In this article, we will learn how to weave a minion out of rubber bands. Surely, such a home-made product will attract attention to you. If the process of creating such a bracelet directly with your own hands can cause you difficulty, then here we will also consider the question of how to weave a minion from rubber bands on the machine. In addition, there is a special set of rubber bands for such handmade art. Therefore, how to weave a bracelet made of gum "Mignon" will also not remain a secret for you.
Who are the minions?
Many people know the cartoon "Despicable Me", which came out in two parts at the moment. And although someone may not be very familiar with the cartoon, many characters are probably familiar with the characters-assistants of the main character. We are talking about small, but very funny yellow creatures from the "support team" of an evil genius, who in combination and turns out to be the protagonist of the cartoon.
How to weave a rubber band minion?
Such a product will serve as a wonderful decoration for your mobile phone, cosmetic bag, purse or just a beautiful accessory that will delight you and others!
So, let's begin. First we learn how to weave a rubber band minion on a hook. To do this, we need rubber bands of various colors: yellow and blue - like the minion itself, white, black or other dark ones that you have - to decorate individual elements. If your imagination prompts you to add other colors - it will only be more interesting!
Detailed DIY weaving guide
What do we need:
To begin, take the blue gum. There should be 38. Put on the hook one blue elastic band four times.
Then, having put on two more blue elastic bands on the hook, we will remove on them all four “ears” of the previous elastic band.
On the next two elastic bands, remove the “ears” from the previous ones and repeat this until five blue rows are obtained.
We repeat the same thing with the yellow elastic bands: putting on two new elastic bands, remove the “ears” from them from the previous ones until you get five yellow rows.
Then all this column, which we just got, you need to move to the other end of the hook to start making a new column.
Put on the hook again one elastic band four times.
Then again we cross five rows with blue rubber bands, as in the last column.
We cross two rows with yellow rubber bands, and one with two white ones.
All this column is shifted to the right.
Take two dark elastic bands and put each on a hook to make only eight “ears”.
On two yellow elastic bands we will remove all these eight "ears".
Next, on one edge of the yellow gum we put on both edges of the white gum from the previous column.
We distribute the two edges of the white gum so that the dark ones are inside. We've got the minion's eye!
Then we weave two more rows with yellow rubber bands.
Move this column to the right to the hook and weave another column - exactly the same as the first.
Take two more yellow gum, remove all the “ears” from the previous columns.
Remove what happened, and tighten the edges of the elastic in a knot.
Now put the hook into the lower blue "ears" and pass through them another blue elastic.
Then we will extend the hook into the next blue row and stretch through it a blue elastic band from the bottom row.
Thus, adding new elastic bands and not forgetting to tighten the knots, weave all the blue rows and the yellow ones (with yellow elastic bands, of course)
In order to blindfold our minion, first we will knit two dark elastic bands together, and then, passing through the white elastic bands in front of the minion’s eyes, we will extend one pair of dark rubber bands through them.
Behind the ends of the dark elastic bands we will tighten one yellow one and hide all the ends in the body of the minion.
In order to make his mouth, we will extend the hook through between the blue and yellow rows, stretch a dark pair of elastic bands through them, and then also tighten the yellow elastic band and hide the ends in the body.
The result of hard, but interesting work
With such quick and simple movements, we figured out how to weave a minion on a hook. Now he will delight you and everyone around. And to the enthusiastic exclamations about him, you can easily tell how to weave a minion out of rubber bands!
Weaving minions from rubber bands using a machine
Now we will figure out how to weave a minion from rubber bands on the machine.
To do this, we need the same set of rubber bands, a hook and a machine.
We fix the machine evenly, the arrow should look down.
We put one black elastic on the center row vertically.
Then arrange two yellow ones horizontally, and then another two rubber bands in three vertical rows.
On the extreme pegs of the second row we put on yellow rubber bands, and in the middle - black.
In the third row we put on the edges two black ones, and in the middle - two white ones.
On the fourth - two yellow on the edges and two black in the center.
The fifth row consists only of yellow rubber bands.
The sixth and seventh rows consist entirely of blue rubber bands.
In the eighth row we put on black rubber bands only from the edges. And in the middle we’ll leave a void.
Then, twisting two black rubber bands three times (individually), we put them on the blue with a hook.
At the joints of the yellow and blue rubber bands, we fix two more twisted black rubber bands.
On black elastic bands at the end of the minion, on both sides we spin another black rubber band.
Twist the blue gum in half and fix it on three pegs of the machine over black.
In the same way, we fix the blue rubber bands over the blue ones, the yellow ones over the yellow ones, and the black ones over the black ones.
Shutting down when using the machine
Soon our minion will begin to appear! It remains only to remove it from the machine.
Thus, you learned how to weave a minion on the machine. This small accessory can serve as a wonderful gift for your friends or for your child. To give such a cute present made by yourself can be very useful for establishing friendly relations with a person. Now you can safely tell everyone how to weave a minion from rubber bands on the machine or without it. And the next guide in particular will turn out to be a nice gift for your friends!
Weaving a bracelet from special rubber bands
In addition to ordinary toys, key rings on a mobile phone or keys, you can learn how to weave bracelets from Mignon gum. This is especially true for fans of funny yellow creatures.
In order to figure out how to weave a minion in this form, we need to prepare the necessary material: rubber bands of blue, yellow, white, black and gray, a machine tool, a hook and three S-shaped clips.
We set up the machine exactly, its cavities should look “from us”.
We extend the middle row so that it protrudes one column forward.
Alternately we put six yellow elastic bands on the columns of the far left row, we put them on the right row in the same way.
We proceed to the middle row: we put one yellow rubber band on the first two columns, on the second and third columns we put on a white rubber band.
On the third and fourth columns we put on four white rubber bands. Here will be the eye of our minion.
Then we put on four more rubber bands one by one. They should be one column further than from the edges.
Now make the torso. We put six elastic bands on the left and right columns, and five on the middle one.
Let's go back to the eye. To do this, we wind the black elastic on the hook four times, hook the hook on the yellow elastic and stretch black on it.
On the third columns of the right and left rows, we fix the resulting workpiece. The black eye should be exactly in the middle.
We put blue elastic bands on the three bottommost columns with a triangle. There should be six such triangles.
Then we put six yellow triangles on the yellow rubber bands. The last three columns should remain empty.
We turn the machine over with cavities “on itself” to make it easier to weave.
Move the right lower gum of the triangle and transfer the lower gum to the next column.
We bind so the entire right row. The gum holding the eye should also be pushed back!
Similarly, we bind all the remaining rows. Remember: when weaving four white elastic bands, pick them up one at a time so as not to tear.
Now throw all the gum from the extreme rows to the middle and stretch one blue gum.
Carefully remove our minion and straighten the white rubber bands exactly around the eye.
So that the bracelet does not tighten his hand, on the machine we will tie to it the usual chain of blue rubber bands and put on a clip.
Summing up the big work
Above, we looked at two ways to weave a minion, from one of which you can borrow here a method of weaving a bandage around the eyes and mouth.
Now we know how to weave Mignon gum bracelets, which will serve as beautiful accessories for you. They will give a lot of positive emotions. You can also tell how to weave minion bracelets to your children and acquaintances!