Notebook Entry - 060201

Finished Views

Large multi-pole Hito Hude-Gaki design stitched with multiple colors on black
  Picture showing the temari next to a 1 cup Pyrex measuring cup, about twice the height
1 cup Pyrex measure added for scale  

Source

None

Classification

122 Multi-pole, uwagake chidori kagari

Size

52cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
black cone thread
Marking
Gold Rush 18 gold color
Design threads
#5 perle cotton green (DMC 700) lt purple (DMC 209), dk purple (DMC 208), yellow (DMC 727), lt blue (Anchor 145), dk blue (DMC 796), black (DMC 403)

Division/Marking

122 multi-pole

Diagrams

Line drawing showing the start of the continuous stitching path
Start of HHG path shown; start at dot and work in direction of arrow towards N pole.  

Directions

  1. Mark 122 pole with gold, tack major intersections.
  2. Start stitching HHG path with a yard of one color.
  3. Switch to a new color at the end of each yard and continue stitching along the HHG path.
  4. As you start working back up from the S pole, try to arrange colors so there is minimal color overlap,
  5. Repeat for as many rounds as needed to fill space (I used 3). Keep colors matched even though you will need more than a yard for each row after the first.
  6. Do the last row with black.

Notes

Stitched using a Hitu Hude Gake stitching path with multiple colors. (See HHG pattern for a C10 on TemraiKai.com) It worked right up until the last section on the way to the south pole but then was ok with a minor modification. I would like to explore why it didn't quite work out right. It's a graph theory problem I think.

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