Color linking in a flat 7-loop braid part 1

Описание: Part 1. For clear, close-up photos of these and other braids made with color-linking, view this video on my Loop Braiding website/blog:
http://loopbraider.com/2013/09/30/col...

See below for a clickable timeline/ table of contents to the video.

If you have questions, it's easier to contact me on my website than here on youtube, there seem to be problems with youtube/ google+ now -- I don't always get notified of comments on my videos through youtube anymore. Comments work fine on the website, under every post. Or you can email me from the 'contact' tab in the top menu.

0:30 Showing the various color-patterns in my sample braid that can be made with the same loop color set-up.
1:07 New technique: Color linking
1:30 How to arrange the loops on the fingers for this braid (2 black, 2 white, 3 bicolor loops)
2:50 Explanation of the braiding moves for a flat braid with color-linking
3:11 Braiding starts
4:25 Braiding moves explained, and continued
8:40 Showing the braid

The next video in this series (part 2) shows another pattern that can be made in this braid, by linking ONLY at the boundary between the right hand's two black loops and the other loops in the braid. (No linking will be done on the left hand loops.):
   • Color linking in a flat 7-loop braid part 2  
The third video shows another color-pattern and teaches another color-linking technique for bicolor loops only:
   • Color linking in a flat 7-loop braid part 3  

Color-linking is a way to manipulate the colors in your braid, instead of letting the colors follow the natural course that they would normally take in a braid. In part 1, I show how to use color-linking on both sides of a 7-loop braid to keep 4 colors in separate columns in the braid.

Color-linking is an extra braiding technique that gives the braider the ability to create or manipulate patterns. Learn my "Continue here: 7-loop square and flat braids" tutorial first for the basic braiding moves.

My loop braiding website/ blog has color pattern set-ups for many more flat 7-loop braids not shown on my youtube channel: go to loopbraider.com and click on my Tutorials tab in the top menu:
http://loopbraider.com/