It's easy enough to *start* a cloth stitch trail going in opposite directions; you hang your passive pairs on a pin (you may want to loop them, to keep the unworked ones in place until you're ready for that side), "splayed", hang two worker pairs on the usual pin and start weaving in both directions. No sweat... :)
But, how do you -- safely -- *end* a similiar situation?
You don't have starting loops to sew into, nor, I should think, would you want them -- you want the trail to look as unbroken as possible. What you do have is a head-on collision of two sets of bobbins :)
I managed, more or less OK, to keep the workers "in pattern", but, with the passives, I had to be really "creative" <g> The final results are OK to look at, but but definitely not "in pattern", and not acceptable should I want to share (publish) the pattern. I'm not even entirely sure just what I'd done; I would certainly not be able to explain the process to anyone else...
The situation is easy in part (each of the two trails consists of 2 -- cloth stitched - pprs and one wk pr), and difficult in part (can't hide too many knots behind 2 pprs <g>)...
I'd appreciate answers from anyone who's tackled a similiar situation. A quick look through Cook's "Practical Skills" and through Loehr's "400 Tricks" produced no results. And I haven't looked through Loehr's "Beginning of the End" because, frankly, I've never been able to make either head or tail (either the beginning, *or* the end <g>) of it, for all it has English translation where 400 tricks doesn't...
I'll be starting on "take 2" of the same pattern tomorrow (different colour combination), so will come to the same knotty problem within a week or so.
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