Re: question about double-faced TW

[Ruth Blau]

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Last week, I asked if I could repeat a DFTW design, but upside down. The example I gave was the peacock from Staudigel's book, which would then appear on the band tail to tail. And the question I had was whether I would get straight edges where I wanted them or would they be jagged. Carla replied as follows:

A quick answer is as follows: Look at the pattern for the right-side up
design.  You will notice that each "stitch" (= one tablet and two picks)
has a direction; it slants left or right. If every "/" (right slant) in
the original pattern goes to a "\" (left slant) in the upside down
pattern, all your outlines will come out the same.

Here's what I found: If I just use the design from the book & work it backwards, I do not get the result that Carla says I need--the left slants remain left-leaning & the right slants remain right-leaning. But I have scanned in the image into my computer so I can enlarge it for my aging eyes and so I can mount it on a magnet board while I'm working on it. And I found that if I bring the scan into a program like Paintshop Pro (there are any number of programs that allow you to manipulate images; this just happens to be the one I use) and "flip" the image, I do get the results Carla says I need. You have to be sure your program truly flips the image. Don't use "Rotate." This just turns it upside down; you can do the same thing by turning your page upside down. But flipping does reverse it: the left-leaning tablets become right-leaning, and vice versa.

Since I'm new (or newly returned) to this list, this may be old news. If so, I apologize.

Ruth


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