VIDEO: Christmas tree ball with loom rings

Arrange the rings for the Christmas tree ball on the loom 

1. Lay your loom in front of you with the tenons offset, the openings facing away from you. For the ball, use the bottom 6 pegs in the first two rounds, which form a circle around the middle peg.
2. In the first round you always tighten 2 rings. For your Christmas tree ball, you start a double ring crossed from 1. left pin diagonally to the 2nd to tighten the right pivot. The cross is in front of the central pivot. In a mirror-like manner, clamp another double ring from the 1st right to the 2nd left pivot. A 3. Tension the double ring from 1. middle to 3rd middle tenon. Make sure that the cross is in front of the center peg of the circle here too.
3. Now place individual rings around the pegs, always in the outer circle a total of 6 rubber rings from the 1st middle to 1. left pin, from 1. left to the 2nd left pin, from 2. left to 3rd middle pin, etc. until you return on 1. middle cones arrive.
4. Now pull the two lower rings over each peg from the outside.
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5. Now expand the pattern upwards. Pull the two rings from the top center pin past the pin onto the next following pin. On 2. left peg, lift the rings onto the needle, place the lower ring on the 3. left peg and the top ring back. On the right side, place the top ring from the 2nd Pin on the 3. Cones.
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6. Now follows a set of patterns that you knot a total of 5 times for your Christmas tree ball. Tighten a ring from the 1st middle to 1. left, from 1. middle to 1. right, from 1. left to the 2nd left, from 2. left to 3rd left, from 3rd left to 4th middle, from 4th middle to 3rd right, from 3. right to the 2nd right, from 2. right to 1. right pivot. The rings of all tenons are covered in such a way that 2 rings always remain on the tenon. You should pay particular attention to this in the first run, as sometimes only 1 ring was left as a basis for the extensions.

If you use a different color of rings for each pass, your ball will get a pattern.

Close the Christmas tree ball made of loom rings 

After you have laid out all the pattern sets for your Christmas tree ball made of loom rings, you can now close the ball. There are 2 variants for this.

1. One by one, pick up the remaining rings on the crochet hook and carefully pull everything off the loom. You can still see a small opening. Carefully pour in your filling here. Now take another ring and pull all rings from the needle onto it and close the ring.
2. If all the rings on your Christmas tree ball are still stretched on the loom, you can already see how a small bulge arises. Carefully place your filling material on top of it and take the rings one after the other on your crochet hook and at the same time enclose the filling material in it. Now all you need to do is pull all the rings off the needle over another ring and close everything tightly.

A few unevenness of your Christmas tree ball made of loom rings can be evened out a little by rolling between your fingers or by plucking them into place.