In this tutorial we are making five beautiful band bracelets, all without a loom or a hook.
I will also show you five magic band tricks with which you can impress your friends.
Hey guys! I've been asked so many times to film a rubber band bracelet tutorial and I
finally decided to give it a try. I'm gonna share this five designs with you today, some
of them you may have already seen, some of them may be new. These are just the ones that
I really like. And the best part is that you don't need a loom or a hook to make them,
all you need is your fingers and things that you can find around your house. Alright, now
go grab your bands and let's get started. First let’s make this beautiful red and
green infinity sign bracelet. You’ll need any kind of connector charm, a c-clip and
some bands. You'll also need a couple of fingers, I'll use a pointer and my middle finger. Stick
the rubber band through one infinity loop. Put the band on your fingers, by going through
one loop with a pointer and through the other with a middle finger. Then put on a second
band. Grab your bottom band, pull it over the finger and release. Do the same on the
middle finger. Put the next band layer on and again grab the bottom band and pull it
over both fingers. From time to time you need to push your bands down to make space for
more bands. Go in with a new band and just repeat the step. Pull the bottom band over
the top one and over your fingers on both sides. When you reach half of the desired
length of your bracelet, take a c-clip and slide it on the band loop on one side. Then
pull everything over to the pointer and slide the clip on there as well. The first half
of the bracelet is complete, so it’s time to make the same band chain on the other side
of the infinity sign. Stick the band through the infinity loop, put it on your fingers
and then add another band layer. Pull the bottom band over the top one, over the finger
and release. As you can see I am alternating between red and green bands all the time to
get that red-green alternating pattern. You can use any band colors you like: perhaps
just one band color for the entire bracelet or you can alternate between three or four
different colors. Here comes my last band and the bracelet is long enough for me. To
finish off slide on a c-clip through both band loops like so. And there you go! This
cute but simple bracelet is done in literally two minutes. And you can make it using any
connector charm, how cool is that!? Next we are making this pretty beaded band
bracelet, but first let's make a simple loom out of two pencils, eraser and some tape.
Put the pencils on the left and right side of the eraser, then wrap some tape around
to hold everything in place. This simple loom can be used to make many different bracelets
and you'll learn a few more designs in this tutorial.
For our beaded bracelet we need some beads, twice as many bands - I went for three different
colors of each, a c-clip and a pencil loom. You can also make this bracelet on two fingers
just as we did before. To save me some time, I like to stick a band through the bead first
and make a bunch of these beaded bands. You also want to have some bands ready without
beads because we will be alternating between empty bands and bands with beads. Ok, take
your first empty band put it on the pencils by twisting it so you get a figure eight or
an infinity sign. Now take a band with a bead, place it on top and pull the bottom band over
the top one, over the pencil and release. Since I added a band with a bead before, I
am now taking an empty band. Put it on the pencils and again pull the bottom band over
the top one. Push the bands down to get space for another layer. Take a beaded band again,
stretch it over the pencils and pull the bottom band over the top one on left and right. Time
for another empty band. See how I am alternating between bands with beads and empty bands.
I decided to pair green bands with pink beads, yellow bands with blue beads and pink bands
with yellow beads for beautiful pastel explosion. I am just moving between these three piles
of bands and beads making sure that I alternate between empty bands and bands with beads.
Continue doing this until your bracelet is long enough to fit your wrist. Just a final
band and it’s time to attach a c-clip. As with the previous bracelet, slide it on the
band loop on the right, take everything to the left and attach a c-clip on that band
loop too. Our bracelet is all done! I really like the combination of bands and beads and
I love the pastel colors I chose for this one. Looks like a candy bracelet to me!
If you don’t have any beads, you can totally make this bracelet by using bands only. Let
me show you how easy it is. Instead of making bead band pairs as before, wrap one band 3
or 4 times around another band like so. You can also do this with a help of a bobby pin
for example. Wrap the band 4 times around the pin. Take the other band, put it on top
of the pin and stretch. Then push the wrapped band on it like that.
