Hi, Di...
Sorry you're having such trouble with this. I've never done any of
the patterns or threading from The Loomy Bin, but I've heard good
things aboug them. You're probably right that you need to check which
side should be up. My experience says A/D, like yours. Also, check to
see which side should be up after the first turn. That bit me in one
of my first experiments using a pattern with which I was not
familiar. I was turning the wrong direction. Can you see if your
design is being formed on the bottom? You might need to use a mirror.
Mary
At 10:57 PM 2/25/2008, you wrote:
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>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 <*>
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