Hopefully you can see this is one of the photos. I find that it's best to do this in small sections, stopping when the strand is about to weave, and then doing the same thing with the other unfinished pencil lines around it. For this, I use a pen to draw a little to the left and right of each pencil line, and make sure that it weaves under and over every line it comes across. T o try to give a written description - I treat each pencil line as if it's it's own strand. Hopefully you can tell from the photos how I did it. It can also be really effective with this style to only colour in parts of it. It can be really easy to make a mistake with the weaving here (I made a few!), so try not to zone out whilst you're doing it if you can. It takes a while, bit it makes the whole thing look a lot more intricate. I did the pattern again so you could see an example of it finished differently. Turning each strand into two strands, like in the first picture.Only colouring half of the strands (personally I like doing this as it makes it look a little less flat, so that's why I've done this in the examples).Colouring in, or drawing patterns on the strands (in one or many colours, many colours will make each individual strand stand out).There are lots of ways to finish your design. And can happen if you do border-like things inside the main body of the design too.Īt this point it's good to check that every strand weaves perfectly, that is - it's continually going over, under, over, under etc. Also note that I had to reverse the x notch, in order to maintain the over-under-over weaving pattern. It would have worked with horizontal notches, but I think the x ones look nicer in these sorts of places. For this, I turned the two vertical notches into x notches. I then decided that I didn't like long edges on the left and right, so I threaded the strands back into the design. This was only because I quite liked it not being four-way symmetrical. I then changed that at every corner, but only on the top edge and bottom edge (rather than mirroring it all the way around). (It would also have worked with a horizontal notch). In this example, it had been a vertical notch, but I turned it into a cross notch. I didn't like them at all, so I linked up the strands to other strands by changing the notch that I had previously used. With this one, it turned out to be the little ovals in the four corners. So I need to add some more.Īt this stage I like to look at the design to see if there are any parts of it that I don't like. On my example, I only have two squares that have notches in every corner. (Always do it this way round for each box, otherwise your strands won't be alternately weaving, which will spoil the effect.) Make sure to have this second strand go underneath the first strand. Then in the same box, you join the two notches from the top left of the square, to the two notches on the bottom right of the square.Joining the two notches from the bottom left of the square, to the two notches on the top right of the square.Then you start to draw your strands for squares that have notches on every corner.
If you're not copying mine, but don't understand mirroring yet, I'd still say to put your choice of notches in the same positions as mine in the grid.) If you are copying mine, make sure to put them in the same place in the grid. (You can draw whatever ones you like if you don't want to follow along. I started by drawing notches for 6 intersections (circled in red).
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