The problem showed up immediately when I had a good look at the amethyst runner…..I made the mistake of treadling the end sequence exactly the same as the beginning sequence but in reverse and consequently I ended up with one extra block! I love this runner and wanted to salvage it, so I decided to pull out the hems to get to the problem. I had to pull out the 3 inch hems on each end to get to the mistake and then pull out the extra 4 picks that made the mistake. I then hemstitched the ends and thought I’d twist the fringe to finish the runner. Well, it turns out the fringe is too far short to be twisted and I didn’t want to leave the fringe as it was so I decided to do some wrapping. Here’s a short tutorial on what I did to find the solution!
I cut a piece of the linen yarn about 10 inches long and folded it over about a third of the way down.
Holding the group of fringe that I wanted to bind together I put the looped yarn along side the fringe bout and held it in my left hand. I held the long tail of the linen yarn in my right hand.
Holding the loop to the fringe bout I tightly wrapped the yarn around my fringe group four times.
I made sure that the loop of yarn remained above my wrapping.
Holding the wrapped bout firmly in place, I threaded the long tail of the linen yarn through a large eye needle.
I put the needle under the wrapped yarn and came out behind the loop.
Then I picked up the short yarn tail and the long yarn tail and I pulled them tightly until the loop disappeared.
This makes a knot under the wrapped yarn and tightens the wrapping securely in place.
Using the needle again I pulled the long tail from the top of the wrapping back underneath the wraps to secure it and left it to hang in the fringe.
I wanted the wraps to sit about one third of the way down; my goal was to add both a decorative element and a stabilizing element.
Here it is ~ job done!
I feel I came up with a really interesting solution to my miss-weaving and too short fringe and I’m really happy with the finished product. This view is the front and back together ~ again before final pressing....gotta get onto that!