Notebook Entry - 050504

Finished Views

A red, white and blue temari with diamond and triangle shapes
 

Source

Japanese book ISBN 4-8377-0283-0 Cosmo 5, color pic pg 2 ball #5, diagram pg 50

Classification

C8, interwoven, pine needle

Size

20.5cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
white cone thread
Marking
same as wrap
Design threads
Vikki Clayton Reeled Silk Perle #8 Red, White, Blue mix Rainbow Gallery Grandeur Red G821 (silk perle #5) RG Elegance Blue E854 (silk perle #8) Gold Rush 18 Gold

Division/Marking

C8

Diagrams

Line drawing showing placement of open spindles
 

Directions

  1. Wrap a mari in white. Mark an 8-combination in an inconspicuous thread.
  2. You will be stitching 6 different interwoven open spindles. Since this is an interwoven design it is important to maintain the same stitching order throughout. Start with the red thread.
    • Stitch one row using points 1, 2 (orange on diagram) then 1', 2' (brown on diagram, on the back of the ball).
    • Stitch one row using A, B (light green on diagram, point B is on the back of the ball) and A', B' (purple on diagram, point B' is on the back).
    • Stitch one row using points a, b (dark green on diagram) and a', b' (blue on diagram).
  3. Repeat step 2 until the triangles and diamonds created are as large as you want. There are about 10 rows on the sample: 2 rows red, 4 or 5 rows variegated, 2 rows red. The last rows may slip a little but the final step will hold them in place. Use pins in the meantime if it is a problem.
  4. Stitch one row of gold around each triangle (8 of them) and diamond (6 of them) created at the intersections of the spindles.
  5. Add gold straight stitches on the edges inside the funny shapes that gets filled with blue. (See finished picture.)
  6. Fill in the odd shaped negative space with parallel blue straight stitches.

Notes

Written up as a variation on a pattern for TemariKai pattern pages. (Direct link here) This variation used variegated bands that were interwoven creating striped triangle and rhombus shapes. Wider bands require pins to help threads stay in place until you do a last round of gold around the individual shapes to hold them in place. This is the same design as #050306, #050401, and #050408.

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