If you still do not know how to weave a flower out of rubber bands, arm yourself with your favorite machine tool and detailed instructions - and get down to business! Below are detailed descriptions of the manufacture of beautiful flower pendants in two different ways.
Crochet only
Beginner needlewomen tend to feel uncomfortable with complex machines like Moon Lum or Rainbow Lum. It is much easier to understand how to weave a flower from elastic bands on a slingshot or only on a hook. At the same time, pendants made on the simplest machines and with one single hook often look even more chic than products that are expertly woven on the Moon Lum or the multimodal traditional Rainbow Lum.
To make a beautiful little thing that can decorate any man-made bracelet, take multi-colored rubber bands from the ready-made kit and two plastic hooks.
Beginning of work
- Throw two red rubber bands onto the hook and insert the second tool into them so that tension forms.
- Twist the "Fanny Lum" figure eight, while holding both hooks in a strictly vertical position.
- Pry off two red rubber bands with your right hook, drop all the loops from the tool onto them. Repeat with the second hook.
- Throw the first rubber band from the tool on the left onto the right hook.
Building a petal
- Very soon, you will understand how to weave a flower out of elastic bands correctly. Pry the two yellow “Fanny Loom” with your right crochet and drop only the first couple of stitches on them.
- Transfer the yellow loop from the right tool to the left.
- Pry the two green rubber bands with the right hook, fold all the loops, repeat on the left side.
- Transfer all the loops to one hook, gradually adding two purple and two blue rubber bands.
- Pry up a pair of red rubber bands with an instrument and drop all the loops on them. The first petal is ready.
Flower picking
- Weave five petals and transfer them to one hook. Pry up the two red Fanny Lum tool.
- Reset all loops to new rubber bands.
- Pull the left loop from the hook through the right. The result was a suspension loop.
Now you know how to weave a flower out of elastic bands with a simple crochet.
Rainbow Loom Pendant
Having learned how to make simple jewelry, needlewomen usually move on to mastering classic weaving machines. The most popular of these is the traditional Rainbow Lum. To make a flower on it for decorating stationery or finished bracelets, take rubber bands of three colors, a machine tool and a hook.
Where to begin
- To first-hand understand how to weave flowers from rubber bands on the machine, pick up the Rainbow Lum and slide the center row one column. Then make a hexagon of rubber bands of the first color (for example, red) and lower it down.
- Throw rubber bands of the second color (say, blue) on the columns from the center to the edges of the hexagon.
- Sketch the “Fanny Lum” of the third color (for example, yellow) in the same way as the first.
- Take the blue rubber band and wind it three times on the center column, then pull out the “Fanny Loom” on the center column one by one. Spin the flower petals from the center to the columns of the hexagon.
Final stage
- Spin the red row.
- Make three loops, go back to the starting point and add three more loops in the same way.
- Tighten the new yellow rubber band, which will serve as a loop for the keyring.
- Remove the keychain from the machine. Now the flower can be used as decoration for a pen, pencil or felt-tip pen. It is also suitable for decorating bracelets and for use as a key part of a keychain for a bunch of keys or a telephone.
If you are interested in other methods of making such pendants or if you would like to experiment and independently figure out how to weave a flower from gum on any of the existing machines, go for it! Your freedom of creativity is determined by your imagination and resourcefulness.