Woodwidow and Chvymn99 asked me to do a thread about my US flag chair, so here it is! Enjoy! There's plenty of books and videos on the basic techniques, so I will simply refer you to the ones I looked at, and focus instead on the pattern. My mom found these pattern books at a yard sale many years ago. I followed the instructions in there, but my mom and sister preferred the YouTube videos. The pattern was actually really easy to do; the trick to it was that there's 3 colors. So it just took a bit of pre-planning to have the colors in the right places. I strung the first 1/3 of the back with blue, for the star board, and the rest with red. Going across, I started with white for the stars and white stripes, then alternating red and white after the star board was complete. When I got to the end of the pattern, the consensus was I should finish with blue to give it a defined edge. But in retrospect, I wish I would have started right into another flag and squeezed a 3rd one on there. For a Canadian flag, the color layout could be much simpler, but the maple leaf pattern would be more challenging. What I would do is overlay a grid on a pic of the flag, then weave over/under each square that covered at least 30-50% of a square. To that effect, this grid is 80 squares across, which should just fit on a "standard" sized chair. Here's a close-up and a progress pic of my chair to try to show how I wove it together: Please share your pics if you make one!
I almost forgot! You will need: Folding chair Approx 200 yards 6mm macramé cord 2 crochet hooks I found that putting the chair up on a picnic table got it to a much more comfortable working height for me.
Thanks for sharing that. I think just having two flags is more balanced that three. I appreciate the pattern you posted as well. I will have to look around and see what I have.
Shawn Curry. Your posts are awesome. The chairs, the stacks, the splitting with no hands( who ever got that picture kudos to you at the GTG). And the milling you do. Not to mention the pallets you make. Please keep it coming.
