Hi all, I'm a relatively new cardweaver and this is my first post to the group. I learned in a class last fall and have several successful projects under my belt, but I've still a LOT to learn. My current attempt isn't working out so well. I was hoping that someone here might be able to help me figure out what I'm doing wrong...
I was browsing patterns at The Loomy Bin and totally fell in love with the 4-strand braid in this set of patterns: http://www.theloomybin.com/cw/braids.html I'm pretty sure my cards are threaded correctly A-D, and I think all are Z-threaded, but I just can't seem to get anything but gibberish when I try to weave. My first question is, which "letters" should be "up" as I start weaving? Most patterns I've worked have the A/D side uppermost when starting but that doesn't seem to work here. Closer investigation of the pattern suggests that "C" should be "first", but I'm not entirely certain if that means that C should be closest or farthest from me along the top. I read the instruction for the 3-strand braid and that seemed to make some sense to me, dividing cards into two packs and turning one forward and one backward, but I've not found a way to make the principal apply on the 4-strand. Is it true that if I have accidentally threaded all these cards "S" that I can just switch the direction that the packs rotate and will be able to compensate? I've plenty of warp to continue experiments, and hope that, eventually, I can figure this out. The added wrinkle making this marginally more difficult is that I (possibly foolishly) decided to try this out of sewing thread, so it's difficult to see exactly what I'm doing wrong, but it looks like gibberish to me. (it's not my first sewing-thread attempt, and the others turned out really well, but this one... youch!) Does anyone have any suggestions? Please? Thanks! Di <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
