- [Kristen] Today we'll learn
how to make these layered flowers.
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and love your stitches.
Today's loom is the Clover Flower loom,
it's also called the Hana Ami.
Your loom colors may change from country to country,
and your needle might be a little bit different.
I'm going to use a metal needle today,
use whatever you feel comfortable with.
Let's grab the loom that we need for this project.
For this flower, you're going to need
the largest round loom, the hexagon or hexagonal loom,
and the smallest round loom with your tapestry needle.
Click on the link in the description below
to get all the materials used in this video today.
This is the layered flower.
We're going to start wrapping this up,
and I want to show you another one.
These are the same thing.
They're made using the same techniques.
This one is wrapping all the looms one time,
and this one is wrapping the outside,
first largest one, one time,
and then these other two looms twice,
to get this really cool kind of chrysanthemum look.
The yarn here is not as stiff
as the one on the right.
It springs back,
it's an acrylic wool blend and the middle is a cotton.
So, I'm gonna show you how to wrap it
and then we'll talk about the darning method.
It's using a simple center darning method.
All right, let's start.
All right to make this flower,
we're going to thread our tapestry needle,
and put it through one of these holes here,
any one will do.
I like to use the one that lines up with the pegs here.
It looks a little different on these other sides.
Whichever one you use is fine.
Go ahead and tie a little knot here,
and roll it to the back to keep it from coming out.
You could put a slip knot in if you want.
We're gonna set our tapestry needle aside
and string the loom.
We're going to come straight up,
past all these pegs,
and go around and down,
and then go to the right just on this very beginning,
to the right of these three pegs,
and go around and hold it with your thumb.
Okay that completes that petal set.
We're going to go to the next one.
You're just concentrating on this outside loom here.
We're gonna go around on the right-side of this peg,
around there and down and to the next peg,
and we're gonna go to the right of this opposite peg here.
Hold it, and it's on the left,
so we're going to be going to
the right of this peg up here.
So, go to the right and go around,
and if you trap those in that's great,
if not that's fine.
Go down into the next one and around,
I like to get these two in here,
and so that mirrors that side.
We're gonna go around to this right side here,
and down, down to here.
So if you notice, I'm on the,
I'm going to the opposite side.
When I cross to the other side,
I'm going to the opposite way.
So I came from the left here,
so I'm going to the right of this peg here and around
and then all the way up and around
and it's coming from the left and it goes
to the right over here.
So I think you get the idea.
I just rotate my loom as I go around,
and I push down.
Sometimes I'm pushing down the middle
and sometimes I'm holding onto the end with my thumb
to keep it from falling off.
Depending on your yarn,
it may be more slippery than others.
Easy for me to say.
Okay keep going around until you get
all the petals formed using all the pegs
on the outside loom.
Pause your video or pause, rewind,
or fast forward, whatever you need to do.
Okay we're gonna do the hexagon loom
after we do the large loom.
Okay so we just did the round one, the large round.
Now we're gonna go to the hexagon.
So I'm coming up from this last peg here
and I'm gonna go up to,
see this is where that bottom was,
we're gonna go to this one here on the hexagon.
So we're gonna go to the right of that peg
and you're going in between a real tight spot here.
You may have to move your thumb right in there.
Come down and around
and hold it
and the same thing.
It's the same exact wrapping technique.
You're just kinda going around all these other pegs.
It's essential when you're wrapping pegs,
especially with multiple looms,
you always wrap the outermost loom first.
When you're finished all the wrappings there,
then you move on to the next one
and wrap those.
All right so keep wrapping around.
Now on the one that I did,
I had two wraps on the hexagon loom
and two wraps on the smallest loom.
This one I'm just gonna do one wrap on each.
I am pulling tightly on this yarn.
One, it keeps it from jumping off the peg
and keeps it on here nice and tight.
If it's loose, it really jumps off easily.
The other thing is I do like how it has a spring.
See how it's really fluffy this way
and when I pull it, it's tighter.
It does spring back as you saw from that,
the beginning part of the tutorial, and I like that look.
All right so now I've completed all around every one.
They all have one on the peg.
And now we're just gonna go around the center one.
It's done exact same way.
Okay so just wrap around all of them one time.
And your yarn, depending on how many times
you wrap around the loom,
it could be opposite of where you originally tied
on the yarn.
That's all right.
Oops, dropped one.
Yep see this is, this is why you gotta pay attention.
When I had those extra rounds on there,
it was really thick and it would pop off very easily,
so you gotta be careful.
So this is now ready.
It's going to the other side and I can tie these together.
If the string is on the other side, that's fine too.
Or you can wrap it around one more loop
and come back over here and tie it together
if that's easier for you.
It's not gonna matter.
Nobody's gonna notice that there's an extra petal
on that side.
Go ahead and tie those.
And especially on this one,
it gets really springy the more loops you have on there,
so be careful that you're pushing all these down
and tying it securely.
Now you're ready to darn your flower.
I'm going to show you how to start it,
and then we'll fast forward and show you the ending.
I want you to click in the upper right-hand corner here
to learn how to darn it,
and I wanna show you what this one looks like
with one loop on each one of these just to show
you the difference.
This is the point where you will
start darning, so you're just gonna get out
your contrasting yarn.
You can certainly go with the same color there too.
We're gonna go ahead and push this on through.
And we're gonna come through the back.
And because we did the center darning technique,
it's gonna be easier to find the center here.
Right there, so it kinda moves around
and makes it easier.
If you wrap the other way,
just the flat wrapping technique that I've shown before,
it doesn't come through the center as easy.
And then you just start coming through
each individual petal,
the ones that catch as many as possible,
it makes it easier.
Okay, I'm gonna go fast here just because
I have another video that shows all that.
Makes sure these are pushed down,
especially on this first go round.
We're gonna go underneath here and you can see
where the tail is coming out.
That's an easy way to find that center again.
Pull it on through
and catch that next petal.
I like to go through all of 'em
and then go down.
All right.
You just keep going around and then finish off the center,
be sure to click on that video link
to get the darning method.
I'm gonna show what this looks like right now.
There's our layered flower.
And we've got it to compare against the one
that has just a few extra layers wrapped on there
and the original flower.
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Tell us what did you think?
Do you like the one with less layers or more layers?
I'd love to hear back from you.
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on these flowers here.
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