Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

What I’m Doing Right Now

I'm un-macramé-ing.  I'm un-knotting.  I'm undoing.  

I started a friendship bracelet a few days ago.

friendship bracelet

1 inch of wonderful

I wore pants for the sole reason of having a nice anchor for the safety pin.  (Many days I like donning a skirt because it's just like wearing a big blanket.)

For some reason, I ended up doing the chevron thing, which I needed a little refresher on.  

And I thought I was going to have the most modern, color-blocked, awesome bracelet, but then I realized I had 24 pieces of thread.  That might be ridiculous.  

I halved my recipe and started up.

I always hated how the first rows are all gathered and ruffled, but loved how everything got very orderly and repititious after 5 or 6 rows.  

That first inch and a half or so went well, then I got all un-ambidextrous and my knots went wonky.  So, now, right now, I'm picking at these tiny knots with my safety pin so I can redo a couple rows and maybe finish this bad boy before the week is over.  

Next time?  Monochrome, 4 strand beginner level bracelet, yo.

ed westwick

wears friendship bracelets, is embarrassed I'm telling you
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