G'morning, On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:45 AM, fujiellena <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been working through this tutorial on line > http://www.silkewerk.com/diagonal.html > Each step worked out well, except for the very last picture, combining > chevrons with diagonal reversals. > When it says the picture shows 'faulty' stepped chevrons I don't know if it's > referring to the fact that they're not quite symmetrical in the centre?
No, actually the tiny asymmetry in the center is the nature of the beast - you can't mix diagonal stripes that go all the way across the band with chevrons that meet perfectly in the middle. The flaw in that piece is that the two sides of the chevrons are not the same, where the diagonal direction switches: on one side it switches on red, while on the other it switches on white. > Here's another example of the pattern I mean > http://www.vicus.org.uk/weaver/weavermain.html The second piece under > 'egyptian diagonals'. > I got my work set up as on the tutorial with each side mirroring the other > and the cards stepped. The only difference was I had a different colour in > each hole, rather than dark, dark, light, light. I tried changing the > direction of 2 cards at a time starting in the centre, starting at the > outside and both ways with the initial turning directions reversed. > I will get some shots of the results, but they weren't what I wanted! If > anyone can explain or link to a page which shows how to do this, I'd be very > grateful-Thanks :) You don't say what you expected or got, but let me guess: with four colors per card your colors don't line up. Well, they won't: it's physically impossible to get all four to match while doing diagonal patterns. You can do it LLDD or LDLD and get good results. If you use four colors, then you can only make diagonally-opposite colors line up at any one time. Snartemo is the main technique that uses four colors, and even there, not all colors match up at any one time. This shows up where chevron points come together Sarah -- Sarah Goslee http://www.stringpage.com
