Escaping Myself!

I am just beginning to experiment with self-bondage and running into a bit of trouble. The issue is that I manage to get out! I have tried the basic hogtie - hands secured in a wrist coil, cinched up with its end tied to the rope around my ankles. My problem is that I can grab the “neck” of the cinch noose (where the rope coils around the rest) and pull it away from my wrists, loosening the cinch, and then slip my hands out. Aside from using a totally different method like handcuffs (all those horror stories about getting stuck scare me off them for now), I can only think of one option… making a chest harness and trying to tie the end of the cinch there. I do enjoy having my hands and feet tied together, though, and since it is such a common technique, I figure there must be some way to make it work… Any thoughts?