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Hi Di,
since I am the one who published that pattern in the first place I'll
try to answer your questions. This is not exactly an easy pattern to
weave, I hope you have enough experience and patience :-)
First, ignore the letters on your cards. They alone are meaningless and
I'm sorry I ever referred to them in my software. Instead just look at
the color in each position.
I weave complex patterns like this in 2 packs, all cards of the pattern
are Z-threaded (border may be different). Assuming your cards are
threaded correctly you need to come to a valid starting point. Pick any
point in the pattern and then call up the design screen. It shows the
cards for that pick. Ignore the letters but pay attention to the little
arrow on the left that indicates the current pick. That row should be on
top. Now you need to know that an S-threaded card turned forward has the
same effect as a Z-threaded card turned backwards.
I hope this gives you some ideas of how to check you setup. Good luck,
Gudrun
Di 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 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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