Objective: How do you braid thread in order to make a friendship bracelet?

Which of the following solutions is more sound in terms of naive physics reasoning?

OPTIONS:
(i). Take all of your pieces of thread and lay them on a table next to each other then pull them over each other one at a time starting from the right then moving to the left until the bracelet is braided.;
(ii). Take all of your pieces of wire and lay them on a table next to each other then pull them over each other one at a time starting from the right then moving to the left until the bracelet is braided.;
(i).