Weaving Christmas tree of rubber bands on photos and video lessons

April 28, 2017 handmadebase

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How to weave on a machine a Christmas tree made of rubber bands
Video: Different variants of weaving Christmas tree

You can weave almost any figure from rubber bands, including a Christmas tree. It will be a wonderful gift on the eve of the New Year.

You will need to stock up on the machine itself, on which we will do the weaving. Rubber bands of different colors: brown, green. Small rings to decorate the New Year's beauty.
To weave a Christmas tree, you can use this instruction or watch the video on the website.

How to weave on a machine a Christmas tree made of rubber bands

The initial stage is preparatory. We place the machine posts in a checkerboard pattern. We connect the posts of the middle row in pairs with green rubber bands. In total, we need to use 8 cuts.
Next up is the turn of the brown irises.You will need four of them. Three of them continue to connect the central columns of the loom in pairs, and the last one - the final one - is wrapped around the last of them four times. At the beginning of weaving, we also wrap the first column with an orange elastic band 4 times.
We use 1 row, folded in half, to connect the second columns in pairs (the far left with the central one, the far right with the central one). The result is shown in the picture in Figure 6.
Let's start weaving the branches of the Christmas tree.They will be decorated with rings, for this 2 cuts, folded in half, put on the penultimate places on the edge. The extreme colored irises will decorate our New Year's beauty. At your discretion, you can use either the same shades or multi-colored ones. In our master class, we will use rubber bands of different shades.

From under the yellow rubber bands we pull out the green one and put it on the second column of the middle row. We repeat this step on both sides of the weaving.
After that, you can simply remove the yellow rubber bands. Here the tree is decorated with its first branches - the shortest ones. You can watch a video of this process on the website.
We begin to weave the remaining branches of the tree.As you know, they become longer towards the bottom. Therefore, on each subsequent row we will increase the length of the branches, adding an additional elastic band. We connect the third columns in pairs with the central one with green elastic bands. Then the third and fourth ones along the edges (the location of the elastic bands can be seen in the picture in step 14).

The second branches of the tree will be decorated with red onesrings. To do this, fold the elastic band in four and put it on 4 st. Repeat this step for both sides of the machine. Remember that the tree should be symmetrical, so make the length of the branches on each side the same.
From under the red ribbon we pull out the green one and throw it onto the 3rd column. We continue to weave further, at each stage we pull out the lower irises and throw them onto the previous columns.
Once you reach the center (when the loop is put on the central post), you can remove all the loops. According to this pattern, you need to weave the remaining branches, each time decorating them from the edge with rainbows of different colors.

The longest branches of the tree will have to be startedmake on fingers, as the length of the loom is not enough. You can use two looms, but if you don’t have them, use improvised means. Put 1 rubber band of any color on the hook. Put the iris, folded in half, on two fingers. Pull the second through the first so that the yellow elastic band ends up on the green one, as in Figure 24.
This piece is tied to the edge of the lowest branches and weaving continues according to the pattern of the previous row.

Next, the tree needs to be taken down.First, we throw off everything from the outer rows. Then we knit the middle from right to left. We start from the trunk and go towards the top. We finish with a knot at the top. You can attach a large loop to the top to use the tree as a keychain or New Year's decoration.