I am both pleased and disappointed with this set of bookmarks.
Pleased: I wanted to challenge myself to do my own design. I wanted the kivrim patterns to be nestled together, and I wanted the “fish hooks” to face each other. I achieved that, which means I feel pretty confident in playing around with this design now. I wanted to try highlighting the pattern and I understand how that works now, too. I also wanted to try the “Staudigel edge” – I like this a lot.
Disappointed: My original plans were to do this in teal, rust and gold, but the thread I was using was far too fragile. In the cotton colors, I ended up going with a somewhat pleasing combination, although it came out feeling pretty Christmas-y. Which is fine, since I intend these to be in my Christmas cards! However, the values are too close, and I didn’t get the strong look I orignally was going for. I read that you should stick with simple colors and not to get too fancy with color changes. Certainly at this fine weight, that is very true, especially when the values are close. The gold highlighting on the patterns is washed out because it is too close in value to the light green. You have to be at macro level to see it clearly. The “Staudigel edge” also has dark values too similar, although it is beautiful.
That being said, when you stand back and look at it- it is really gorgeous, so I think I'm being too picky.
I mark my unique cards with a small tied piece of thread- this time i put a drop of fray check on the knots- this seems to be working very well to keep the knots holding with all the turns.
11/10/2013 Cut these off the loom a few days ago. Got 6 card sized bookmarks plus a small sample for myself. The cards marked with sewing thread knots held up throughout the weaving, so adding a drop of fray check is definitely the answer for that. On to the next design!
Comments