How thick is it?

[eagleclan22]

Im makin a grass outfit for my friend.. hes a tall guy, and Im using ribbon for the whole thing, I was just wondering when I put the ribbon on, I think it might look a lil boney if I just use one row of ribbon, do any of you dancers have a grass outfit with the fringies made completely of ribbon??
If you do how many layers of ribbon did you use, I want to get a nice effect to it, and dont want it to look boney.
This guy is pretty tall, and I dont want him to look real long in the outfit... you know what I mean?

I was thinkin two rows and brick layering the ribbon.. two or three rows?? what do you think? what have you tried? what looks best??

[Wakalapi]

Taller dudes can get away with longer ribbons/yarns. Dunno about going overboard with thickness. Don't wanna end up looking like the Snuffalupagus out there, ya know?

[tradish_wiyan]

LMAO!!!!!! GOod one Paul!!! I can just picture snuffalupugus out there jammin to a grass dance song!!!:D

[Wakalapi]

Originally posted by tradish_wiyan
LMAO!!!!!! GOod one Paul!!! I can just picture snuffalupugus out there jammin to a grass dance song!!!:D

Thanks. BTW my name is Jim. Paul is the webmaster and he lives about 3,000 miles east of me. :p

[sookout sh'nob]

I look a fuller look with my ribbons, so I do a row and a half. I do this by staggering the ribbons so they overlap a bit (maybe a 20-30% overlap look... I dont' measure it all out ;)). My sweetheart uses the same technique on a lot of fancy shawls. Looks just right to my eyes and dances pretty good too.

[Kiwehnzii]

:D Trick topic.

You just wanted people to look at this thread, why you named it that innit?

It worked:)

[Kakeeya]

Originally posted by Kiwehnzii
:D Trick topic.

You just wanted people to look at this thread, why you named it that innit?

It worked:)

What did you think it meant Kiwehnzii? :Chatter J/k

[eagleclan22]

lol of course Kiiwenzii

You got it park pontiac!

[Jammer]

Eagleclan, I used between two and four layers of ribbon through out my outfit. I think I used 3/8 inch ribbon can't really remember, but I wanted a fuller look. At the moment the outfit is 3/4 of the way finished and I've probably spent a good $100 or more on my ribbon alone. So its a bit more expensive.