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Mystery tablet weave. Step 1 - preparing the cards
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Step 1
Decide how wide you'd like your band to be. This will determine how many playing cards you need.Enter your cut contents here.There is some guesswork involved in this, as yarn thicknesses are going to vary.
However, I shall set a crude rule of thumb and say that four warp threads are probably going to be around a centimetre.
This pattern will work for any width, but I wouldn't go below 8 cards, and if you go above 24, you're really getting a bit wide for a bookmark.
The width does not affect speed of weaving (well, not much), but it does affect the set up time as you have to prepare more cards and more warp threads.
I'm going to go with 16 cards for my own example, but I'd recommend 12 for beginners.They need to be square, so use one of the cards as a cutting guide and start chopping.
Now, round the corners. Doesn't need to be perfect.
Get out your hole punch and punch a hole in each corner of every card. Try and make the results as symmetrical as possible. You've got more cards than you actually need, so you can afford to waste a few cutting trial holes.
This is what the cards should look like after you've punched your holes.
No, (evil grin), I'm not going to tell you what you're going to do with the cards. That will be in the next post.
Step 1
Decide how wide you'd like your band to be. This will determine how many playing cards you need.Enter your cut contents here.There is some guesswork involved in this, as yarn thicknesses are going to vary.
However, I shall set a crude rule of thumb and say that four warp threads are probably going to be around a centimetre.
This pattern will work for any width, but I wouldn't go below 8 cards, and if you go above 24, you're really getting a bit wide for a bookmark.
The width does not affect speed of weaving (well, not much), but it does affect the set up time as you have to prepare more cards and more warp threads.
I'm going to go with 16 cards for my own example, but I'd recommend 12 for beginners.They need to be square, so use one of the cards as a cutting guide and start chopping.
Now, round the corners. Doesn't need to be perfect.
Get out your hole punch and punch a hole in each corner of every card. Try and make the results as symmetrical as possible. You've got more cards than you actually need, so you can afford to waste a few cutting trial holes.
This is what the cards should look like after you've punched your holes.
No, (evil grin), I'm not going to tell you what you're going to do with the cards. That will be in the next post.
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Go and find some left-over yarn, preferably not too fluffy and in two contrasting colours and I'll post instructions for what to do with it in five or six day's time.
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It's cheap to do, and you've nothing to lose.