How to make twisted rope that bulges

Hi there…
Does anyone know how to make this twisted rope that bulges in the middle?
I have made rope using the screw modifier, i just dont know how to make an accurate bulging mid section…
Any help would be great! Thanks

screw modifier and then used the curve modifier to have it along a bezier curve?
Because then you can scale points of the bezier curve and taper it that way. Scaling points on curve in edit mode was crtl+a if i remember correctly without testing.

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Or… enableing the extra curve addon, adding a helix corve, copy and rotate, adding some bevel depth and controll the individual radi…

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Please refer to the video to use the curve option

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