I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

So. I decided to try making a 10-strand flat Kumihimo braid for the first time.

( To explain Kumihimo... )

So.. back to my 10-strand flat Kumihimo braid. There's a good tutorial for it here. Since the tutorial used a square Kumihimo plate, that's what I used. After making the braid on the square plate, I'd figured out how it could be done on a Marudai, so I made another braid, using my usual light 25 gram spools (I have two sets of spools; small ones that weigh 25 grams and large ones that weigh 70 grams). The difference between the two braids was so remarkable that I wondered what would happen if I did it again on the Marudai, this time with 70 gram spools. And with the same yarn, of course. Again, there was a difference, but not so dramatic a difference.

Here, have a photo of the three of them:
( cut for photo )

I can only conclude that TENSION IS EVERYTHING.

A mixture of crafts in March.
( pictures )

In an extremely unfortunate bit of timing, I got a bad cold last week, and I'm still sick, though improving. The timing was unfortunate because there was a time-critical thing going on at work (handover of a project) and I simply could not be there. Viruses were battling it out in my body, my throat felt like wet sandpaper, and I was utterly exhausted. Mostly sleeping and drinking lemon honey tea with Lemsip in it. And then when my throat improved, my nose chimed in (which was odd, usually the throat follows the nose). Now I'm in the blowing-the-nose-and-coughing stage (and still v tired).
( When I wasn't sleeping, I thought I'd do stuff that didn't require a great many brain cells )