Lark's Head tutorial

10:33 pm - 04/05/2012
For glitterophelia and anyone who has a pendant that won't lay flat and they don't know what to do.



First lets imagine my ring is the loop of your pendant, that piece of tapestry wool is the pretty leather/cotton string you want your pendant to hang nicely from, my laptop is a proper working area and my crappy cellphone is an actual camera. ;)


You pass the string through the loop and unfortunately it looks like this and that won't do:


What you need to do is fold the string in half and pass it through the loop:


Then fold it again, passing both ends through the loop made by the fold in the string:


And then pull.

Your pendant will lie nicely flat like this:


jennetters 5th-Apr-2012 10:42 pm (UTC)
LJ needs a "Like" feature. I was thinking of how you explain this and I appreciate how simply you put it.

Cheers,
888mph 5th-Apr-2012 10:47 pm (UTC)
Indeed it does! And thank you. :)
glitterophelia 5th-Apr-2012 11:54 pm (UTC)
thank you so much for this! now it makes sense!
888mph 6th-Apr-2012 12:02 am (UTC)
:D Glad it helps!
invidious 7th-Apr-2012 09:25 pm (UTC)
I suck at knotting so this is really useful, thank you!
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