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