February 2024 Twining
|
Zig-Zags
This month we look at lines that zig-zag to different rhythms. In the photo at the right the orange colored pairs change directions every six rows, while the yellow pairs change direction every three rows. This creates a pattern I call the Zig-Zag. Your challenge, after working through the pattern is to play with the pattern. Place more threads between the contrasting colored threads. Extend the lines, make them travel farther before changing direction. There is no right way to make a zig-zag, only different ways. |
|
|
Motif A
Here is the chart and instructions for the zig-zag motif. Your challenge, should you decide to accept, is to work Motif A but doubling the pairs of twining stitches, so that it looks like the photo above.
| ||||||
|
Motif B
This is a motif Carol calls Rail Road Tracks. Really it is a mistake, Carol was trying to replicate a motif in a bonnet in the collection of the Petri Museum. She got the motif wrong, but thought it was an interesting pattern anyhow. In this motif, you will have a pair of stitches of two colors, the background color and a contrasting color. There is an interesting effect as they twine across the background color cloth.
| ||||||