Having made the Sea Spray Kumihimo bracelet for my friend last year, I started to wonder if I could use the bead in the middle of a similar design, especially as the colours were very close.
I started with working out the design I wanted to use. This had to take into account the fact I wasn't sure I'd have enough beads, and it would be hard to get replacements.
Once I had an idea of what I wanted to do, I started making it. So far so good. But then I got to the part where I added the bead and something went a bit wrong and I had to undo it and try again. More issues. So I gave up for a bit and it sat there half made for ages (weeks).
Finally, I didn't have anything more important to do and I decided to get it sorted. I undid the bit that had gone wrong, and set everything up again, and started work.
This time it worked fine and I soon had a finished necklace. I liked the colours and the design seemed to work and I was pretty happy, until I held it up with the bead in the middle and realised that one side was longer than the other!
I had assumed that using the same number of beads would mean both sides came out the same size, and I guess if I'd been using uniform beads this would be the case, but the slightly larger green beads are all over the place size wise and I guess it pushed the pattern out. If I'd measured it as I went I would have realised and stopped before it got too long.
Lesson learnt. Now to decide if I undo it a bit and fix, undo it completely and make it shorter or just leave it as is.
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