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1. Ankara Bangle Making Introduction: Hello and welcome to my
class on how to Make Ankara fabric bangles
from scratch. My name is Adaobi. I'm your instructor
for this class. I'm a fashion designer. I've been designing
for many years. I enjoy making crafts, sewing different things,
as well as embroidery. And this is what we'll
be making in this class. Ankara bangles made out of
Ankara African print fabric. This is a class structure
for this class. The first lesson video
is Introduction video, which we are currently on, which you give you a
summary of what to expect in this class and
the features of this class. After that, we'll be moving
into the second lesson video, where I'll show you
the list of materials used to make anchor
Fabric Bangles, as well as the processes to bend the wire that will be used, and the process to start
wrapping the fabric on the wire. After that, we'll move into
the third lesson videos. Well, continuous steps. I'll show you how to continue wrapping the fabric on the wire, as well as the steps to finish up your Ankara fabric bangles. And the fourth lesson video, we'll look at overview
of the Class Project for your Ankara bangles and the last and final video Lesson five, I'll show you the finished
look and Conclusion parts of the Ankara
Bangle Making class. Again, this is what we'll
be making in this class. Ankara bangles. Note that this is a No sew DIY Ankara fabric
Bangle Making class, which means when making this beautiful Ankara
accessories without sewing. Key skills you'll
learn in this class. In this class, you'll
learn creative skill. Here, you will learn how
to re-imagine our repos, a basic items like copper
wire into the Bangle. You will also learn
simple soy skills. In this class, I'll
show you the basics sewing techniques
on how to measure and cut out fabric
pattern pieces from scratch to use for your
Ankara Bangle Making. You also gain technical
skills in this class, where I'll show you
easy fabric wrapping and manipulation techniques, which you can easily
use and apply in your Ankara bangle
making process. And lastly, you and
crafting skills. I'll show you how to
add our walk with simple crafting
supplies and tools to create unique Ankara
fabric bangles skill level for this class, this class is ideal for beginners because the
easiest steps and visuals in this class are easy and straightforward
for you to follow. And there's also a PDF sewing pattern
template I provided for you that you can use for your clotting
process and you can access it in this section
below this video. However, individuals
with intermediate to advanced crafting or sewing skills who
want to refresh your knowledge on the basic
can as well join this class, has no prior crafting or
sewing skills is required. Only the will to learn
and have creative font. Other ways you can apply the skills you will
learn in this class. You can use the steps and
techniques you will learn in this class to make the basic
types of fabric bangles, as well as other
fabric accessories that involve the use of a Wire, such as Ankara fabric hoop, earrings, Ankara fabric
rings, and so on. It all depends on
your imagination, your creativity, and your
chosen style, what design. This class is ideal for? Fashion and sewing enthusiasts, ads and craft lovers, Students, freelancers,
Art and the printers, fashion designers, hobbyists,
artists, beginners, or any creative or curious
individual who wants to acquire new creative or
crafting skills or techniques. What you will learn from this class by the
end of this course, you'll be equipped with
skills to confidently create fashionable Ankara
fabric bangles to use for your own Ankara
accessories collection. You will also learn the measurement and
the steps to cutout the fabric pieces
you'll be working with to make the
Ankara fabric bangles. Also, in this class, you will learn a
simple fabric wrapping and manipulation
technique that will help you easily cover up the copper wire that you'll be using to make your
Ankara Bangle. Furthermore, you will
learn how to use a cylindrical or round object, or it can easily bend
the copper wire and get a circular shape
bangle that will fit your wrist and for
your Ankara bangles. And finally, In the latter
part of this class, you'll see the finished
and final looks of a model wearing the finished
Ankara fabric bangles. If you are in need of a phone, indoor activity to try at home, or you just have ideas
for a crafts project, or you just interested in
learning how to create stylish Ankara fabric
bangles and accessories, and you need guidance. This class will easily
get you started. In the next video, Lesson two, we'll begin making our
Ankara fabric bangles, and I'll begin to walk you
through the steps and the list of materials used to make
