Notebook Entry - 060512

Finished Views

A red and orange all over design with green accents
  View showing square formed at N pole
N pole view   View showing triangle (orange) and hexagons (red) formed at alternating 6-way intersections
6-way intersection view   View after 2 rounds of stitching
Partially finished  

Source

Japanese book Folk Craft Temari, ISBN 4-8377-0890-0 pg. 12 middle (green and orange) pg 13 left side of big picture (red and purple), diagram pg 64

Classification

C8, all over, dual tetrahedra, open shapes, interwoven

Size

19cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
kindof icky dusty rose color, will be completely covered
Marking
Gold Rush 18 black color, only the smallest amount shows in the middle of the shapes
Design threads
Olympus #5 perle cotton red (701), orange(1051), green (2022)

Division/Marking

C8

Diagrams

line drawing showing placement of large and small triangles
Large tetrahedral triangles in red, small ones in blue  

Directions

  1. Mark a C8.
  2. Plan a way to keep track of the stitching order on this one since it is an interwoven design. I placed a red pin marking my start for the first set of large tetrahedral triangles and a white pin to mark the start of the other set. I think you can see them in the unfinished picture.
  3. Stitch the large triangles with 1 row red. See diagram, bold red ABC for placement, note light red triangles for overlap. There are 8 all together.
  4. Stitch the small triangles with 1 row orange. See diagram, bold blue abc for placement, note light blue triangles for overlap. There are 8 all together.
  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the ball is covered. Use 2 rows color (red or orange), 1 row green.
  6. End with the second row of red and orange, then do one row green on the large triangles.

Notes

Don't do this design on this small of a ball. The curvature of the surface makes it pretty difficult to get the threads to lay properly. Other than that, I really like the finished look of the design. The pictures in the book show that you can get quite different effects by playing with color placement and contrast. I almost decided to switch the red and orange on the last rounds. I think it might lend itself to doing interlocked rather than interwoven shapes as well. Might be fun to play with some more later. I chose the wrap thread color in my collection that I like the least but I found that it looked ok with the red and orange together. I might need to explore that colorway. (See the unfinished pic at the top.) The core of this mari is a large rubber bouncy ball. Even with a good sized yarn wrap and an all over design stitched, it retains much of its bounce. (Thanks to Elsie on talktemari for the idea of using a bouncy ball for the core.)

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