Kumihimo: Japanese braiding

My middle daughter has been teaching herself Kumihimo, Japanese braiding.  She is just a beginner and can make an 8 stranded flat braid and a 7 stranded round braid.  We have gotten her a few books so she can teach herself some more.  I love the fact that my children are like me if they do not know a skill they want to learn then they are willing to teach themselves.
 

Day 6 going forward

I like day six it is only a 6 stitch repeat which makes it real simple to remember.  Not hard at all.

day 5 revisited

OK by now you have probably figured out that massive mistakes as much as I want to let them stay I want to rip them out all the more.  Also the nupps on this one just didn't impress me.  I like them to stand out like they do in the lily of the valley one.  But without a yo next to them they sort of just get lost in the background.  So when I frogged all that work I replaced the nupps with beads for aesthetic reasons only and I fixed the mistakes in the yoyo between the diamond shapes and found the added stitch that made everything wonky near the end hope this looks better to you as it does to me.

Day 5 : confussion on the advent scarf

I have worked day five and I can honestly say I have not a clue what it is supposed to look like I think I made a mistake in the middle and one of the third to last row.  So here it is done but I don't know what it was supposed to look like.  That is the bad thing about doing a stitch you have never seen finished your guess is as good as mine.  The one thing I did learn is that nupps had nothing to do with all the mistakes on day two as the mistakes in this one had nothing to do with rows that had nups or even the row after them.  I am going to frog and re-due I don't like the way it looks.  Also I am going to replace the nupps with blue beads as I think it would look better the nupps do not pop in this like they do in Lilly of the valley probably  because here they are not surrounded by yos.