The Diva´s challenge: Knightstar

Knightstar (Daniel Lamothe)is a completely new tangle to me. It is logical, but I must say it is a real challenge. Not so much to understand the pattern and do it. But for me it was very easy to get lost in the lines and do something else. That shouldn´t be a problem, patterns often go their own ways and it is possible to let them do so and the outcome might be something unexpected! Well I tried to make something from my "misstakes".

This is from my sketchbook. I was a little happy when I could let the lines go like a broken net when I didn´t get the pattern to work!

Next one I started on Bijou tiles. The first one only got three petals. That´s ok with me, but I still haven´t been able to reproduce the pattern as it "should" be.

This time I thought I got it ! Wanted to try some color and blue was my choice.

This is the third bijou, now trying to get more than one sample of the pattern. Now it is possible to focus on the net, not the petals and that gives the pattern a new dimension. There are problems with the pattern. To embellish it and make it personal is not easy for me. I guess I have to work on it a lot more to really make it mine. But it is interesting. So now I made it on ordinary sized paper, I wanted to have it on watercolor-paper in case I should choose the color in the end....

This is the final tile. It is all drawn freehand with an L-string. And I let the blue come in. The other patterns are Cheesecloth (Suzanne McNeill) and Puf (Carole Ohl). I am not at that point when the Knightstar flow naturally. Maybe I never get there. But it was fun to try this and I am quite satified with the result.