Post #671322 by hiltiki on Sat, Mar 16, 2013 7:56 PM

I make a lot of these floats and as far as the length of each rope goes, I fold each piece of rope in half and the length I use is 8 times the length of the diameter of the glass ball.
lets say the ball is 8 inches long in diameter, times 8 is 64 inches, I cut pieces of ropes that are 128 inches each and fold them in half and start making these floats. Usually I make 5 or 7 or 9 of these ropes per glass ball and they seem to work well as opposed to 2 and 4 and 6 pieces.....
The more dense you like to have your float look the more ropes you add on. I do get to have a lot of left over rope at the top but I mange to make it work and I complete each one nicely.
Also, if you like a tight weave (so you would not see too much glass but more rope) then you would use more rope for that effect.
I will put some pictures up one of these days when I start my tiki hut thread.
Hope this makes sense.