White Winged Horse: Completed Mar 4, 2012
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Second multicolor blanket, finished by the Almond Festival 2012. This I attempted to create with only 4 colors. I created the pattern from the drawing (right), which I made sometime in the early '00s. The sky is digital, of course, I never took the time to pencil black the entire sheet of paper.
Here's what I've learned from this project:
1. Sometimes the "double-round weave," as I call it until I
know its real name, is better than weaving a few
stitches out, even if it looks bad--it can be fixed
afterward. (It turns out that the connecting of color patches
is called "intarsia," but that particular stitch's name is yet unknown.)
2. If I forget to weave a color so it's at the right place for the next row, I can slip stitch it across the back to
get there (but it's more efficient with materials to weave). As I read what I just wrote, I realize I should try
slipping it across the back if 2 or more strings need weaving, as well...I don't know if I have any more in this
project, but it certainly would have helped at the bottom of the tail!
3. Slip stitching the beginning and end of a new string can save yarn and time; it avoids weaving supremely long
distances, and it's much more secure.
4. Organizing the printed version of a large pattern turned out to be a sort of logic puzzle. I have been printing
them as normal pages, like a book; but then, upon working from pages myself for a second time, I realized
that charts work better if you can see the next row at the top of the page without turning it, and that it's
more convenient to work on a row without turning a page. Now I know how to print a pattern so that pages
that need to be seen at the same time can be seen.
Here's what I've learned from this project:
1. Sometimes the "double-round weave," as I call it until I
know its real name, is better than weaving a few
stitches out, even if it looks bad--it can be fixed
afterward. (It turns out that the connecting of color patches
is called "intarsia," but that particular stitch's name is yet unknown.)
2. If I forget to weave a color so it's at the right place for the next row, I can slip stitch it across the back to
get there (but it's more efficient with materials to weave). As I read what I just wrote, I realize I should try
slipping it across the back if 2 or more strings need weaving, as well...I don't know if I have any more in this
project, but it certainly would have helped at the bottom of the tail!
3. Slip stitching the beginning and end of a new string can save yarn and time; it avoids weaving supremely long
distances, and it's much more secure.
4. Organizing the printed version of a large pattern turned out to be a sort of logic puzzle. I have been printing
them as normal pages, like a book; but then, upon working from pages myself for a second time, I realized
that charts work better if you can see the next row at the top of the page without turning it, and that it's
more convenient to work on a row without turning a page. Now I know how to print a pattern so that pages
that need to be seen at the same time can be seen.
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