11. Rainbow Arch Heart
This Rainbow Arch Heart features a full colour rainbow of thread. Starting at the bottom point by turning the heart upside down on the pillow helped to create the little rainbow in the passives around the top curves, made as they were thrown out.
The arch is based on the Torchon spider 'arch' which can be made using different numbers of pairs. This heart presented a tidy 7 pins so it just called out to be made with colours of the rainbow.
Variations will alter the path of the top threads. Half stitch is to be avoided because it will mix up the colours. Some of the twists out to the trail can be moved into the weaved area, instead of one twist between the colours, try two. There needs to be enough twists to reach the sides, too many and the lines will try and twist. I used 6-9 twists on the small heart.
Use a pin instead of the bead for a tighter arch. Start at the top and work down to the point for a different effect with the threads being carried along with the passives before they are thrown out. Tie off the exiting threads instead of running them along the passives for a consistant colour edge trail.
Unfortunately I was too eager to finish and cut off the thrown out threads before I spotted a mistake in my finish at the top valley so it didn't turn out as well as I wanted. My aim is to finish the 24 hearts before Christmas Day so I will return to remake this one at a later date.
This took 24 pairs, using10 pairs for the edge working in both directions, and 14 pairs of colours, two of each. I wound plenty onto one bobbin, and only a little on the other, this way I have a full wound bobbins which I can winding from one to the other a little at a time for rainbow colour effects in other pieces.
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