As I promised, the picture of the scaffold knot and solomon’s bar I made for our gate are on my photo-album at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/glenys_chew/album?.dir=c1e1
Hope the link works,
Regards
Glenys Chew
It works, (at least it brought me to your albums.)
Nice work.
And some more knotty pictures uploaded today.
Are you going to tell the story behind the tentpoles too, please?
Or one of the others?
Willeke
A nice album. Thank you for sharing them.
I’m afraid it’s nothing exciting 
I was clearing out the shed, putting a few things on Freecycle (are free adverts allowed, given that knot-tying can be one of the most recycling efficient hobbies there is?) and I found a bundle of old elasticated tent poles. I don’t like to throw away useful stuff like that, especially when it’s so easy to get new cord for them, so I got out Stuart Grainger’s Creative Ropecraft which I’d borrowed from the library and learned a new knot, rather than just using the constrictor again.
The Turks Head mat was one I was practising, as I’ve been very blessed by Mr Renwick at Union Cordage in Radcliffe. He produces polypropolene cord for the handles of bags and the like, and very generously gave me six rolls of offcuts (I think there’s over 100 m on each) and invited me back whenever I wanted more. What I want to do is try out that partial cooking trick on Al Folsom’s site. I think it says 400o for about 10 minutes. If it works, I shall make up small ones as key fobs, and larger ones as drinks coasters. I’m also hoping to make some Ocean Plaits as ‘cup and biscuit’ sized coasters.
The pond-dipping jar will probably be in use later this summer, and the blue thing was a plastic sheet (one of two) that used to be the base of a tent. It’s in a bad state for having been left scrunched up and getting in the way for the last few years in the corner of the shed. Fortuantely the under-shed critter doesn’t seem to have liked it. Probably had too much out of the chair cushions to want plastic 
Regards
Glenys Chew