Notebook Entry - 060502

Finished Views

A picture of the temari with bright pink and light blue kite striped kite shapes on a green background
An all-over design temari   A picture showing interwoven triangles and squares with the intersections creating the kite shapes
A view of the design partially finished  

Source

None

Classification

C8, dual cube/octahedron. all-over, open shape

Size

23cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
light green, any color that has low contrast with the design colors will do
Marking
DMC #5 perle cotton, light green(907)In general, use your background color or an inconspicuous thread.
Design threads
DMC #5 perle cotton
light green(907), bright pink(718), bright blue(996)

Division/Marking

C8

Diagrams

C8 line drawing with placement of triangles and squares
Squares and octahedral triangles stitched from the halfway point  

Directions

Stitch alternating small triangles (octahedron faces) and squares starting at the halfway point on the squares' diagonals. Alternate pink and blue rows on both triangles and squares until there are about three rows left then do green to finish.

Notes

Uses the Platonic dual relationship of the cube and octahedron (will be explained in second Platonic Solid study). I like the look of this one when it was partially done. I think I'll have to play with the negative space type design later, perhaps filling in the square areas with more striped stitching and leaving only the funky triangle type shape and plus shape unstitched. Maybe use a textured single color rather than stripes (RG Matte 18?) and use a varigated or other interesting thread wrap.

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