I recently acquired a beautiful, hand-crafted set of traditional garter ties (garter snakes), in a wonderful, earthy green/brown.

I read the very helpful tutorial http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/garter_howto.html
regarding how to tie them, but I still have a couple questions:

1. What is the proper placement of the "tabs", once they are tied?
Centered on calf? More to the front? Or throw caution to the wind & let the chips fall where they may?

2. Rather than the method shown in the tutorial, would it be appropriate if they were tied in a bow?

3. What other uses, might there be, for them? They seem so eloquently simple, that there must be other ways of utilizing them.