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Notebook Entry - 050407

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Source

Japanese book ISBN 4-529-02782-1 Olympus Purple color pg.8 #18, diagram pg. 10 Variation inspired by a pic on a website with 3 different colors of butterflies

Classification

C8, pictoral, interwoven

Size

22cm circumference

Materials

Wrap

dark green cone thread

Marking

removed after stitching or use inconspicuous

Design threads

#5 perle cotton orange, yellow, fuschia for butterflies

#5 perle cotton in 2 shades of green (1 matches mari) for background

Division/Marking

C8

Diagrams

 

Directions

Butterflies are formed by squares stitched at the 8-way intersections, starting halfway out on the straight lines. Background is stitched on diamonds around the 4-way intersections starting halfway out on the lines and interweaving with the squares points. Start the first row on the background diamonds. Use two strands of thread in the needle. To get multicolored butterflies you will need to stitch different corners of the squares in different colors. This one has an orange square at the N pole, yellow at the S pole and fuschia corners along the obi. Also, since I was experimenting, some of the obi squares have half yellow and half orange resulting in two color butterflies. The bodies are long lazy daisy stitches with french knots for heads and straight stitches for antennae.

Notes

This design is simple enough, the challenge was to make butterflies different colors so this ball is a working copy with several techniques on different faces. Note that to use a striped background (greens) the division must be precise and the ball must be very round. This was a stitch along on TT and there is a full pattern write up on temarikai.com.

Given To

Sent to Cousin Cindy