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Nancy wrote:
>Does anyone have experience with taking a pattern, say, from a cross-stitch
>pattern book, and adapting it for double-face TW?
I've done it. I use two tablets per square. It worked particularly well
when I wove Celtic knotwork for a hat trimming.
But I think that with Celtic knotwork or similar diagonal-intensive
patterns it might be worth it to try using three tablets per square. That
way the diagonal elements of the interlacement would be equally smooth at
both of their long color borders, since they'd slant the same direction.
It would also be possible to feather the edges of the short color borders
where one element of the interlacement crosses under another, which would
make a nice refinement to a complicated pattern.
A lot depends also on how hard you beat that particular band; with a heavy
beat, three tablets may be too many, giving a short fat effect. With a
light beat, two tablets may give too long and skinny an effect.
Carolyn
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