I made some, then I decided to try one I never made before (even if I have the book from ages) - the onion ring snowflake with SCMR off the onion from Monica Hahn's book. Well, I made it before, using (as it's suggested) two shuttles, but it was long time ago. Now I prefer the SCMR wherever I can put it. Long story short, after I made 2 spikes, I realized that the thrown ring is somewhat slanted.
It happens, because I joined the onion chain to the inside ring before making the off-ring. Well, I do not like it this way, even knowing I can fix the problem with blocking and stiffening. So I decided to try something else.
First, the idea was to join the chain to the picot after the SCMR. So we have this:
Then I realized that at this point I can kill two rabbits with one shot (Bulgarian proverb) and to join the chain together with closing the off-ring.
So I pulled the core thread for the SCMR through the joining picot, et voila, we have a better behaving off ring.
I do not know if it's something new, or somebody did it already (I bet it's the later), but I will appreciate all the comments I can get.
5 comments:
Clever idea. I must try that sometime. I've not seen it before but it's a very good idea. Thanks for showing it.
JaneEb
That's a really neat trick, Fani!
Great trick!
What a creative solution Fani! I love watching your work progress.
Bev in NM
Just wanted to say I have never seen it before. Will have to try it. Thanks for posting it. I really liked the photos you took it was very easy to see everything.
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