiding method never worked on my excessively long hair >.<