Elastics go not only to the manufacture of original jewelry, but also to various figures. The article will discuss how to make a snake using a slingshot and a machine tool. Here you do not need any tricky devices, and the work itself will take several minutes. Even a child, as well as a person who has never worked before weaving, can create his own original toy.
What do you need for work?
Before starting work, you need to make sure that you have the necessary materials at hand, namely:
- gum in a sufficient amount of the right colors;
- Crochet hook;
- and a slingshot that will help create an original toy.
Step-by-step instruction
Thinking about how to weave a snake out of gum, not many people know that the beginning of such work is quite simple. You need to take an elastic band (for example, orange) to wrap 4 times and fix on one of the columns of the slingshot. Two rubber bands, also orange, are put on top. Then the first twisted is removed and pulled together to the central part of two elastic bands.
At the next stage, you need to add another elastic band, for example, purple and drop the lower elastic bands from each column. Then a purple elastic band is also put on, on which turns from the bottom will be transferred.
Next, you need to use the elastic bands of the main color, this is exactly what the toy will ultimately be. Weave is necessary until the flagellum becomes the desired length.
How to weave a snake out of rubber bands with an original pattern on the base? Nothing is simpler, you just need to add multi-colored elastic bands, at least two times in all the work.
A snake cannot do without a head. To create this part of the toy, you will need to make three elements that will be combined by one elastic band. You need to take a couple of rubber bands and pull on both pegs, and then carefully remove the turns below.
Such work is performed at least five times. For example, a blue elastic band is taken and wound on the right peg. Then the whole product is transferred above the blue gum.
At the next stage, weaving continues, you need to lower the blue elastic to the main color and place it on the side. Then remove all revolutions from both pegs and transfer the rubber bands from the left column to the right. To understand how to further weave a snake out of the elastic bands, start making double elastic bands. The first double elastic is put on the column on the left.
At the next stage, you need to lower the loops down to make room for new rubber bands. Two elastic bands of the main color are poured, and then all the turns located on the left column are removed.
Weaving is necessary until the required length is reached, as soon as it is reached, transfer the turns from the left column to the right. Thus, the second part is ready, the third is done in a similar way, just remember to add the blue twisted elastic. After all the elements are finished, they must be moved to the column on the right.
The tongue of the snake can be made red, for this you will need an elastic band of the specified color, it is worn over the posts and all the curls located on the right peg are removed. Then you need to transfer the red rubber to the peg on the right and remove everything that is below. Thus, it becomes clear how to weave a snake out of gum on a slingshot.
Another weave option
You will need to purchase a machine and the right amount of gum. If desired, you can take large beads or beads, which will go to make a peephole.
What do you need?
Before you start weaving, you must have at hand:
- red rubber band;
- beads or beads;
- elastic bands of orange, purple and white;
- thin wire;
- machine and crochet hook.
Step-by-step instruction
How to weave a snake out of gum will be described later. It is necessary to position the machine so that the open columns are facing the needlewoman. The elastic is put on two extreme columns, for example, it will be orange. Then on the second and third columns you need to pass the purple, on top again orange. This way you will reach the end of the row. We put orange elastic bands on the second row of pegs, then purple and white, the third line is formed in the same sequence as the first.
Then you need to deploy the machine and use the hook to weave the first line, remove the chain and put on the last peg in the middle row. The middle line is also weaved and removed on a hook. The whole chain is transferred to the first row, fixed there. Then the last line is weaved, and then you need to remove the work on the hook. At the last stage, make a snake's head.
Start with the tongue, here you will need a red gum. It is located on the last peg of the middle row, on top of the diagonal 2 more rubber bands of orange color are attached. Using a wire, beads or beads are attached to individual elastic bands. The blanks are put on the machine, over them are attached 6 elastic bands on the following columns on one and the other side. The fifth columns of the outermost rows are connected diagonally. On average pegs 5 more elastic bands are fixed. With the help of a hook, a head is formed, which at the last stage connects to the body. So, the description of how to weave a snake out of gum on a machine tool is complete.