Make the bracelet in the same way as before, except now instead of beaded bands you have
these two wrapped bands. Start by crossing an empty band, add a band with another band
wrapped and pull the bottom band over the top one on each side. Put on an empty band
and repeat. Take another wrapped band. Pull the bottom band over the top one on each side
and go on with an empty band again. Just continue alternating between wrapped bands and single
bands until the bracelet is long enough. And here's your finished bracelet. Looks just
as pretty as the beaded one. Let’s now make this cool looking two colored
chain bracelet. You will need two colors of bands and a clip. You can make this bracelet
using two fingers or using our DIY pencil loom. Put the blue band on the pencils by
twisting it like so. Add a pink band and another blue band on top. Now, on the right side pull
the pink band below the first blue one and pull that blue band over the top blue one,
making an inverse fishtail stitch. On the left make a normal fishtail stitch by pulling
the bottom blue band over the pencil. Add another pink band and make an inverse fishtail
stitch on the left this time. On the right make a fishtail stitch by pulling the bottom
pink band over. And just continue with this pattern. Put on a blue band, inverse fishtail
on the right, fishtail on the left. You need to alternate between fishtail and inverse
fishtail stitch. Let's see the steps slowly once again: Put on a blue band, make an inverse
stitch on the right and regular fishtail stitch on the left. Add a pink band and make an inverse
fishtail stitch on the left and regular fishtail stitch on the right. Go in with a blue band
again, make an inverse fishtail on the right and regular one on the left. After a while
you will see the bracelet growing between the pencils in a really cool way! I am putting
on my last band, making the inverse stitch on the right and the normal stitch on the
left. To finish this bracelet, pull the bottom band over the top one, so you are left with
only one band on the pencils. Take a c-clip and slide it on on the right side and then
on the left like that. Take the bracelet of the loom and look how beautiful it is. I love
how different this bracelet looks with two lines all along. Pretty awesome!
Next we are making this interesting knotted bracelet. You will need some bands, a c-clip
and a paper clip. Start by transforming a paper clip into a hook. First stretch it a
bit and then bend a short piece in like so. Place your first elastic on the pencils by
crossing it. Add two more rubber bands on top like so. Make a normal fishtail stitch
by pulling bottom band over top ones. Put on another band and again pull the bottom
band over top ones. Push the bands down and continue as if you were making a fishtail
bracelet. You can alternate two or more colors all along the bracelet, but this time I decided
to make larger parts of colors. First I had a red patch and now I am making a green one.
After four to five normal fishtail stitches, we need to grab the bottom band that we started
our bracelet with and pull it up through the middle of all other bands. For that, we need
to make space in the middle by pushing the bands out of the way. Then grab your most
bottom band and pull it up like so. Now just continue making normal fishtail stitches.
Add a band and pull the bottom band over the other two on each side and over the pencil.
From time to time you have to pull the bracelet up slightly so that it can continue growing.
Here we have our last band, put it on and grab the bottom band over. The bracelet is
long enough to fit my wrist so to finish it I have to pull the bottom band over the top
one so that I am left with only one band on my pencils. Take a c-clip, slide it on the
band on the right, repeat on the left side and release the bracelet off the loom. We
are all done with this different, but cute knotted bracelet. I Love how the different
colors make kind of a gradient effect. Looks pretty epic, don't you think?!
Lastly we are making this awesome detailed chevron rope bracelet. You will need a bunch
of bands and a c-clip. This bracelet requires a loom with four pins so let’s make one
using four pencils, a squared bottle of nail polish and a tape. Place pencils around the
polish bottle, one on each side and secure them in place with a tape. Just like that
and we have a four pin loom. All right let’s start with the first band. Place it on the
pencils and twist it several times until you get this perfect square in the middle of the
loom. See, you need to have a twist beside each pencil. Put the second band on and now
we have to pull the bottom band over the top one and over each of the four pencils. The
first band is very tight because of all the crosses but after that pulling is way easier.
Push the bands down and add another layer. Again pull the bottom band over the top one
on all four corners. After a while the bracelet will start forming here inside and it will
look amazing, just saying. So let's continue adding bands and pulling the bottom band over
the top one. I am alternating between red, yellow and blue bands for fun, colorful bracelet.
By the way, how cute are these pencils?! Love them! Here comes my last band. As I pulled
the bottom blue band over the red one the bracelet is long enough for me. To secure
the bracelet, stretch the band from one of the pencils to the opposite one and go below
the band on that opposite pencil. Do the same with the other two opposite pencils. Slide
the clip on the top band of one pencil and on the top band of the other pencil. Now we
can take the bracelet of the loom and see how pretty this rope bracelet looks. Absolutely
spectacular! I love the chevron details all around it and the colors make the bracelet
so happy and fun. It’s a real party bracelet! And that's it for today's tutorial. Let me
know what you think about these band bracelets. I must say that I haven't tried to make them
before, because I thought that they were more for kids, but last couple of weeks I've been
kind of obsessed with making them and I just think they are so much fun. And you guys know
that I'm a big kid so it's perfect for me. Okay, I hope you enjoyed the video and if
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I love you and I'll see you soon. Bye! All these five bracelets were so easy and
fast to make but look adorable in the end. And what I love the most with the band bracelets
is that when you get tired of one bracelet design, you can simply take the bands apart
and make new designs out of the same bands. This way you can have a new bracelet every
day!