Today was an exciting day, right after I had started plaiting the overlay for a six foot bullwhip there were two huge booms that shook my condo! We didn’t know what they were, my wife thought someone had crashed a car into the building. We noticed a lot of neighbors milling around outside, so we went out and chatted. Turns out what we felt and heard were sonic booms from two military planes responding to someone entering the president’s airspace.
You’d think someone that makes whips, and cracks whips as part of his job and for fun would recognize a sonic boom? I’ll tell you a whip cracking is way different from a fighter jet!
You can read about this sonic boom incident here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012647005_sonicbooms18m.html
With all that excitement I still managed to plait about 3 1/2 feet of this six foot whip. Here it is in its current state:
Also here’s another bracelet that was made with other leftover parts from the pair of 7 foot bullwhips:
This one was fun to make because of all the different elements in it. One in is a loop of 4 plait round braid, that merges into an 8 plait flat braid, that turns into an 8 plait round braid, finally ending with a two tone turkshead. Some day I should dig out all the keychain that I have made from scrap roo and take pics of them.
Louie
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