Ingrid Crickmore | Bracelet, pt. 4 - another chevron+stripes pattern @loopbraider | Uploaded June 2012 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Demos another chevron pattern--5 bicolor loops and 2 single-color contrast loops. First, long demo showing how to set up the braid, using doubled strands to form your loops. Start at 24:15 to skip this part, and just see the color pattern and braiding.
0:00 Intro
1:28 problem of having an odd # of bicolor loops for the no-ends start--will leave 2 ends at top of the braid.
3:48 Using double-thick strands of embroidery floss to avoid this problem.
6:45 Making the one "odd" single-length bicolor loop that will only have loose ends at one end.
9:30 Making the double-length loops (one gold and two bicolor)
3:16 Linking the left set of loops with the right set of loops.
15:22 The "no header-cord" method of suspending the loops to braid the 2 halves of the starting loop.
17:35 Ready to braid the left half--for a short section of 4-loop square braid.
19:04 Laying down the first short section, preparing to braid the other section (also with no header cord) as a 3-loop braid.
24:15 Color arrangement on the fingers for this pattern: bicolor loops on the two hands should have the opposite colors in upper position on the fingers.
25:44 Starting braiding
25:57 Halfway thru first pattern repeat, loops have switched hands--time to tighten well to 'set' the starting loop firmly onto the main braid. Fussy tighten at this point.
27:14 Noticing that one side of the loop got braided a little longer than the other.
This is why the loops on that side turned out to be slightly shorter than the other loops!
Not too bad here, but wouldn't want them any shorter. Try to aim for both sides of the loop-start being equal in length.
28:44 Braiding.
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Demos another chevron pattern--5 bicolor loops and 2 single-color contrast loops. First, long demo showing how to set up the braid, using doubled strands to form your loops. Start at 24:15 to skip this part, and just see the color pattern and braiding.
0:00 Intro
1:28 problem of having an odd # of bicolor loops for the no-ends start--will leave 2 ends at top of the braid.
3:48 Using double-thick strands of embroidery floss to avoid this problem.
6:45 Making the one "odd" single-length bicolor loop that will only have loose ends at one end.
9:30 Making the double-length loops (one gold and two bicolor)
3:16 Linking the left set of loops with the right set of loops.
15:22 The "no header-cord" method of suspending the loops to braid the 2 halves of the starting loop.
17:35 Ready to braid the left half--for a short section of 4-loop square braid.
19:04 Laying down the first short section, preparing to braid the other section (also with no header cord) as a 3-loop braid.
24:15 Color arrangement on the fingers for this pattern: bicolor loops on the two hands should have the opposite colors in upper position on the fingers.
25:44 Starting braiding
25:57 Halfway thru first pattern repeat, loops have switched hands--time to tighten well to 'set' the starting loop firmly onto the main braid. Fussy tighten at this point.
27:14 Noticing that one side of the loop got braided a little longer than the other.
This is why the loops on that side turned out to be slightly shorter than the other loops!
Not too bad here, but wouldn't want them any shorter. Try to aim for both sides of the loop-start being equal in length.
28:44 Braiding.
Thanks for watching my video!
Click on 'loopbraider' under the video to see my other videos.
Check out my Loop Braiding website/blog for more tutorials, photos, general info:
loopbraider.com (homepage)
loopbraider.com/tutorials (links to the tutorials)
