小耳翼疊壓吉祥結E型 little ear wing fold pressure lucky/auspicious knot E type/build/model Type 5 Good Luck Knot with Small Outer Loops

I fixed up yesterday’s blogiversary post, but I don’t know what that means to the RSS feeds, so I thought I would mention it here in this post.

It’s my one month blogiversary! With only a little bit of cheating, I’ve posted everyday. So, to celebrate I’m giving away a tassel with a hawk’s eye bead in the centre and seed bead details. I was also thinking to give away the materials I used to make the tassel (a spool of cord, a selection of beads, and tassel fringe). Should it be all one prize or two? What do you think? I’ll be documenting the creation of the tassel on the blog, of course. To enter to win the tassel, just leave a comment with a valid email (or register and post) on this post. Entries will be accepted until Feb 28, 2009 and a winner selected at random declared shortly thereafter.

Apropos to the theme of the last 2 weeks or so, a brace of Good Luck knot related links:

Take your good luck corner crown and instead of crowning counter clockwise followed by clockwise, try clockwise followed by clockwise. And this is the result (see right, note that counter clockwise followed by counter clockwise would have the same result but mirrored). Getting the tension right so that the knot was stable was actually quite difficult and aesthetically, IMHO, not worth it. Another asymmetrical knot, the back (see left) is also uninteresting.