BetwixtBlushes

BetwixtBlushes is a rope teacher in Denver, Colorado, who ties and teaches with her long-time rope partner TheDude. Her Studio Friction biography says she has been a regular in the Denver rope scene since 2015 and describes her as an enthusiast of discussion groups and of rope bottoms speaking up, especially in class. Rope in the Rockies adds that she teaches regularly in Denver and occasionally at conventions in the United States.

Teaching at Studio Friction

Most of her listed teaching takes place at Studio Friction, a Denver rope studio, where she and TheDude teach parts of its structured rope bondage curriculum. They led the one-day “Start Here: Foundations of Rope Bondage” intensive in March 2024 and again in February 2025; it introduces newcomers to the studio and covers consent, negotiation, safety, vetting partners, studio etiquette and rope types before an afternoon of foundational ties such as single and double column ties, a reverse tension chest harness, a spiral futomomo and the first rope of a three-rope takate kote. In fall 2026 the pair teach Beginner 1, the four-session course that opens the curriculum. Earlier in 2026 they taught Intermediate 2, which covers suspension-worthy ties including two futomomo variants and the drum hip harness, refines chest harnesses, builds upline skills and begins work on transitions.

In August 2024 they taught a two-hour class on the Peach Tie, a hip harness devised by the Toronto rigger Tifereth; the listing calls it supportive but not a beginner harness because its tensioning is unforgiving. A joint biography on that listing says the two often teach, play and occasionally perform at Denver venues and have presented rope content at several national conventions. In July 2025 she sat on “Pleasure Seekers: Why do we Rope?”, a Studio Friction panel on what draws people to rope and on the growth of the Denver rope community.

Rope in the Rockies

Rope in the Rockies, a Denver rope convention, lists her and TheDude among its 2026 presenters and says they have tied together for more than ten years, like dynamic rope with lots of movement and want to understand the reasoning behind rope choices. Their convention classes include “Flipity Flip,” an advanced suspension sequence with fixes for common problems faced by tops and bottoms, and “Give Me a Minute,” a fast discussion format built on one-minute answers to rope prompts. Her own presenter page lists a “Rope Bottom’s Roundtable,” a discussion space centered on bottoms’ experiences in which tops and switches are asked to speak only from a bottoming perspective.