Last night we made a fire in our hearth and, though I loved every second of it, we found out our chimney needs cleaned very badly! While watching the fire for the little bit I got I made more Celtic knots, learning about Romilly Allen's basic blocks.I'm in chapter 5 now of 'Celtic Knotwork' by Iain Bain and he is describing a person, Romilly Allen, who has defined a method of drawing knots by using simple blocks then repeating them or mirroring them. It's a wonderful concept, and rather similar to working with blocks in weaving but I digress. Iain covers only 8 of the blocks that Romilly discovered in his work, and he explains that there are thousands of more blocks that Romilly goes over. Here is block 1 and the variations of itself I played with. Looking at this I could also connect more of the centers and have a completely different look. Here is block 2: Having blocks that you know by heart would be very helpful when you start creating your own designs, so i love this method. I did have to laugh when the author talks about how he designs his own Celtic knots only to find out it was done 1,000 years ago already. Yep, know how that goes!
So that is what I'm up to, oh, and I'm still weaving away on the table runner that will be finished here in a few more days barring any other life events.
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I'm still out in the cabin the snow has melted now that we have heavy rains moving in which means I was able to get out for a little bit. But as soon as we came back I finished my largest Celtic Knot yet.The first thing you do when drawing a Celtic Knot is to make a grid, followed by diagonal lines. Once the pattern is filled in it seems that it is all about erasing and re-connecting. I think there is a method to where you place the new connections, but I haven't gotten to that part yet. Once reconnected it's all about clean up and color. And that's what I've been doing. Let's see what else happens over Christmas.
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