OCtoolguy Posted May 17, 2018 Report Share Posted May 17, 2018 On 5/1/2018 at 1:11 PM, oldhudson said: Some time ago I posted under Pattern Help a request for help creating a pattern for a wedding gift. I did get a couple of great suggestions but decided I'd just give it a go on my own and see what happened. Check the pic and see where I'm at. (All the cuttings in the pic are 1/8" BB pw.) I took a couple of photos at the wedding and from those made a pattern and cut the silhouettes. The Infinity love symbol was on Pineterest. I snipped a copy and enlarged it and cut from that. Then over at DaFonts made the date (this is my 3rd time cutting the date - way too difficult for this OF). I found this background at JoAnnes and the color works well with their wedding because all the men wore red ties and there were loads of red flowers. So my questions are: 1) What color should the cuttings be? I'm leaning to black or natural, but open to your great ideas. 2) There's a small piece of wood in the pic I was thinking of making the frame from, once again - color? I was thinking I'd just BLO it and add a topcoat. The piece in the pic has some naptha on it that sort of mimics BLO, but flashes off after a few minutes. But I'd be happy to paint it any color that works. 3) I really wanted to make a frame that was an ellipse, but at this point that seems like a lot of work and I've never been good at back routing profiles so I'm leaning towards a boring rectangular frame. So go ahead a offer up your suggestions. Thanks for looking! I like white on red. Black would be too dark if you ask me. What you have there now looks great. oldhudson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spirithorse Posted May 18, 2018 Report Share Posted May 18, 2018 I think oyu did a great job. As for the oval frame idea, here are a couple examples that could be used for frames although the original use was borders on intarsia projects. As you will see, each of these examples uses sections to make up the entire oval rather than trying to cut the entire oval out. https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=u7KFToaW&id=32D321893621AD269FF0B087DE6FA7EE2C164399&thid=OIP.u7KFToaW1HytO7LmjL4ZlwHaJ4&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2foriginals%2fbb%2fb2%2f85%2fbbb2854e8696d47cad3bb2e68cbe1997.jpg&exph=760&expw=570&q=praying+hands+intarsia+pattern&simid=608004016652226343&selectedIndex=0&ajaxhist=0 https://intarsia.com/collections/all-patterns/products/i-151-chihuahua-scottie God Bless! Spirithorse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blights69 Posted May 18, 2018 Report Share Posted May 18, 2018 Great job and glad to of perhaps helped in your decision eventually :0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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