alpha teardrop loop problems/triangle ends
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annie_jin
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4 years, 7 months ago by annie_jin
hi, so im making pattern #15136 and there's 7 base strings. i'm watching masha knot's alpha teardrop loop and she added a string in to her base string so i added a base string. so now i have 8 base strings. im onto the next step where it's the triangle ends and since you have to split the strings into half, i have 2,2,2,2. i feel as if my triangle ends are too short. Can i still make triangle ends with only 8 strings??
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Sarah246
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4 years, 7 months ago by Sarah246
@annie_jin I’ve tried it before and it doesn’t show very much, as they’re pretty small, but you can make them still, it just won’t be super obvious 😊
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ginehring
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4 years, 7 months ago by ginehring
You technically can, they triangles will just be very small. For a bracelet that thick I would recommend doing just one triangle, Masha also has a video on how to do a single triangle start/end for alphas (I would recommend the latest video on this as the technique is slightly better). Hope this helps 🙂
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stacey_135
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4 years, 7 months ago by stacey_135
you can still do it but they will be very small, so i would do the loop an inch or shorter or it will look to big
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annie_jin
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4 years, 7 months ago by annie_jin
@Sarah246 @ginehring @stacey_135 thanks guys!! 😊
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annie_jin
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4 years, 7 months ago by annie_jin
um so my triangle ends don't look like triangles, what should i do??
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ginehring
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4 years, 7 months ago by ginehring
You could either continue with the bracelet as/is and live with it not being perfect (not my first choice because I’m a perfectionist😂), or you could untie them and either try again and pay extra close attention to the tutorial or try a different technique for starting the bracelet. If you want to retry without having to untie all the knots you could just cut off the strings and reuse them, but then you would have to redo the loop as well.
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annie_jin
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4 years, 7 months ago by annie_jin
@ginehring okay thank you so much!! ill just stick with my bad triangles because it's my first time making triangle ends so i guess it's ok. thanks again!
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ginehring
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4 years, 7 months ago by ginehring
No problem! I hope the rest of your bracelet turns out well!!
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halokiwi
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4 years, 7 months ago by halokiwi
You could also try doing just one triangle end with all eight strings
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annie_jin
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4 years, 7 months ago by annie_jin
@halokiwi I’m not sure how to do that for an alpha :/
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halokiwi
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4 years, 7 months ago by halokiwi
Sorry, I forgot that you're trying to do a teardrop loop. My thought was that for such a small pattern a triangle end would be more fitting and I forgot that that's not what you want to do.I think the teardrop loop technique for normal patterns would work well if you really wanted to make a teardrop loop. https://youtu.be/dPcpD-i2D0U I think it looks better than the one she explains in this video https://youtu.be/5sW_MjWFF58 and I think it might work better too. |
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