How to weave a wide bracelet of elastic bands: a step-by-step description

If you already know how to create simple ornaments from multi-colored "Fanny Lum", then you are probably interested in how to weave beautiful wide bracelets made of rubber bands that have gained unbelievable popularity among teenagers around the globe. Try to make one of the fresheners described below - and you will be able to master new skills of weaving from "Fanny Lum".

Rainbow Bracelet

In order not to get confused in numerous miniature details and not complicate the production of youth jewelry by adding all sorts of plastic trinkets and mini-figures, make for the beginning the simplest decoration. Read beforehand how to weave a wide bracelet from the rubber bands of the seven colors of the rainbow and you can get down to business.

To create a motley rainbow baubles you will need elastic bands of the corresponding colors (rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, purple), as well as a hook, four S-shaped clips for fastening the bracelet and a classic "Rainbow Loom" machine.

First step

• First, remove the middle row of columns from the machine. Throw the colored bands on eight columns, using the chart below, and throw the contact (transport) "Fanny Lum" into the last four turns.
• Turn the machine open sides to yourself. Enter the hook under the rubber band, hook the bottom and throw it to the next column. Repeat these steps with the remaining "Fanny Lum".
• Throw eight columns of the first and second rows of one rubber, following the first color series of the proposed scheme.
• Discard the lower bound rubber bands in the center of the machine.

Second phase

If, by textual instructions alone, you do not quite understand how to weave a wide bracelet made of rubber bands, the table-chart will help you to understand the tricks of the combination of shades.

• Check the correctness of following the scheme and throw on the machine elastic band-screed: one red color first to four bars, then five, capturing the column, which has already been thrown "Fanny Lum".
• Throw in the new colored rubber bands, observing the prescriptions of the scheme-table. This will be the second color series.
• Discard the rubber bands in the center of the machine.
• Discard the "Fanny Lum" of the lower row from all the posts to the center. Repeat the second step, sketching the colored bands according to the pattern, until you get the product you need.
• After figuring out how to weave a wide bracelet out of rubber bands for a given pattern, complete the decoration and fasten the cloth with the four S-shaped clips.

The scheme

Pay attention to the numbers in the table. Those that are located horizontally, indicate the number of columns of the machine "Rainbow Loom", used in making the "rainbow" bracelet. The vertical numbers indicate the number of rows. The letters in the cells of the table correspond to the colors of the used rubber bands (K - red, O - orange, J - yellow, Z - green, G - blue, C - blue, F - purple).

Bracelet with name

If you not only know how to weave a wide bracelet out of rubber bands, but also know how to make a decoration so that the multicolored "Fanny Lum" read the name of a friend or girlfriend, then you can safely consider yourself a master of wide weaving on the machine.

To create an original personal baubles you will need a scheme (you can use the proposed table or take it as a base and re-make it to your own taste), gums of two contrasting shades (for example, pink and blue or white and violet), as well as a hook, clip and traditional machine Rainbow Loom.

How to weave a wide bracelet of rubber bands?

A photo of a similar weaving will help you navigate the location of the rubber bands and loops on the machine.

• First of all, sketch, without twisting, a pink elastic band-screed on five columns of the long row (remove the central row from Rainbow Loom). From above, throw five more pink rubber bands, twisting them with eights.
• Discard the center of the elastic band-screed.
• Those who have considerable experience in creating classical and individualized jewelry, probably already guessed how to weave a wide bracelet of rubber bands in such a way as to "fit" a short word into it. If you do not know how to arrange these loops, follow the instructions provided. Throw, without twisting, a pink elastic band-screed on five columns of the far row. Top five more pink "Fanny Loom" in the usual position.
• Discard the center of the elastic band-screed and the bottom pink products from all the posts. Repeat the current and previous stages, changing the color of the rubber bands, according to the chosen scheme. In order to finish the bracelet, flip the loops from the columns of the current row to the next row. Remove all the loops on the hook, pick up the pink rubber band and drop all the loops on it. Secure the finished product with an S-shaped clip.

Schematic version

In the proposed scheme-table for the production of personalized baubles of rubber bands "Fanny Lum", the numbers on the left indicate the number of columns used in the process of making the decoration, and the numbers on the top indicate the number of rows in the future product. Under this scheme, you will get a bouquet with the name "Julia" (empty cells designate white bands, symbol "+" - purple).

Use plain paper in a box and colored pens or pencils in order to develop your own chart scheme with the name of your beloved friend. You already know how to weave a wide bracelet made of rubber bands. The instruction and the sample table will help you to orient yourself in the process of needlework.