Square Plait

Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Jan 24, 2014 6:28 pm **(#1)**

Continuing with my knotwork

AnMal · **Posted:** Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:12 pm **(#2)**

erisian: yay!! you got all the paths right - you'll be a path tool wizard after this

. really good work on the plait panel, a very ambitious project.
here's what happened when i played with your xcf:

Erisian · **Posted:** Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:14 pm **(#3)**

Nice one AnMal! I like the texture.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Fri Jan 24, 2014 7:30 pm **(#4)**

Erisian, I can't help but notice recently you've been a knaughty boy! :rofl

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Jan 25, 2014 5:58 am **(#5)**

odinbc:

he has knot!

i couldn't resist having another play. i looked for this papyrus texture yesterday but couldn't find it, when it showed up this morning i knew i had to try it out....

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Knotty and nice Eris and AnMal, another up and coming team... :teeth

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jan 25, 2014 8:24 am **(#7)**

AnMal - I love it. Papyrus really suits it.

Molly - thank you

Odin - I have relatives in Knottingham :rofl

tonysteele · **Posted:** Sat Jan 25, 2014 12:48 pm **(#8)**

Here_you_go.

Here's-one_I_did_last_week.

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jan 25, 2014 1:12 pm **(#9)**

tonysteele wrote:

Here_you_go.
[ Image ]
Here's-one_I_did_last_week.
[ Image ]

Beautiful work on both. I like your second one. I'll be venturing into more interesting shapes very shortly but I need to get the hang of the paths tool a bit more first so it'll be variations on my plait panel for a while I think.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Wow, those are great tony. I love the colors.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:09 pm **(#11)**

Y'all are doing some nice work with knots. AnMal's looks like a moldy pretzel. :hehe

Have you tried out the Knotter app, yet?

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:19 pm **(#12)**

Mouldy pretzel? :rofl

I'm quite fond of AnMal's mouldy pretzel!

I've tried knotter and a couple of others. They are great programs but there is something more satisfying about DIY knots besides which I don't know if knotter will ever be capable of some of the more complex knots I intend to learn. It's a really really fun program for when you don't want to work too hard though. :hehe

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jan 25, 2014 3:49 pm **(#13)**

conbagui wrote:

Erisian: Can you create a Tutorial? I would like to know how you created the Knots.

Everybody: Nice work :coolthup

I will try for you.

Erisian · **Posted:** Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:15 pm **(#14)**

conbagui wrote:

Erisian: Can you create a Tutorial? I would like to know how you created the Knots.

Everybody: Nice work :coolthup

AnMal has done a tutorial for two simple knots you can start with.
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=5887

AnMal · **Posted:** Sat Jan 25, 2014 6:46 pm **(#15)**

gnu tux: did i hear something about mouldy pretzels? :hoh

tonysteele: oooh, i like that!! i've done some knotwork machine embroidery for real but never tried it in gimp

.

erisian: thanks for almost defending my knotwork. i won't forget that you laughed first though.... :hoh

sallyanne · **Posted:** Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:09 am **(#16)**

Nice knot Erisian. Good to see you using them in your signature and avatar as well.
I still cant work knotter out to get a good knot. I might need to look at that tutorial of Anmal's

Erisian · **Posted:** Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:57 am **(#17)**

I'm going to try writing a tutorial myself. The main difficulty is learning to use the paths tool - the knot itself is often easier than it looks. For example, in my plait panel you only have to learn to make three pieces; one corner, one edge and one middle piece, the rest is done with duplicating, rotating and moving. Also, you only have to do one quarter of the plait then duplicate it and rotate it to get the other three quarters.