Testing My Designing Limits

A friend suggested I make a bracelet more representative of the Zimbabwe flag than my stylized version. Mmm, not easy in beaded crochet that is worked in the round and spirals. But I said I'd give it a go. I pondered, worked out mentally what to do. Then I doodled on graph paper:

I crocheted a small sample:

The take away from that was that I needed to adjust the stripes so that the black stripe came at the tip of the triangle. Back to the drawing board.

I then made a prototype bracelet, making changes as I went. On the first repeat, the symbol was too close to the end, so I moved it on the second. I also tried using blue to separate the green stripes, to represent sky. That wasn't a good idea, it's not definite enough, so I went back to black for the third repeat:

So step by step came to the final bracelet:

Of course it's still pretty stylized, with a few yellow and red beads to represent the symbol. But it does have a triangle and straight stripes!