Braided is a great idea! I want to have a go now... I'll make sure not to use up all my nice wire before I can get some to you Darren 😂

Ah yeah that could work. I have some beading 'memory wire' that's taking up space in my craft drawers - it's not very thick, but could provide a proof of concept.
If you haven't got a better plan by the time I see you next, I'll bring it along.

Oo shiny!

You could try thick jewellery wire, bent into shape with pliers. Not sure how easy the neopixels would be to attach to it though, you might need two wires like rails haha

I was imagining my Christmas decorations, which could be secured at the bulb bits only, but the ones that come on a reel would be much more challenging!
Maybe solder strips of 5 or so instead of individual ones, so there is a bit of flexibility?
Tricky one, look forward to hearing more solutions :D

A cut up piece of old tights (skin coloured), with the string sewn or glued in place?
Or, if you can do some soldering with them and switch the string out for individual pixels, I have some stiff but bendable wire I could give you!

Pattern from here (I adjusted for three leaves): bhookedcrochet.com/2015/02/15/c...

Thanks! Going to take a while to get my feed back to like twitter from 5 years ago ha, been off social media for so long!