Monday, 19 January 2015

Attempt at making a tutorial - Ram horns

I've learned how to card weave last Friday. There's a pattern that I've been wanting to try for a while, it's sorta the reason why I wanted to learn how to do card weaving. When we were working on my handfasting garb, Glynis made the most beautiful straps for my apron. They were ram horns. So I decided that eventually I'll learn how to make some myself and put ram horns on everything. So Saturday, being out of commission due to a car accident on Friday, I decided to play around. I studied a book that Glynis gave me, looked at the straps on my apron and did some research here and there. I took what I registered in, played around for a bit and ended up with ram horns!

Here's how I made them.

I have a thing for red and black...
So I started by tying little fluffs of wool in the A hole (... yeah...). Notice that there's 2 different colours. the ones that are yellow will be the one that I flip. That would be card # 3-4-5 and 8-9-10.



So I turn all the cards towards me 4 times, until I'm back with all the fluffs on top. Now flip the card with the yellow fluffs
This probably works best
with wooden cards.



You'll end up with fluffy A holes all over the place. Like this:



Again, 4 turns towards you and switch the cards again. Do that a couple hundred times and you'll end up with a ram horn trim!

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