The second row of the medallion has 3 sequins on each of 4 sides along with a ring joined to the base of the ring on the first row. I figured it would be simple to just replace the sequins with rings, but keeping to the same design would have resulted in 4 rings and 4 chains on each side or a total of 16 and not the 12 I wanted. So, instead, I went with 3 rings on a side which doesn't frame the centre in the same way, but it works.
Since I was trying to replace the sequins with rings, I used rings of 5-5-5-5 which are kind of large, but the size and numbers worked.
Once I had my 12 outward facing rings, I needed to pare them down to six and create a point for each arm of the snowflake. To keep it simple I just went with larger 6-6-6-6 rings in a 4 ring grouping and an outward facing ring for the point.
The finished snowflake is 4.5 inches point to point done in size 20 thread. It's large open and not very frilly, but I think I like it anyway. Going with smaller rings would make it more petite and delicate looking and of course adding a lot more picots would make it more frilly. Anyway, here is the pattern for you to enjoy.
6 comments:
This is very beautiful can't have too many snowflake patterns in life:) I will give it a try! Thank you nice present for us all!
Wonderful evolution of a design!
Thank you Sharon, that is very interesting to see how you did the transition. Thanks for the pattern.
Very nice snowflake!! :)
Thank you very much for this pattern, Sharon.But thank you even more for your encouragements. Thanks to you I designed a snowflake myself. It is very simple, but genuine. I hope to be able to display it on my new blog in January.
Teachers are great!!
Interesting way to get six sides out of four central rings! As usual, a wonderful diagram, too! Thanks so much for sharing this lovely snowflake!
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