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janewilliams20Or, how to make a rainbow watch strap like this:
One thing I find annoying about loom band patterns is when you can only make one length of the loom, and that's nowhere near long enough to go round anyone's wrist. So you end up with things like this:
The ones on the right are made on a "fork", and you can go on "knitting" forever. The triple singles on the left are one loom-length, then extended with a single chain until they were long enough to fit.
Then I saw something on a market stall, saw YouTube demos of doing a triple single on two dinner forks, got thinking, and came up with this. Still needs a loom, but only six pegs.
To start with, you take three colour 1 bands and put them parallel to each other, and "held" in some way - for me, I had them going through the watch, but twisting would do. My pictures show one repeat, partway through the strap.
Reverse rainbow: I've done yellow, orange, red, and next we'll be on to violet.
From here, you put on the joining loop that will go across all three "singles" and hold them together. It needs to be the same colour as the pattern loops currently on the loom, and goes round the front three pegs.
Now we add the next layer of colour - three pattern loops in violet.
Time to do the hooking stage. Pick up the bottom band on each peg (the last pattern band) from the outside, and pull it over the peg into the middle.
Now on the front three pegs, do the same with the joining band.
And there we are ready for the next repeat. Four bands per repeat.
Here's the watch strap as a whole. The end attached to the loom is done as I've described: the other side was done tighter, with the joining band looped so as to go round the three pegs twice.
I prefer the looser version for watch straps, so I redid that.
As you can see, I've got the ends on holding hooks. That's far too long for me, so I shortened it back, then got the ends ready for an S-fastener. Pull an final band through all six loops, then attach both of its ends to the fastener.
And that produces the picture I started with. After all that, I wondered if the same technique could be used to make something wider. YouTube has the answer. Here's one 12 singles wide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUL7Dvrsfg
One thing I find annoying about loom band patterns is when you can only make one length of the loom, and that's nowhere near long enough to go round anyone's wrist. So you end up with things like this:
The ones on the right are made on a "fork", and you can go on "knitting" forever. The triple singles on the left are one loom-length, then extended with a single chain until they were long enough to fit.
Then I saw something on a market stall, saw YouTube demos of doing a triple single on two dinner forks, got thinking, and came up with this. Still needs a loom, but only six pegs.
To start with, you take three colour 1 bands and put them parallel to each other, and "held" in some way - for me, I had them going through the watch, but twisting would do. My pictures show one repeat, partway through the strap.
Reverse rainbow: I've done yellow, orange, red, and next we'll be on to violet.
From here, you put on the joining loop that will go across all three "singles" and hold them together. It needs to be the same colour as the pattern loops currently on the loom, and goes round the front three pegs.
Now we add the next layer of colour - three pattern loops in violet.
Time to do the hooking stage. Pick up the bottom band on each peg (the last pattern band) from the outside, and pull it over the peg into the middle.
Now on the front three pegs, do the same with the joining band.
And there we are ready for the next repeat. Four bands per repeat.
Here's the watch strap as a whole. The end attached to the loom is done as I've described: the other side was done tighter, with the joining band looped so as to go round the three pegs twice.
I prefer the looser version for watch straps, so I redid that.
As you can see, I've got the ends on holding hooks. That's far too long for me, so I shortened it back, then got the ends ready for an S-fastener. Pull an final band through all six loops, then attach both of its ends to the fastener.
And that produces the picture I started with. After all that, I wondered if the same technique could be used to make something wider. YouTube has the answer. Here's one 12 singles wide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrUL7Dvrsfg