So, I was a bit confused the other day when I opened my much awaited package of hemp that I ordered from Simple-pleasures-4-u. I love ordering my hemp from there because I always get my package super fast and they have awesome prices and selections as well, :) not to mention the lady who owns the shop is SUPER nice and hand-writes notes (who doesn't love that!?).
Anyway, I was confused because my hemp "looked" different from my previous orders of hemp, but it wasn't until I got them side-by-side that I realized where I had fumbled. Even with all my years on Ebay I still mess up from time to time, but this was going to be interesting; finding a use for all this very thin .5mm (10lb) hemp. Little did I know fate would step in the next day when a friend sent me a picture of a para cord bracelet and asked if I could make him one out of hemp? Me: "YES! :)xInfinity" (I love when friends and family ask me to make stuff, like my cousin Pam who has a wedding in October [I better get making shoe-clips and hair facilitators]...another post, another day perhaps). Back to the story (I stray much and often, my apologies) so I had to fashion me a way of making some thicker hemp. Anyway, here's how I did just that...
Plying-Up Your Hemp:
1. Cut the core piece that you will be working with, the finished product in this example was 8", so let's assume the starting length was 12" (this leaves room for knotting).
2. Rule of thumb when working with Hemp, is 3x the finished length for working strands ( 3x12 in our case) , since this was .5mm hemp, I doubled that rule to 6x ; so I measured a strand of hemp in working color1 that was 72" [6x12] (because my hemp was 1/2 the size of the 1mm hemp that I am used to and my core was something like 10mm across). Then I doubled that 72" (because I'm eventually going to fold this in half and work with it) so, I made 6 - 144" strands.
3. I used a binder clip to hold the 6 ends of string and i secured it under my iron on my ironing board and I stretched it from end to end across my living room and began twisting until the line became taut.
4. I had my boyfriend hold the center while I brought the 2 ends together and I let the 72" rope form.
5. Repeat for 2nd working color.
Here are pics of my finished product! :)
(I'll try to get some pics of the actual rope making process next time)
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
Anyway, I was confused because my hemp "looked" different from my previous orders of hemp, but it wasn't until I got them side-by-side that I realized where I had fumbled. Even with all my years on Ebay I still mess up from time to time, but this was going to be interesting; finding a use for all this very thin .5mm (10lb) hemp. Little did I know fate would step in the next day when a friend sent me a picture of a para cord bracelet and asked if I could make him one out of hemp? Me: "YES! :)xInfinity" (I love when friends and family ask me to make stuff, like my cousin Pam who has a wedding in October [I better get making shoe-clips and hair facilitators]...another post, another day perhaps). Back to the story (I stray much and often, my apologies) so I had to fashion me a way of making some thicker hemp. Anyway, here's how I did just that...
Plying-Up Your Hemp:
1. Cut the core piece that you will be working with, the finished product in this example was 8", so let's assume the starting length was 12" (this leaves room for knotting).
2. Rule of thumb when working with Hemp, is 3x the finished length for working strands ( 3x12 in our case) , since this was .5mm hemp, I doubled that rule to 6x ; so I measured a strand of hemp in working color1 that was 72" [6x12] (because my hemp was 1/2 the size of the 1mm hemp that I am used to and my core was something like 10mm across). Then I doubled that 72" (because I'm eventually going to fold this in half and work with it) so, I made 6 - 144" strands.
3. I used a binder clip to hold the 6 ends of string and i secured it under my iron on my ironing board and I stretched it from end to end across my living room and began twisting until the line became taut.
4. I had my boyfriend hold the center while I brought the 2 ends together and I let the 72" rope form.
5. Repeat for 2nd working color.
Here are pics of my finished product! :)
(I'll try to get some pics of the actual rope making process next time)
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
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