I do not know what this "bloated blimp loop" is
You posted it:
And it's a lovely knot, worth seeing again!
It's "bloated"ness comes in sort of doubling
of the central nipping *turns* --one being
of the "bowled over" sort. My unshown
discovery lessens bloat there, but adds a
2nd collar on the SPart (some prior variant
did this around the eye legs, which don't
stand to benefit from it as the SPart might).
And the tail-twist version I described above
(where the final tail-tuck is made to encircle
its logical opposite/corresponding part, and
then the tail hauled straight to impart that
encircling to that opp/corr. part) I now see
is really a sort of corruption/version of X.'s
prettier but more awkward-to-tie variant,
which is more straightforwardly
larksheady(to coin a term).
The jamming of the
zeppelin loop can be
thwarted by making a full turn of the SPart's
tail-tucking ("tail" in this inchoate stage),
which leaves the to-become-collar part free
of direct force from the SPart-side eye leg.
.:. minimal bloat, should float your boat.
--dl*
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