I am lacking pictures yet. Tomorrow when my battery is charged I will add them but I have the time to write this now so I'm doing it! Carrying on...
A question on here, combined with my laziness, led me to create what appears to be a new, or at least rare, dread accessory.
Someone asked where they could buy dread wraps. At first that seemed like a silly question. You don't buy them. You buy string/thread/yarn and wrap your dreads yourself!
But then I started thinking...what if you could? So I searched google. Nothing. Peyotes, headbands, beads, coils, everything but an "instant" dread wrap.
Well I wanted one. I wanted one that I could just slip on and off because I can never seem to commit to wraps. Beads stay in forever with me it seems but wraps go in and out and I hate putting them in and cutting them off. They ALWAYS get eaten up by my hair.
So out came the 3mm(2.2 actually upon further inspection) hook and some crochet thread and I crocheted up a narrow tube and I made what amounts to an instant wrap/beadless peyote sleeve depending on the length created. Such a simple idea that I can't understand why I can't find anything like it online!
Right now everything is still in the prototype stage. I'm testing out the various lengths and widths that are possible but I've already discovered some awesome pros to this accessory.
1. I can move the "wrap" from dread to dread. Commitment is scary! (Says the dready...)
2. They stretch. I can get the shorter ones up and over my huge loops. Then they go back into shape!
3. They dry really well and can be moved up and down or simply taken off and on for washing!
4. They're really light and don't weight down the dreads.
5. (This is only a benefit for those who love their bumps and loops) They conform to the shape of your dread instead of making your dread conform to it. I don't want my bumps to disappear so this makes me happy.
I'm already planning sets for Canada Day, Halloween, and Christmas and am very excited!
PICTURES! (Just not very good ones!)
Basic shot
This one shows the bumps/loops/paddle it went over. It did take some squeezing of the bumpy loops and a bit of tugging but it went over pretty easily and bounced back into shape. Now my paddle is all pretty! This one is more "open" than the other one because I used double crochet instead of single.
And this just shows how flexible the crochet is...
Longer/wider for bigger dreads one is in the works.
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The newest one really feels like it deserves the name "dread sweater". I used double crochet and I made it just big enough to fit beween my loops on what I affectionately refer to as 'Dreadwad'.
And for size comparison against the first one...
updated by @tied-up-in-knots: 02/14/15 09:41:13AM
