I just doubled my pattern collection by switching to Profile Drafts!

Yes, that is right folks!  Profile drafts are totally amazing, and you can go both ways with a profile draft.  You don't have to use a profile draft just to change it into something else.  Imagine taking a overshot pattern and turning it back into a profile draft!!  And then using it in something else like summer and winter, or M&O's, or lace weave!  It's totally amazing!  That is what I did for Lee's Surrender, just to see if I could!  This is how I did it:

1,2 =A
2,3 = B
3,4 = C
1,4 = D

Every combination has to be counted as a block, so take the middle part of Lee's surrender as a sample:

See at the bottom right edge?  Count all the 1,4 or 4,1 combinations:

There are 7 combinations, so in your profile draft you would fill in 7 squares for the D block.  Fill in the 7 blocks in both the threading and treadling sections.

Then, count the next section in the pattern.  I color-coordinated this one to make a little easier to see the pairs if you haven't caught on yet.

The 1,2 combination is block A.  So add 4 block A's to your profile draft in both the threading and treadling sections.

Again, go back to your main pattern and find the next combination.  It is 2 blocks of D.

Compare the two blocks at this point.  The left one is the profile draft and the right one is the original draft.  I color coded major sections so you can compare and see that they are the same. The profile draft is just missing the "overshot" parts (aka the half tones), but that is the whole point!

Keeping in mind the original "key" to transform this back, keep on going through the rest of the threading.

1,2 =A
2,3 = B
3,4 = C
1,4 = D


Now you can take this profile draft idea and transform any overshot pattern you want to into something else.  For example, I want to make Lee's Surrender in summer and winter, just because I can!  Maybe someday I will make a rug out of Lee's surrender, and summer and winter make a much better rug pattern than overshot because it doesn't have long floats of threads in the warp.


Here is 1/4 of Lee's surrender in profile form.  This would have to be repeated over several sections to get the entire draft.  But profile drafts are usually written a bit more compact anyway!

Also, now that we have the profile draft, we could change sections of it to be bigger or smaller.  That is the beauty of the profile draft!