setting up for a new disk braid, 11feb23:

• 16 strands of #5 perl cut approx 12-1/4’
• Just barely fits on the bobbins. spent about an hour warping them while traveling to an old friend's house;
• then braided off and on that eve., (during the party)
• approx 4–6 inch total.

Had to look up kongoh, was originally thinking broken diamonds, except I have no idea how to keiruko no himo on the disk, & had forgotten I only do kongo on disk. Whoops! —Regular diamonds are a pattern that can be done with the kongoh structure, but I didn't set up the colourway for that.

• 1315
• 4090 “golden oasis” 3856;3855;745;3823
• 4110 “sunrise” 3708;3341;3824;967
• 4160 “glistening pearl” 818; 3770; 746;3865
• all on sale for $1.97 ea.

22mar23: while waiting around at dr's office, tried changing the pattern. Made a single (1/2 a pair/alternating light/dark) stripe, still ugly. Switched to blocks of 4/4/4/4 of dark/light blocks resulting in 2-band spiralling stripe—much better!

I was in Japan from roughly mid-April to mid-May, which is when I did the bulk of this braid.

In between I managed to step on or otherwise get the beginning of the braid very dirty, so I tried washing it with dish detergent, which was...more or less successful.

You can see the original pattern very clearly in these photos.

Then it took me another six months, very nearly to the day, to sight the braid hanging up (i.e. find it) & measure the length. Whew! What fuss for something so ugly: yeah, this was one of those that looked good as individual hanks, but just wasn't when braided. C'est la vie.

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