boaty said:
It's such a simple knot to tie neatly ..snip:
Now I look at the illustration, I think I know that knot. It's what my grandmother called "finger knitting".
I've tied this in 1/4" hemp rope to make handles for bags and slings for carrying logs.
boaty said:
Ahh, a chip off the old block - excellent!! Do you find that, if you're sitting down when the kids are around, fooling around knotting stuff, that they're straight over and want some cord to play with too? Mine don't give me a moment's peace
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My son loves the "magic knots"; pull them tight, then jerk them tighter and they disappear
): I've got a 50 metre drum of hemp rope waiting for a tree house project that I've been wanting to get started for a couple of years. Next summer, both my kids will be old enough to "help"
My mother-in-law saw me messing with a bit of string, tying monkey's fists, clover leaves, lucky charm knots, and braids, and commented that it was lke watching her father messing with string after he'd retired from the merchant navy.
Keith.