Notebook Entry - 060402

Finished Views

Temari stitched with multiple colors of octagons showing a ladder effect to the stitches
 

Source

Stitching technique is my own applied to source pattern. Japanese book Olympus Purple, ISBN 4-529-02782-1 page 2 ball #2, diagram pg 89

Classification

C8, support lines, solid shape, alternating stitch and row kagari

Size

26cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
cream cone thread, random gold overwrap
Marking
Gold Rush 18 white gold color matching the gold overwrap color
Design threads
#5 perle cotton black, burgundy, dk orange (A 339), dk green (DMC 319), dk purple (DMC 550), brown (380), dusty blue

Division/Marking

C8 with support lines

Diagrams

line drawing showing placement of support lines and one octagon
Support lines are dotted lines (black and red), Octagon show in grey  

Directions

  1. Add gold suppport lines to split 8 centers into 16 (black dotted lines).
  2. Use gold to connect the points around the 6 centers to form triangles (red dotted lines).
  3. Use new alternating stitch and row kagari technique in octagons. Stitch an octagon on each face using the support lines for stitches starting as close as you can to the center (grey octagon on diagram). Stop just before the octagons meet the triangle lines.
  4. Stitch two black rows of regular kagari.
  5. Add one row of gold between the octagons.

Notes

This support line configuration creates one of the Archimedean Solids, a truncated cube.

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