Tri-Color Removable Crotchrope

by Rope Fashions

Tri-Color Removable Crotchrope

Braiding is a wonderful way to make crotchropes. Braided crotchropes are good looking, and their bumpy surface provides additional stimulation for your partner. If you want to slip a vibrator under the crotchrope, the wide surface helps hold it in place, and the vibrations are distributed all along the crotchrope.

This crotchrope uses a three-color braid, which adds a decorative touch. And it is removable. Often, with ordinary crotchropes, there comes a time in the scene when the crotchrope starts getting in the way of things.

This crotchrope can easily be removed at that point, without having to undo a lot of your ropework. And if you don’t want to slow down your scene while you braid up the crotchrope, you can braid it in advance, and attach it to the waist rope when you need it.

Step 1: The materials you will need for this crotchrope are:

20 to 40 feet of black 5/16-inch rope for the waist rope.
Eight feet each of red, black, and green 5/16-inch rope for the braid.
Two rubber bands like they sell for holding ponytails in place.

We are using solid-braid MFP rope from Rainbow Rope at http://www.RainbowRope.com

Drape the three eight-foot ropes over the edge of your hand. The order should be red, black, and green, from front to back, and the ropes should be centered over your hand.

Step 2: Grab the ropes just under your hand, and pull your hand out of the loops. You should have three loops, roughly three inches long, emerging from your fist. Slip a rubber band over the loops to hold them tightly in place.

Step 3: Hold the ropes so that the red ropes are up. Cross the left red rope over the right red rope.

Step 4: Now cross the right black rope over the red ropes, then cross the left black rope over the right black rope.

Step 5: Now cross the right green rope over the black ropes, then cross the left green rope over the right green rope.

Step 6: Continue alternately crossing the outside right rope over to the left, then the outside left rope over to the right.

Keep the tension even and snug, for a nice tight braid.

If you ever get two ropes that are lying side by side, with no crossing, that means you did two ropes from the same side in a row, rather than alternating. Just back up one rope, and use the rope on the other side.

Step 7: Continue braiding until you run out of rope. When you get to the end, slip the second rubber band over the ropes to hold the ends in place.

You can store the crotchrope this way until you are ready to use it.

Step 8: Now we will make the waist rope. The length of the waist rope is not critical; somewhere between 20 and 40 feet, depending on your partner’s waist size and how many wraps around the waist you want. I used a 38-foot length of rope that was handy.

Begin by doubling the rope. Wrap the middle part (the loop) around your partner’s waist, then pull the ends through the loop.

Step 9: Now pull the rope so it is snug, then wrap it around the waist in the opposite direction (so that it is pulling against the loop).

Step 10: Keep wrapping until you are almost out of rope. You should have two rope ends in your hand. Take one end and run it through the the loop (the one that was formed earlier when you changed wrap directions). Now tie the two ends together in a square or reef knot (left over right, right over left). The completed waist rope should look something like this.

Step 11: To use the crotchrope, slip the end with the loops up under the waist rope.

Step 12: Now put the ends of the crotchrope through the loops.

Step 13: Pull the rope so it is snug, with no slack in the loop, then run the crotchrope between the legs.

Step 14: Run the ends of the crotchrope under the waist rope in back, and pull it so it is nice and snug.

Step 15: Pull the end of the crotchrope under the part below the waist rope, from right to left.

Step 16: Now take the ends under the loop around the waist rope, forming an overhand knot.

Step 17: The completed crotchrope looks like this.

There are a couple of alternative ways to finish the crotchrope. One is to unbraid the crotchrope to a few inches below where it meets the waist rope in back, then rebraid it into two three-strand braids (just like you use for making pigtails in hair). Put a rubber band on each end. Then slip one pigtail under the waist rope, and tie the two pigtails in a square or reef knot. This is a pretty finish, and makes it easier to adjust the tension.

For less bulk in the back, you could unbraid the end of the crotchrope as before, run one set of three ends under the waist rope, and again tie a square or reef know, treating each set of three ends as one.

And if you want a narrower crotchrope, you can follow the same procedure, but with two ropes instead of three. If you use contrasting colors for the ropes it makes lovely chevrons, just like the three-rope version.

The end of the crotchrope with the loops is inherently prettier and less bulky than the end with the knot. So if you’re doing this for show, put the loops on the side that shows. And if you’re doing it for play, put the loops on the side she will be lying on.

I hope this crotchrope brings you and your partner lots of pleasure.