And so begins another hobby

[revchris]

teeka has decided to learn Kumihimo, so one of my today projects was to build a marudai. The mirror disk is a 10" x 1.5" semi-concave pine disk that was originally going to become the drive wheel for a small Charkha-style spinning wheel (I have two more disks, so Charkhas may still happen), and the stand is a bed-side table (I took the top off, and we're just using the support arm) we came up with years ago that was gathering junk in the basement.

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Any of those options are probably acceptable.

From the book that Maggs had, basic braiding (8-cord, round or square patterns) isn't hard, as there's only a few basic moves.

Once you start getting up into the 20-cord 32-move patterns (which I have read about online but not seen the directions for), then, yes, it probably is complicated.

If you ask nice, we might let you try out (or, rather, let us try them out on you :) ) some of what she's made by then.

My peeps tell me that there are two Hispanic grocery stores in Madison that might have Ironbeer. I'll check them out Saturday when I'm running errands.

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*squeeee*!!!!! Oh, you make with the happy in many many ways.....

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