Spirals
Seem to have had a breakthrough in designing card weaving patterns with spirals. Somehow I'd expected things to line up everywhere, and that's just not the case. The brain weasels are protesting the break in the line that connects the two spirals into an "S", but they'll just have to live with it. The design is offset by one, so that everything will weave evenly--pics when I weave up an example. It's either have it off by one in the very centre of the motif, or have it off by one at every corner, or use an odd number of cards! I'm sure people who actually buy books with designs in would know this already, but I'm really only extrapolating from extant textiles and working it out on squared paper.
I probably ought to start working up my turning diagrams in Excel or another spreadsheet programme so that I can easily see the effects of deleting cards and/or shrink the motif while maintaining aspect ratio. It's just easier for my brain to work from scratch using a pencil.
I probably ought to start working up my turning diagrams in Excel or another spreadsheet programme so that I can easily see the effects of deleting cards and/or shrink the motif while maintaining aspect ratio. It's just easier for my brain to work from scratch using a pencil.