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Whooo! Elective Patterning

Hurrah! It works! It's finally starting to look like the patterning I've seen on Linda Hendricksohn's website. The first band is in progress right now. The second couple of pics are from a warp I was previously working on. I tend to make very long warps, then get bored of them and move onto another one that offers greater possibilities. This warp is using 40 cards of 2/32's cotton. I am using the technique that Linda describes for making her calligraphy bands.  Look, it's an ankh and a pointy manny. You can get quite nice smooth diagonals if you have the cards pointing in a certain direction. Which maybe matters more with chunkier yarns like this. Actually, it's not chunky yarn, it's 8 ends of fine viscose run together as one end in each hole. but the effect is the same. And some more, including a cross and what looks like a christian fish but was actually meant to be the letter A. Something I really like about this technique is it gives y...