your Ankara bangles, I will show you how to
measure and cut out the fabric pieces
that will used to make an Ankara fabric bangles. Now see in the
next lesson videos
2. Materials used in this class, The Wire Bending and Wraping Technique: Welcome to the second
lesson video of this class. In this part of the class, I'll be showing you
the materials used in this project and all
start making our car Bangle by walking you
through the steps to bend and wrap the copper wire that will be using
for the Bangle. And these are the list of
materials used in this project. I got you can use when creating your Ankara
Bangle project. Now first material
on the list to start off with any
cylindrical or round, circular shaped
object, you can use big can scenes or
plastic container. That's our big
enough in size and circumference to fit your wrist. Next on the list is all
purpose adhesive or glue gun can use any of
that bowl for this project. Next is the copper wire. We are using size copper
wire for this project. And of course, your
Ankara fabric. You can use any colour
of Ankara fabric or style of Ankara
fabric that you want. And this is what
we'll be making. Ankara fabric bangles. This is what the
Ankara fabric bangles will look like at the
end of this class. When I'm done showing
you the steps of making. Now in step one, we take our copper wire, we're going to stretch it
out unexpanded as we begin to work with the Ankara bangle became after stretching it out, take your cylindrical
object and begin to wrap the copper wire around the body of the
cylindrical object, or can continue wrapping the copper wire around
the cylindrical object. Notes that this
copper wire is thick, able to bend and
stay in shape as you wrap it around the
cylindrical object using your hands after you have
done wrapping it around the cylindrical
object and both edges of the copper wire
have met each other. They took out the copper wire from the cylindrical object. Or you will notice that
a copper wire has taken the shape of circular
cylindrical object. And now the copper wire is starting to look nice and round. Next tick a sharp scissors, and then make a mark
on the copper wire, about half an inch or one of the edges of the copper wire. After making a slight map, then using your hand, begin to bend the
copper wire slightly and repeated on that
same Max Sport. As you continue to bend, the wire becomes brittle
and the wire snaps right? Or as you can see in
the video after that, set aside excess copper wire. And this is what
we're going to have a circular shape
copper wire that will be using to
make a Ankara bank. Now moving on to the next step, which is step to
cutout the piece of Ankara fabric WWE Walking we
from the main bulk fabric, as you can see individually, I've gone ahead to cutout the pieces of
fabric that will be working with out of the
main bulk and craft fabric. This particular piece I'm
working with and I cutout earlier is half an inch width
wise and then length wise, it is 7 " in length. Next, using the all
purpose adhesive glue or glue gun and your glue, you take your glue and
then please switch small glue and at one of the
edges of the copper wire, then take the piece of Ankara, fireball one edge of fabric, and then place it on top
of the glute copper wire. Then you proceed to begin
to wrap the piece of fabric around the copper
wire as she wrapped the copper wire with
their car fabric. Notice that you second-hand
should be holding the already wrapped side of
Ankara fabric down place. This will help prevent the already wrapped areas of the copper wire
from loosening up. As I continue to wrap a piece of Ankara fabric around
the entire copper wire, continued to repeat
the process of adding more glue on the
rest of the areas of the copper wire and
then proceeds to wrap the copper wire with a fabric right on top of the
blue copper wire. Note that the more glue you add, the more it helps to
keep the fabric and play continued to wrap my repeat this process of glue in there, wrapping the Ankara
fabric on top of the copper wire and the blue while using your
secondhand hold, your previous wrap and
craft fabrics are for along the copper wire in place so well we continue wrapping. Join me in the next
video, Lesson three, as we will continue
the Wraping process, and I'll show you the
steps are finishing up the Ankara bangles neatly in
the next video lesson. Now seeing the next
video Lesson three
3. The Wire Wraping Technique continued and Ankara Bangle finishing process: Welcome to the total Lesson
video of this class. It is part of the class, will be continuing to fabric
wrapping process here. And I'll also show you
the steps to finish up the Ankara bangles in the
later part of this class, now continued the next step, which is step three, container fabric
wrapping process. Keep wrapping the Ankara fabric on and along the
