#finger loop braiding

[pardalote]

I made a komebukuro! I don't have a sewing machine, so I love things I can sew by hand. I roughly followed a tutorial by k3n clothtales on youtube but did the piecing the 'jude hill' way, because that's what I'm used to. I used a 6 loop fingerbraid to make the cords. I am super happy with it, and I'm already onto number 2 :D

[greco-roman-jewess]

Me: has a free afternoon

Me: spends six hours finger loop braiding

Me: wow this is so fun I wish I could do this on Shabbos. Why is something I enjoy so much not allowed on the day of rest.

*40 minutes later*

My Arm: the agoooony! The pain! Why has father Ibuprofen forsaken uuuuus!

Me: OOooh thaaats why!

[robogill]

Behold my idle hands, boy

[pseuddamntired]

Hey can I just point people to a very cool very easy fiber art featuring

Barely any special equipment! (Unless you want to like. Have a bit more stability)

cool patterns, including lettering!!

flexible weaving style!

historical context!! Nuns did this! And iron age people! You can see people doing this in illustrations!

can make really quite delicate work on just your fingers

it’s finger loop braiding, it’s cool

this is a website I learned from but there’s other ones out there

Loop Braiding

A no-equipment technique for braiding cords and bands

I made my lanyard for my keys using this.

[justgarb]

Now THIS ONE has some pop. Might have to make it bigger. Will see. Kind of looks like fire, or the sun

[alexsrandomramblings]

Dangerous book.

[justgarb]

Playing around and figured out I can make my fingerloop braids into neat spirals. Not sure what else I can do with this but I bet I can get rid of the big tassle on the yule hat and bring it back down to more medieval/fantasy and less mongolian

[justgarb]

Hat trim testing a finger loop braid. The one on the left will be much more visible in the dim light around the fire during those late evening yule feasts.