This is my way of joining with the Solomon’s knot.
I will show you with the photos how I join with the Solomon’s knot. How to work the Solomon’s knot you can learn here.

Photo 1: Detail of the completed sample with the Solomon’s knot.

Photo 2: Using safety-pins to pin the paisleys at a temporary background.

Photo 3: Start with chain 2, sc in first ch, making 2 Solomon’s knot and joining to the opposite paisley.
You can join with a sc or a slip-stitch.

Photo 4: Chain 1 before starting the next Solomon’s knot (optional) and joining with the first sc.

I like to chain 1 each time when I have to turn, but you do not have to do this if you don’t want to. My first samples I made without this chain 1.

Photo 5: I made another Solomon’s Knot (SK) and joined again with the opposite paisley. Then I did chain 1, SK 2, joining the same paisley, chain 1, SK 1, joining with the third paisley. ch 1, SK 1, join in middle of SK 2…..

Photo 6: In this way I go on, just looking to what is necessarry to fill in the space.

Photo 7: The space in between the paisleys has been filled. I now reach the outside. I go on with repeating {SK 2, join with the paisley}, till the next gap or next paisley.

Photo 8: Now I will have to join with the 4th paisley. I need 4 Solomon’s Knots to bridge the distance.

Photo 9: I decided first to fill in the space within…

Photo 10: Continuing and also connecting to the fifth paisley.

Photo 11: After filling all the space within, I continued at the outside and reached the point where I started Solomon’s Knots at the outside. So here I can already start a second round.

Photo 12: Making Solomon’s Knots picots

Make 3 Solomon’s Knots, sc in first SK, make another SK and connect with previous row as at the photo.

Photo 13: Here there is still no previous row. But I decided that I wanted here just only the one row of SK picots. So just going on making picots.

Photo 14: Finished! Now the safety pins can be removed.

Photo 15: So this is how it looks now.