Haven't done a snowflake in a while...
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capri0mni(Almost) Ever since I started doing these, I've wondered if I could do a celtic knot type design in them -- I haven't quite managed that, yet, but I did figure out how to do a pretty cool Chain Link.
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Date: 2003-04-02 03:53 am (UTC)Wait... it already is ;)
Heh, heh...
Date: 2003-04-02 08:37 am (UTC)Scary, isn't it? ;-)
Wonder if it could become a new art form...
Wait... it already is ;)
Well, except for the computer generated part, it's a pretty darn old art form -- been around since at least the first time a blade met paper...
Btw, I've tried doing these with real paper, and since we are moving out of the season of "snowflakes" (and I don't live in "snowflake country," anyway), I thought I'd try folding the paper in to 8-part symmetry instead of 6-part... I thought it would be easier, since dividing an angle in thirds is a bith and a half even when you have protractors and compasses... and it did not work at all. One folded edge came out a lot thicker than the other, and it wouldn't hold together while I was cutting...
So -- instead of calling them snowflakes, I'll call them clock faces. ;-)
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Date: 2003-04-02 06:44 am (UTC)sort of reminds me of how someone can "knot" up your heart...ok maybe it's just me :)
Or maybe not (knot? ;-})
Date: 2003-04-02 09:13 am (UTC)... well, I was kinda thinking of the "True Lovers' Knot" (a slip knot used to make two pieces of string that are too short to use into one piece of string that you can use). I read somewhere -- but forget where, sorry -- that a fishermen used this knot to propose to his sweetheart; he'd send her the knot in loose form, and if she tightened the knot and sent it back, it meant she accepted (awww! :-)). Hence, the name.
Pictures of how to tie it are here (http://www.realknots.com/knots/fishbend.htm).
But I couldn't figure out how to get the over-and underhand part of the design to work, so I had to settle on a chain... I thought of doing cutouts of people holding hands in the outer part of the ring, but there wasn't enough room to make them look good, so I settled on the star points instead... Oh, well.