New Techniques - Leno

Maybe I was just tired by the end of my exciting day of testing, but learning "Leno" was mind bending. Kenzo opened the shed took two threads and held them up, then he took two more (about 4 threads away) and crossed them over.  He repeated this four or five times to make the Leno pattern.  

My first attempt had cross overs with a straight thread in between.  It looked okay, but it wasn't what Kenzo did.  My second attempt was to keep the shed down and cross two sets of adjacent threads.  I didn't like the result.  Third attempt was to keep the shed down pick up two threads, skip four, and then pick up two and cross them.  Much better, but still not what Kenzo showed me.

He came back by and showed me again.  Then he showed me four threads alternated with four threads (shed down) - I'd already figured that one out by myself.  

To me it looks like scars.  

This is my favorite section.  I did it Kenzo's way, did a few plain rows in between, and then twisted again.  I think they look like pineapples.  

I got a little carried away by making "pineapples."