didn't expect to see THAT, did you?
the template for my frame is made from two pieces of book board. the "photo" on the inside is the knitting tarot's nine of skeins figure. she's cute, and since i have been waxing poetic about these little faces lately, i decided that this one -- a recent favorite -- needed a frame.
the instructions state that one should be using very coarse, and brown, if possible, thread. i find this interesting, and wonder why, in the victorian era, brown coarseness was so intrinsic to the needs of this frame. but sometimes there's no better reason to do a thing than that dead victorians told you to. i, of course, ignored them. i used black.
i stuck upholstery tacks into all the corners (the bookboard is thick enough to allow for this) so that the yarn didn't slide off the points of the star. thread coverage over the bookboard is not 100% perfect, but for the time and energy put into this prototype, i am not displeased. this frame reminds me of the god's eyes my sioux indian girl-cousins made for gifts for the family shortly after they were adopted. i see no evidence that the god's eye has anything to do with being a sioux, though. but i really like the complex multiple god's eyes.