A new topic... and a knotty question...

[Frayed Knot Arts]

Over on the PAB branch website there are some pictures of a macrame piece done by the ever-popular and always-lovely Mr. Geoff Budworth.   The macrame is (as one would expect) a stunning work, but what really makes me koo-koo is how he ended the work off.

http://www.igktpab.org/igkt_galleries/macrame/images/image18.jpg   (last pic in the series)

Obviously, he brought the knotting down to a point and then added the three rows of half-hitches as a finial, but it looks like he's taken the outboard half-hitch's working line and tucked it along side his main line, then half-hitched over the two and snipped the "old" working part off, then taken the working part of the latest half-hitch and repeated the process until he got to the centre point.  I'm pretty sure that's correct, if a bit obsfucatory.  (Clear as mud...)

But how the heck did he do the centre-point? 

Anyone having a clue or a better way with words than I is invited to chime in on this...  it's an elegant and eye-pleasing method, entirely, and I'd love to learn it.

[SS369]

All else fails, I reckon contact with Mr. Budworth may be in order.

[Frayed Knot Arts]

That'd be cheating!

[aknotter]

Vince,
   
I'll try to remember to get some closeup pix of that stuff when we next have a display. The next one I see scheduled is Earth Day on the 26th of April. So I will try to get a couple of very close shots of the front and back of Budworth's piece. (In the hope the pix will make it clear how it was done???)

[Frayed Knot Arts]

That'd be super!  The front shots as posted are great, but a back shot would really be a treat! (Well, pictures of ANY of Geoff's work are a treat, in any case!)

Thanks!