A long, long time ago, in a shopping centre far away, a girl purchased a loom band kit because they were cheap and she was sure she would be able to find something to do with them.
The loom band kit defeated her. All she could produce were brightly coloured chunky bracelets that were fit for a ten year old and not a discerning young woman like herself.
She couldn’t bring herself to make a key chain, so, fingers stinging from the harsh plastic of the loom, she put away her kit with shattered dreams.
Okay, that’s enough of that. As you can see, I picked it up again. This time the loom could be damned. That thing hurts your fingers! So, I Googled finger looming and found a way to do a fish tail braid using two fingers.
I’m not a fan of the chunkiness of a loom bracelet, so I wanted to soften the look with a bead of some sort. It look a little playing around, but I came up with a way to incorporate a circular object as the key piece in the band.
The gold ‘o’ might look familiar to you? It’s a letter from my alphabet kit that I spray painted gold. You can really use anything that is circular, or that has two holes in either end.
1 x circular bead, elastic loom bands in the colour of your choice, an ‘s’ ring (these come with the loom band kits), two fingers.
Under $10.
30 minutes.
This is the key component to the bracelet. You have to thread a band through the circular bead and anchor it on your two fingers in a figure 8.
Put on two more bands in a figure 8. You don’t have to use a figure 8, but I think it gives you a tighter weave.
Take the left and right loops of the bottom band and pull them up and over your fingertips, making a ‘v’. The bead will shift with the band, but that’s supposed to happen.
Add another band in a figure 8 so you always have 3 bands on your finger. Pull the bottom band up and over, add another, etc, and repeat until you have HALF the length of bracelet that you want. When it’s long enough, stop adding more bands and pull the last two over the fingers, securing the last band with the ‘s’ ring.
Reverse the band and repeat steps 1-4 from the other side of the bead. Tie off and secure with the ‘s’ring to make a loop and you’ve got your bracelet!
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