Macraméd friendship bracelets were all the rage when I was growing up in  the eighties. All the girls at my school would obsessively make them  for one another in a dizzying variety of colors, widths, and patterns.  It&#x27;s amazing, thinking back, that such young girls could make such  beautifully intricate accessories. I, of course,  tried my hand at  making them as well. I would ride my bike down to the five-and-dime  store and pick out the most sophisticated color combinations of …