Mix four snowflakes
On the left a sample of lace by Babette.
She invented a double hexagonal ring pair around a snowflake.
The intersections of the double ring pairs are in fact compact snowflakes.
This inspired to explore a mix of snowflakes in general.
The pair diagram of a six pair snowflake can be interpreted as a thread diagram of a three pair connection. Each three pair connection can be composed with a group of two pair stitches. The form below starts with the last step to provide building blocks for a combination of four snowflakes.
On the right the first repeat of the default template:
four groups of stitches with three pairs.
The groups in this example reconstruct a double hexagonal ring pair with an arbitrary snowflake.
The colors of the groups match the hexagons below and the thread diagram.
The pair diagram has a color code that caters for unorthodox stitches.
Click one of the hexagons to replace the groups in the diagrams. An odd number of stitches (minimal three) needs a workaround. We support up to 10 stitches.
Click an image below to assign its recipe to the form:
A collection with recipes can barely scratch the surface of the possibilities as explained on counting snow families We have a few more and instructions to create your own recipes from pair diagrams you find in literature. Clicking a stitch in the pair diagram will remove the color from the corresponding stitch in the thread diagram. This can help to trouble shoot a recipe.
When satisfied with the result, you can follow the link to the pairs from threads page to assign stitches for the actual snowflakes. Even without that last step it can be fun to play with configurations of snowflakes.
Hint: print this page as PDF to collect your own recipes. Reopen in the browser to copy-paste the text field.