Snow with two droste steps

• More freedom
• How to
• Double worker pairs
• Spidery/Snowy/Asymmetrical connections
• 3/6 pair recipes
• 4/8 pair recipes

More freedom

With two droste steps you have way more options to combine snowflakes than with the snow mixer. The mixer only allows to assign stitches to one or four snowflakes. The price for the freedom: more steps to apply a predefined recipe, that takes only two clicks with the mixer.

How to

You can select any pattern from any catalogue and use plaits with three threads as stitches, for example lclc or rcrcrc between other stitches (or not). This looks like highlighted in the image on the right.

Let us take a mixer recipe from the table as an example.
which is: lclc; tc,rclcrc,clcrcl,ct and flipped: rcrc; tc,lcrclc,crclcr,ct
Apply the lclc and/or rcrc stitches on the stitches page. You can apply the rest of the recipe after following the link to thread diagram as pair diagram.

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Compare the text box and thread diagram of the screenshot with the recipes. You don’t need to edit the big text box, but in this case it can be easier to copy-paste the recipe and edit to get something like the screenshot. The start of the ID-s like c3 and e5 depend on your pattern and where you applied the plait stitches. The number of lines depend on the number of stitches in your snowflake recipe. After applying the broomstick, the lines will get reorganized and the recipe no longer recognizable.

Even when changing stitches by clicking the thread diagram, you need the wand to re-render the diagrams because this page can be very slow. Outdated diagram parts are highlighted grey and black until rerendering.

Note that for the second step, you need to re-render the pair diagram before re-rendering the thread diagram. Otherwise, the changes don’t appear.

Double worker pairs

Another example turns the worker pair of the initial pair diagram into two workers going together from left to right, negotiate a footside and return together through the next row of snowflakes.

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Spidery/Snowy/Asym connections

Traditionally, spiders start with two groups of pairs, and they have two groups of leaving pairs. Traditional six pair snowflakes have three groups of starting/leaving pairs. With the droste method we get asymmetrical connections for 3/6 pair connections.

spidery:   snowy:   asymmetrical:

Note that with 4/8 pairs we can’t divide the pairs into three groups, so we need more to distinguish spiders from snow.

3/6 pair recipes

The table below shows the snow mixer recipes in a format suited for two droste steps explained above. From an overview on the counting snow page, we learn that this gallery covers very little of the possible six pair connections, see tweak recipces for more variations.

Under construction
With two droste steps, we should not need a leading dash for an odd number of stitches to make it an even number. The dash (meaning: skip a stitch) is an accidental feature and can cause problems outside the mixer.

3-pair thread diagram	recipe of the diagram	flipped recipe
	rcrcrc crc,crclctc,ctcrc,rcl,c,c
	lclclc rcl,ctc,crcllc,crrclcr,ctc,cl
	rcrcrc -,ctc,ctc,ctc,ctc,ctc
	lclc tctc,rctcl,ctcl,ctct
	lclc tc,rclcrc,clcrcl,ct	rcrc tc,lcrclc,crclcr,ct
	rcrc tcr,lctc,ctcr,lct
	rcrc tcl,lctc,ctcr,rct
	rcrc t,lctc,ctcr,ctct
	lclclc -,c,ctctc,ctctc,ctctc,c
	lclclc t,rc,ctc,rclcr,ctcl,ct
	lclc t,rctc,ctctcl,ctct
	rcrcrc -,cr,crcl,clcrclcr,rcrcl,c
	lclclc cr,crcl,clcr,crcl,clcr,c
	rcrcrc -,cr,crcl,clcr,crcl,cl
	lclclc -,cl,ctcl,crcrcr,rcr,c
	lclclclc -,lc,crc,clcrc,clcr,c,crc,cl
	rcrcrc -,cr,ctcr,clclc,lcl,c
	rcrcrc ctct,ct,ct,ct,cl,ctc
	rcrc lc,crclclc,crcrclc,cr
	rcrcrc cr,ctcl,ctcr,ctcl,ctc,c
	rcrc r,lrc,ctcr,lct
	rcrcrcrc c,ctc,rclc,ctc,rc,rcl,ctc,c
	lclc rc,clcrc,clctc,rcl
	rcrc lcrc,clcrc,clcrc,clcr
	rcrcrc -,c,ctctc,clcr,rctc,c
	lclclclc r,c,crc,ctc,lcrcl,ctc,crc,cl
	lclclc -,ctc,ct,crc,ctc,ctc
	rcrcrc -,cl,ctctcr,ct,ctc,c

4/8 pair recipes

It is even less possible to be exhaustive for 4/8 pair recipes. The table below is just a start. See also MAE-gf.

The first example is a traditional spider. Note that leading/trailing twists in the initial stitch cause crossed legs in the pair diagram of the first droste step. Assigning just twists to these stitches nicely separates the legs into twisted pairs. Due to the nature of the droste effect, that effect repeats in the second droste step.

The initial stitch in the second example uses all twists for the “bolletje”. So we can’t use the crossed legs trick in the first droste step, we have to add the legs to other stitches. The four ll’s in three stitches of the first droste step become the twisted legs in the second droste step.

Note that repeated actions (repeated twists or repeated crosses) become a single stitch when a thread diagram is used as pair diagram.

Note also that the blob analysis (to capture new spiders/bollletjes) needs slightly different rules. The blobs are not only left or right, we also have blobs in the center.

The recipes in the table can be applied to this pattern.

initial stitch	first droste step	second droste step
ctcctct	g13=ctcctc g18=g19=tt	g133=ctcctc g180=g181=g190=g191=tt
rctcr	g15=c g10=cl g14=clcrll g13=crclcrcl g11=llclcr g12=llclcrclcll	g100=g150=c g110=g120=g128=g144=tt
ctct	g11=g12=ctctc g14=g15=tt
ctct	g12=ctclctc g11=ctcrctc g14=g15=tt