copper wire node. The more glue you add
onto the copper wire, the more it will help keep
the previous rapidly as of Ankara fabric to stay
please on the copper wire. Repeat the process of wrapping the fabric and then
gluing while using the secondhand to maintain
the folded fabric or the rough part of the fabric on the Wire and more
glue as needed. And after putting the glue, grab the fabric right on top
and over the glue nodes, that each subsequent
fabric wrapping along the wire must be layered slightly on top of the previous layer of Ankara
fabric that was wrapped. This is to help ensure
that there is no space in between each layer of Ankara fabric wrap
on top of the Wire. After that, keep
wrapping onto you get the second edge of
the copper wire. Now, moving on to the
next step, step four. Now the average, the second
edge of the copper wire, I now want to join the two
edges of the copper wire here together and then cover
it up the meeting point. Finish up this bank. To begin
the finishing up process, I first bend both edges of the copper wire to
meet each other. Slide. Then I put
glue on both edges of the copper wire and then bend it again properly to
meet each other. And then simultaneously wrap
the Ankara fabric on top of the meeting points and edges of the two glued edges
of the copper wire. As you can see, we're
wrapping it right on top of the glute meeting point of the two edges of
the copper wire, I add more glue to ensure that the rock layers
in place and then continuously wrap Ankara
fabric right on top of the glute point and go to pop the meeting points
of the copper wire. Continue gluing and then
Wraping Ankara fabric right on top or to cover up
the bad more glue as needed. And didn't finish
off by wrapping the fabric right on
top of the glue. After that, I cutout any
leftover fabric from the Wraping process
using a scissors and then trim any
leftover treads, sticky notes, or row
edges sticking out. I add more glue to any
row edges sticky now and then press the glue and
Ankara fabric in place. If there any row edges In out, I use my scissors to trim out any excess raw edges
sticking out on the curb. And then we have our finished Ankara
fabric bangles is ready. Very colorful, very nice. Ankara fabric bangles. You can use any Ankara fabric color or style or fabric type to get different colors
and different patterns for Ankara fabric Bangle accessories can now go ahead to try on your finished Ankara bangles on your risks to ensure
it fits into yours. After that, join me as I continue this class
in the next video, Lesson Four, where
I'll be walking you through the steps of
your Class Projects, seeing the next
video, Lesson four
4. Overview of the Class Project for Ankara Bangles Making: Overview of the Ankara
bangles Class Project. Your class project is
to follow the steps in the class videos and make your
own Ankara fabric bangles. You can use the PDF
pre-designed sewing patterns I provided as a guide when cutting out your fabric and
when making your work, you can find the PDF
pattern template in the attachment link below this video for your
download I'm printing. This is how the attached
PDF pattern template will look like after
downloading a grantee needs and assembling the
pages together for the clotting
process and Making of your Ankara fabric bangles to access the PDF template pattern, simply click the project
and resources tab below this video and then click the link for the
pattern template. Download this pattern options and insights for
your class project, you can choose to use the provided attached PDF
Bangle pattern template, or you can choose not to use
it when making your project. If you want to
measure and cutout the fabric pattern pieces for the Ankara bangles from scratch. Then go ahead and
follow the first step in the lesson video
two of this class. There you will see the measuring
and cutting process to get the fabric pattern pieces you'll be walking
with from scratch. Another option and insights for your Ankara Bangle
class projects, you'll notice that
I use glue gun in this class to stick and
join fabric pieces, layers together where
wrapping the copper wire. However, you can
alternatively use any glue of your choice. You can use an all purpose
adhesive glue to stick and join the fabric layers together instead of a glue gun
and a glue stick, as I showed you in
the class videos. Now, moving into the steps
of the Class Project, one, download the attached
per-drawn PDF bangle making pattern
template unto your device to print out the template using a regular
printer and a4 paper. Then afterwards, use a glue, join the paper pages
together if needed, three, you can duplicate the template
by tracing the lines and silhouette of the
printed pattern template unto a fresh sheet of paper. Step is optional for follow the steps in the class we
