Notebook Entry - 060206

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Source

Japanese book ISBN 4-8377-0281-3 Cosmo 3, pic page 1 bottom, design pg 34

Classification

north south, interlocked, Simple 8

Size

25cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
dk green cone thread
Marking
Gold Rush 18 gold color
Design threads
#5 perle cotton DMC
Burgundy, Dk green (319, matches thread wrap), yellow (726), orange (946), purple (550)

Division/Marking

S8 w/obi

Diagrams

line drawing to show stitching path
 

Directions

  1. Stitch a zig zag around the ball starting on line 1 halfway between the N pole and obi (A), crossing the obi at line 2, and taking the bottom stitch halfway to the S pole on line 3 (B). Continue in this manner back to the starting point (C, D, back to A). You'll have N pole stitches on lines 1 and 5, and S pole stitches on lines 3 and 7.
  2. Skip a line and work another zig zag using the next line (a, b, c, d, back to a). You'll now have N pole points on lines 1,3,5, and 7.
  3. Continue to alternate lines until you have a wide enough band of your first color. (red band on sample)
  4. Start a new band on line 2, using the stitching path as described above. This band will go over the band you stitched in step 4. You'll have stitches on lines 2,4,6,and 8 now. (purple band on sample)
  5. Go back to line 1 and stitch another band. This one will lie over the band you stitched in step 5. (green band on sample)
  6. Go to line 2 and stitch another band. This time you must weave under the first band (step 4, red) and over the third band (step 6, green). (orange band on sample)
  7. Go back to line 1 and stitch the last band, weaving under band two (step 5, purple) and over band four (step 7, orange). (yellow band on sample)
  8. Wrap the obi to secure the thread bundles and embelish the pole space as desired.

Notes

Worked for JTA level 1 certification. Instructions written up in more detail on Temarikai.com. This is the second one I did in this pattern (see 060103). I did not pay close attention to my closing stitches and so ended up with mismatched stitches on the first one and had to redo it. Need to keep the N pole up the whole time and need to make sure all stitches are oriented the same way (slip thread under the beginning stitch of each row). Examining 060103 closely and redoing it as this one are what gave me the idea for the alternating kagari stitching investigation.

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