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4 Complete all four of the Carrick Knots for each 5 finish this handsome Carrick Cross mat with

vertex and start the doubling.
three bights at the end of each arm.

Brian named this next version the Greek Cross. It is
emblem on the Swiss national flag. It may also be 3 insert the second
made with three pieces of cord and has three bights
at each arm’s end. It also resembles the shape of the
cord, here white,
and overhand loop,
made with a single cord if you develop more bights to match the turn
along each arm, as seen in Skip Pennock’s version ensuring the over,
under on the first
next below. cord.

1 start in the middle of one

cord with an anticlockwise
overhand loop…

2 – then make a second similar loop on the right 4 follow the same pattern of the first cord, with

overhand and underhand loops, again ensuring
and a third loop on the left, but this one is
the interlocking of the two cords.
clockwise and underhand.