use to create along with me. If you choose not to use a PDF pattern
template I provided, then start from the beginning
of the video lessons to measure and cut as you
fabric pieces from scratch. Kindly refer to
video lessons to, for the list of
materials I used to make the Ankara
bangles respectively, five share your finished
projects by posting and uploading pictures of your
work on the project gallery. And then six, finally, feel free to revisit
the lesson videos. You can pause, speed
it up, rewind, or slow down the speed to get a better understanding
before moving on to the next steps
in this class. Suggestions for a
successful Class Project. One, use the caret materials and tools as I showed you
in the lesson videos of this class to prepare
workspace before you get started on making your
Ankara fabric bangles, gather all your supplies
and tools and lay them out to make the
process smoother. Three, don't be afraid
to make mistakes. Relax, use your imagination
and have creative font. Now that we have covered
all the steps of your class projects
and all the steps are making your Ankara
fabric bangles. Join me in the next
video, Lesson five. Well be concluding this class
and I'll be showing you the final looks of the
Ankara fabric bangles, which we just created. Now seeing a next and
final lesson video five
5. Final look and Conclusion of Ankara Bangle Making: Welcome to the fifth lesson, videos and Conclusion
part of this class. I'm super happy you
made it this far. This is the final looks of the Ankara fabric Bank earlier
created in this class. And now that we are
successfully don't Ankara fabric Bangle
keen process, we go ahead and try on our
Ankara fabric bangles. And this is how
the Ankara bangles will look like on a model. And this is how the
Ankara fabric bangles we'll also look like when paired with other types of Ankara fabric
accessories as you can. And how to look like
after trying it to own important
tips for this class, which will also help
you when making your class project
tip number one, if you are using a sewing
pattern template or the attached PDF bangle
making pattern template I provided for you first ensure
that you read the pattern and understand the pattern
details carefully first. And then after reading
and understanding it, it's important to gather
every sewing and crafting supply or tools that you
need for the project. This tip is important
as stopping your work because
you do not have what you need are all the supplies
you will need to make your Ankara Bangle
will only cause frustration and lower
your productivity. That suggested tips
for your action in your class project tip number to try using other
colors of fabrics, shred of fabric types other than what was
you in this class. This will help you
add variation to your bangles design
tip number three, you can also vary the size of your Ankara bangles when
making it bigger or smaller, simply use a thicker or
thinner copper wire chord or a rope when making your car bangles to vary
the size of your bank. And final tip number four, feel free to revisit
the lesson videos. You can pause it,
speeded up or slow it down all to get a
better understanding of the class before moving to each lesson videos or the next section or
steps of the class. Recap of the key
takeaways of this class. Now that we have come to
the end of this class, I have shown you and
you have learned the simple fabric wrapping
techniques that will help you easily cover all the copper wire when
making you Ankara fabric bank, I also showed you how to
measure and the steps to cutout the fabric
pieces for your Ankara. But we also covered how
to use a cylindrical, round or circular shape object that you can
find around you to easily bend your
copper wires and get a circular shape
bangle for you. In the latter and final
part of this class, I showed you the
finished and final looks of the Ankara bangle on a model and how to look
like when you wear and put on your finished
Ankara bangles. It is what it to nodes that
you can follow my step to create exactly what was made
in this class, however, feel free to change any part of the crafting process as it will help you add variation
to your fabric, Ankara Bangle designs and
showcase your creativity. Now we just concluded
all the steps on how to Make Ankara
fabric bangles, definitely trials what
you have learned in this class and try out
your class project. And I encourage you to please
share your finished work, all your work process by posting pictures of
the final look of your work or your class project on the project gallery
below this video. Once again, my name is
adaobi Obiefuna and I am your instructor
for this class on how to Make Ankara
fabric bangles. Thank you again for
joining this class. I hope you enjoyed it
or found it useful.
Adaobi Obiefuna, Designer
