How to make bracelets by yourself: for beginners

For all who like to be bright, fashionable, stand out from the gray crowd, there is an excellent opportunity - weaving accessories from rubber bands Loom bands. Bracelets with your own hands for beginners can be done in many ways. The simplest are described below.

Weaving options and product design

If you look closely at photos of these bright ornaments, you can understand that the patterns are made in different ways. A drawing can be defined both by the kind of interlacing of elements, and by color combinations. Thanks to a wide range of colors of rubber bands, it is enough to master only the simplest schemes to make beautiful bracelets with your own hands. For beginners this is quite affordable. Using combinations of colors in any sequence, even one template can easily create many different ornaments for the wrist.

Materials and devices

For work you will need:

• Rubber bands for bracelets.
• Plastic lock for fastening the product into a ring.
• The device for weaving (machine, slingshot, fork), although you can just work with your fingers.
• Hook (enough conventional knitting, but sold and special) for the convenience of throwing loops.

All of the above is easy to buy separately, but you can buy a set for bracelets. In addition to the necessary tools, it includes rubber bands in a large number and assortment of colors. So this option is convenient. By the way, a great idea for a gift girlfriend.

Simple bracelets with your own hands for beginners on the fingers

If you decided solely to try a new lesson and are not going to get carried away, you can do without buying any additional tools. Get only the rubber bands for the bracelets and get to work. For the first experiment, take the elements of the same color. The sequence of actions will be as follows:

1. On the middle and forefinger, put on the first gum in the form of a figure eight.
2. Take the second and put on both fingers without crossing.
3. Do the same with the third one.
4. Prydte first the right side of the bottom gum-eight and toss it over the top, taking it off your finger to the middle.
5. Do the same with the left side of the lower band.
6. Put one more element on top of the rest without crossing.
7. Now repeat the previous three steps again. Do this until the correct length is obtained.
8. Connect the last loop to the first real one (the eight element can be removed) with the help of a plastic buckle in the form of a figure-eight or a ringlet (what you buy).

All is ready.

Braiding from elastics: bracelets on a slingshot

The same sequence of steps is easy to accomplish with the help of a special device. This is much more convenient, since the hands are always free. In addition, bracelets on the slingshot can be done in one more way:

1. Put on the first gum of eight on both horns slingshot.
2. The second is to be worn without crossing.
3. Take a few gums of one or different colors and place on any of the horns.
4. Another rubber band (better than the same color as the first two), put a ring on both horns;
5. Remove the right and left parts of the first crossed rubber band through the tips of the horns to the middle, as was done in the previous method on the fingers.
6. Repeat the steps to the desired length.
7. Put the buckle on.

The product is complete.

Weaving on the fork

If you take a plastic disposable cutlery and remove the middle denticles, then it is easy to use this tool like a slingshot or fingers. On four denticles, you can get other patterns, while the bracelet will be wider and more effective. Work as follows:

1. Take an elastic band and fold it in half in the form of two rings, cross them with a figure eight and put on two middle prongs of the plug.
2. Do the same for the extreme left and second, as well as the extreme right and third, if you number them from left to right. You will get a braided fork, and on the middle two denticles the rings will be in two rows.
3. Add the next elastic band twice, but do not cross, but immediately put on the middle teeth of the plug.
4. Carefully pick up the lower loops from the middle ones and swing them over the tops back for the teeth.
5. Take another pair of rubber bands and, folding them in half, as in the previous steps, put two teeth on the left and two on the right.
6. Pull the lower loops successively on each tooth through the tips back behind the plane of the fork.
7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 until the desired length of the bracelet.
8. Remove the loops from the outer teeth to the nearest medium.
9. Follow step 3 and 4.
10. From the remaining two loops, swing one over the other. Remove from the plug and insert the lock. It is more convenient to use the hook to thread the plastic element in the eyelets. The second end is threaded into the first loop of the bracelet.

You have a wide product with a neat pattern. This option can be performed both from one color, and consistently alternating different shades. It is worth noting that for the convenience of removing the loops it is better to use a toothpick. It is much easier, than just with your fingers, to poke in small rings.

Weaving on the machine

The accessories for bracelets are now represented by a wide range of accessories and parts. If you look at the big set for this kind of creativity, you will see that, besides slingshots and hooks, plastic machines enter there. Usually they look like coasters with removable posts.

For each product, you can put a certain number of rods in one or more rows. Any of the above weaving methods can work on the machine. For those offered for fingers and slingshots, you need to use two bars on the machine, and for the latter, proposed for the fork, respectively - four.

As you can see, bracelets for beginners are made very easy for beginners. The listed methods can be realized with the help of any tool or only on the fingers. Choose your favorite method of weaving and adaptation. Create fashionable jewelry yourself.