Welcome to steam for tweens.  I am miss
Nathalie from the Harding County Public
Library.
This week we're going to make a bracelet.
We're going to use
scrap material from packages (plastic strap) and yarn
and we're going to weave a name.
To make it easy on yourself I would
suggest that you take a paper
and you write down the word that you
want on your bracelet.
I'm just going to take my name.
There are different ways that you
can do certain letters.
You can write it down
like this or you can make it like that.
This is going to be the easier way
so I would suggest that in the beginning
you just make it easier yourself
and you choose the easier shape of
letters.
Like with an i you can choose to do
with a dot or without.
I'm going to do it this time without
a dot on the eye.
The other way would be... (A is written with sloped sides)
If you write it down you already have a
visual of
how how you're going to weave your yarn.
So I have eight (pieces of yarn). It's important that you know
how many pieces of yarn you have.
You're going to see me do this a lot of
times. This is to make sure that my
wires don't get crossed. And then you
start with your
other color. Then you start with your
other color.
The start is the most difficult. I'm
putting a piece like this at the back
and then i start going
over my gold and over the piece
in the back. Pull it tight.
(nope you have to go here)
And do this a few times.
Now if you have a short name
like Anna the prettiest is when your name is
in the center, so either you make your
plastic real short or you
you wrap it around a few times until...
For Anna i would like start here. So you
wrap it around here. And here is where
you start with your letter
Now Nathalie, it's eight letters, so
I'm going to start right here. You can
always cut off a piece at the end
if it's not really centered.
Okay.
How it works... So with the end,
I want this piece to be visible
so I'm going to move them backwards and I'm going to wrap it around.
I'm going to do it
two times i think.
Yes, two times and now
I'm going to have to make this sloped
line.
So that means
that these two
top ones are going to... No i'm going to
take three top ones,
are going to stay visible and these
are going to be hidden. So black (marker) is visible.
The white (paper) here is going to be covered. So I'm going to
cover these
I'm going to move two back
and i'm going to take two new ones.
Make sure that they stay in order
and i'm going to cover those.
Pull it tight.
I'm going to move
that one back.
And i'm going to take a new one.
I am going to cover the rest.
I always keep my finger here so my blue
wire doesn't unravel.
Okay so the top one goes back.
Now to be honest the letters N
and K, and what else, Z.
Those are the really hard ones.
Put them like that. You're already going
to get a little visual about how it's
going to look like.
Now for my last line
I'm going to flip them all back and go
under there.
Two times.
And then to finish the end.
I'm going to put them all back.
Make sure they are in order.
And go over them. I'm going to
make three lines between the letters.
one two
three
And this is how you make a letter.
Now for the next A (remember i'm not
going to make this one
i'm going to cross them out)
I'm going to make an A that way
so that means putting it all back.
Going under there twice.
Then this line and this line needs to be
visible.
That means that the two top ones are
going
back. The two below that
are going to be covered so they go
here.
The next two ones are going to be visible
so they're going to be flipped back.
And these are going to be covered too.
And i'm going to go over them three
times.
two
three. And then the last piece of the A
is going to be all visible, so I flip
everything back
and go under them twice.
And when I flip them all back and put
them all in order...
I have a letter A
Remember between the letters i'm going
to do three.
and A (is ready).
For the T same principle. So this line is
going to be visible.
I'm taking two
and flipping them back.
The rest is hidden, so I'm
covering them with blue.
And doing that let's see...
Two times? Three, three times.
And then in the middle everything is
visible.
So you flip everything back go around
twice.
You flip these back.
But not these because they have to stay
visible.
one
Now this is going to start cramping up
real bad. If you want to take a break,
make sure that you
have like a clothespin or something
laying around,
which you can pin on here, so you can
rest for a while
and it doesn't come loose. I did
three in between the letters.
N A T
Then for the H everything is visible.
So two, then
this and this will be covered. Only a
line in the middle.
So since I have eight, I'm going to do
three on top that are going to be
covered.
Two in the middle that are going to stay
visible
and three at the bottom.
So if you have more wires, because your
yarn is thinner or your plastic is wider,
you're going to have to change those
numbers.
And i'm going to do this
three times.
Everything is visible so you flip
everything back.
You go over under them twice
you flip everything back.
Make sure they're in the same order.
and three times
oh other way around
 
 
Now to finish make sure you have
almost as much covered on the end
as on the beginning.
Cut off your yarn.
And I usually finish by
going over my finger,
putting it under
and through and pulling it tight.
Now put a little school glue
on the yarn at both ends so they don't
come loose.
And you can cut this off make sure you
don't
cut your
your yarn and the same on the other side.
And you made yourself a bracelet
and when it's all dry like this one,
you can wrap it around your wrist. You're gonna need someone's help...
and make a knot and tie it.
I hope you had fun creating your
bracelets.
We do have other books in the library
about creating
bracelets. If you don't have the material
yourself to make these bracelets
you can come and get a craft bag at the
Elizabethtown branch
If you prefer to pick it up at the
Radcliff branch email me
and i will have one sent there. I hope I
see you next week.
