Tonight I wanted something to do with my hands, and I braided another sling. It ended up a bit shorter than I wanted, due to a design insight about halfway through. The end with the loop was braided from 6 strands of mason twine, then split into two braids of 3 each. After I finished that bit, I tied the strands off, and cut off all but 3 strands and braided those for the release end.  So far, so good, if a little short. My problem came when I went outside to give it a test. I could not get a rock to stay in the pouch for anything.  I came back in to write this up, and covered the split with gorilla tape. If anyone can tell me how you would go about keeping a stone in the split, I'd love to hear it.

Galvanicfish wrote on Apr 19^th, 2009 at 11:38pm:


Instead of braiding your pouch, extend the surface of your straps by weaving.

Hmm, that weave looks simple enough. One good thing about working with the mason's twine is that I can melt a piece and stick it to another with a fairly strong bond. I shall try that when next I make another one.  IT seems a bit less labor intensive than my first one that I stitched a piece of denim over the split.

melliphile, I braided a big sling out of cotton that was as hard as a rock.  It actually hurt to use the sling.  Try running your problem child through the washer and dryer.  That'll loosten it up.

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If there's enough room in the split and one of you is handy with a needle and thread, try sewing a piece of denim or other stout cloth over the split. I did that with my first attempt at a split pouch and it's held up quite well.