Lanyard Help Requested, Please...

[TXAG]

I appreciate your posting the details on this for me very much...unfortunately, I cannot understand the grid diagrams...at least not yet. I haven't been able to find an explanation of how they work that makes sense to me.

I will try to study it until it makes sense though...I'll try putting it on a TP tube and see if I can get it then. Wish I could just find a simple O/U formula for adding a different color...

Edited November 10, 2013 by TXAG

[fancye9876]

I can't follow those graphs yet either. Seems nothing is simple. I have the Marlinspike Knot Works DVD and it is the simpliest I have found. He does an interweave with a second color. I also have Gail's book The Art Of Braiding Revised. I found her instructions hard to follow but finally managed to get the pinapple knot figured out and then the interweave was not to bad. I still have to look at the instructions even after making a dozen or so. One mistake messes the whole thing up. Have had to start over 4 times on one knot but got it done. I also would like to figure out how to do interweaves using more than one color for the interweave.

[skyout]

I learned a lot from the late Dan Alaska's tuts.

http://pineappleknot...icles-blog.html

Edited November 10, 2013 by skyout

[KnotHead]

Following a grid is just like keeping the colors you use in a coloring book inside the lines, or building a train track and putting the train on the track, or placing a hot wheel on a rubber/plastic track and pushing it down the track, or even better; doing a dot to dot drawing like in the old dot to dot booklets. Just wrap the grid around a postal tube, or toilet paper tube and then follow the lines from one point to the other.

Brian...

[GrampaJoel]

What knot head said. Put the grid around a tube it fits, and the grid map usually becomes pretty clear.

[TXAG]

Following a grid is just like keeping the colors you use in a coloring book inside the lines, or building a train track and putting the train on the track, or placing a hot wheel on a rubber/plastic track and pushing it down the track, or even better; doing a dot to dot drawing like in the old dot to dot booklets. Just wrap the grid around a postal tube, or toilet paper tube and then follow the lines from one point to the other.

Brian...

Well. I was able to tie a couple of patterns without having to resort to that grid thing. Received instructions using simple over/under explanations and it worked fine. I'll post pics of proof later.

[TXAG]

Again, I am stuck having to make a new post instead of editing my old one due to the restrictively short edit buffer.

Here is one of the knots I made without the grid thing...(and the lace is some junky quality 3/32" roo lace I got from Springfield Leather. It is very dry and doesn't lay right (to me)...guess I was spoiled by the quality of the first roo lace (drum stuffed) I bought from a guy in Australia...)

Edited November 12, 2013 by TXAG

[fancye9876]

I like the pattern

[TXAG]

Thanks...I am partial to the chevron pattern also.

I made a "barber pole" pattern last night too, but it is at home. I'll probably add a pic of it later today...

[TXAG]

Made this with roo lace I cut...