God's Eye / Thread Mandala

Hi everyone! Let's start this intense tutorial. It is about how to make the called God's eye. I prefer to call it thread mandala. It's really not difficult, you just have to make a kind of loop. The important is in the position in which you make the loop.

Supplies

• Thread (more colors are better)
• Sticks
• Pliers
• Scissors
• Silicone
• Ruler

Step 1: Sticks

Cut the tips if needed and mark the middle. For the firts model we will need three sticks.

Step 2: Template

Divide a circle in six, this will be our template.

Step 3: Start With the Thread

Make a knot wrapping around the three sticks. Begins to twirl the thread around the center.

Step 4: Adjust It

You have to put the sticks on top of the template to see if you are doing it straight. You can also glue the sticks with silicone before strarting with the thread.

Step 5: Start Knitting-hexagon

I'm going to teach you the only loop you need to know to make many types of shapes.

Start with the thread on the left, pass it over the stick to the right, pass it underneath, tighten it and pass to the next stick and do de same in every stick.

To finish with a color, make a normal knot around the stick.

Step 6: Change Color

(Start with a knot wrapping around the stick).

Do the same. You have to hide the excess thread of the previous color by wrapping it when you make the loop (see pictures).

Step 7: Petals

Same loop but on the opposite stick.

Step 8: All Petals

It's not necessary to cut the thread, when you finish making two petals move on the next two. Mae the same number of loops on all sticks.

Step 9: Hexagon

Do the same as at the beginning.

Step 10:

Wind the thread on the stick, ten turns up and ten turns down. Change stick and do the same until you have it on all sticks.

Step 11: Triangle

The same loop but leaving a stick in between.

Step 12: Triangle on the Remaining Sticks

Now we are going to do the same but in the sticks that we have not done before.

Step 13: Hexagon

Make the hexagon again in several colors.

Step 14: Finishing

Add a hanger and cut the tips.

Step 15: Second Model

(Ignore the marks)

Join two sticks perpendicularly with silicone, help yourself with the ruler (90º). (Make this two times).

Now take the two crosses and join them with silicone, helps yourself with the ruler (45º).

Start wrapping with thread.

Step 16: Start Knitting-Octogon

You know how to do, right?

The same loop in each stick.

Now I'm gluing the excess threads with silicone on the back.

Step 17: Square

The same that triangle. Make the same loop by alternating the sticks.

Step 18: Petals

Here I could have made another square but I wanted to vary, I made only four petals.

Step 19: Octogon

Same as step 16.

Step 20:

Wind the thread on the stick, ten turns up and ten turns down. Change stick and do the same until you have it on all sticks (with green).

Then I made two pink squares.

Step 21:

Wind the blue thread and then two squares, green and purple.

Step 22: Finishing

These mandalas can be made combining all shapes, in the first (hexagons, triangles, petals); in the second one (octagons, square, petals). Obviously the difference is that the first one has six ends and the second one has eight ends. There are more ways to place the threads to make other figures, but these are the basic ones, for the first tutorial is fine.

I hope you liked this craft. Than you!!