Strings and Things: 2015

I have a Mac, so I can't use GTT. This was charted from a picture of a band that used that pattern, and might be different. If you use GTT, please let me know if it matches the pattern found here: http://www.guntram.co.za/tabletweaving/patterns/threaded_complex.html

4F/4B except the two cards that only roll F

28 white

28 Green

While this pattern is 4F/4B, I do not recommend counting the turns. Instead, you know when to change direction when the top of the leaf comes to a point, and the white fleck shows up in the center on the other side.

If you don't catch those, it will become very obvious when you roll too far, because the color will change abruptly.

In this case, it was a mistake, because changing the rolling direction will change the direction of the leaves (which I did not want). However, if you want your leaves to change direction, it will also remove twist because the always F cards change to always B.

I wound up weaving this while playing with diagonals, but it matches elements of one of the patterns that I had looked at from Applsies and Fox noses, so I am not going to take credit for it. It matches the one I had previous looked at, but the author of that book was kind enough to give me permission to share the pattern I made. Diagonals are really easy to manipulate, so I will try to be good and post a how-to chart patterns using diagonals blog entry at some point. The basic part of diagonals is that you change directions in pairs, which means that three cards with the same color showing on a chart will have two in the same direction with any third card of the same color moving in the opposite direction. So // \, \ //, \\ /, or / \\. Not a full explanation, but hopefully enough to get you thinking about how patterning works for later.

Set up is half S and half Z as you would usually do for basic diamonds. You need the X part, but your diamond part is modified by the direction changes. / is forward or away from you, and \ is backwards or towards you. You can choose either color for the pattern.

What it looks like

I did a border with two gold and two red in adjoining holes, and mirror imaged. I matched them to my start direction which means it gives the bend on some parts, and totally doesn't match on others (double bend), but I kind of thought it would be interesting, and wound up liking the effect. Most of the time I am boring and do solid colored borders, so this was kind of fun.

Strings and Things

Friday, July 3, 2015

Guntram's Leaf Pattern?

Friday, January 9, 2015

Diagonals sun, aka eye of Sauron.