Same one, rotated a bit. I used different pieces of leather, with different dyes and slightly different textures for the red roses. I like the variability it brought to the flowers. A little bit of leather anti-aliasing, if you will.
Now I will show you how to make the stems of the roses. This is a lot of braiding, I will try to show the move, then just repeat it until your fingers fall off or you run out of leather. This braid is called a four-strand round braid without a core. When the flower was begun, there was one green and one brown lace crossed at the center. They come out of the bottom of the rose and I arrange them with two on the left and two on the right. This arrangement is constant throughout the braiding process.
On each side there an outer strand and an inner strand. This braid works the outer strand, always. It alternates from one side to the other, but you're always manipulating the outer strand. This is the starting position Please notice the INNER two strands have been crossed. This is an arbitrary choice, obviously they've not been "braided" but they'll be the seed for how each of the subsequent strands lie in the braid.
Notice the brown lace on the inside, the lace closest to the camera. It has "finished" its swing and landed hanging to the left. That means the next strand will finish hanging to the right.
I pick the OUTER strand on the right side, swing it behind the braid (here comes the trick to be repeated forever) under the first (outer) one and over the next (inner) one, ...
... ending hanging to right. meaning the next one will finish hanging to the left, so I take this OUTER strand on the left, behind the braid, under the first/outer strand it meets...
