Notebook Entry - 060601

Finished Views

Four dragonflies pointing at the N pole
N pole view   Two dragonflies facing intersection, two facing away
8-way intersection on obi   Dragonfly on 6-way intersection
Close up of dragonfly  

Source

Japanese book ISBN 4-8377-0885-4 Cosmo 7, pg 7 ball #4, diagram pg 38

Classification

C8, partial starburst, beaded, octahedral

Size

22cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
Med blue wooly nylon
Marking
Olympus gold metallic
Design threads
Rainbow Gallery Bravo! color #A111
Gumnuts Poppies dk purple

Division/Marking

C8

Diagrams

line drawing to show placement of partial starburst stitches for the four dragonflies
Placement of dragonflies on N and S poles   line drawing to show placement of partial starburst stitches for the dragonflies at obi squares
Placement of dragonflies on obi squares   line drawing to show stitching order on partial starburst stitch
Closeup of stitching order on dragonflies  

Directions

  1. Mark an S8 with gold.
  2. Work partial starburst stitches to create the wings of the dragonflies. Do the N pole first, then the S pole. The placement for the squares at the obi will work themselves out. Separate the Bravo and use two strands in the needle. See diagram 1 and 2 for placement, diagram 3 for stitch order. Note that diagram 3 shows only three stitches per wing...there are 6 on the sample.
  3. Add purple single row spindles for the bodies, see diagram 3 for placement. Use two strands in the needle.
  4. Add gold stitches at the 8-way intersections as shown with blue lines on diagrams 1 and 2.
  5. Add beads for the eyes at the end of the spindle stitch using gold thread.

Notes

This is a fairly simple pattern to stitch. Since the dragonflies are based on the triangle shape they could be easily adapted to other geometries such at tetrahedral triangles on a C6 or icosahedral triangles on a C10. The original design was done with three shades of a single color for the wings rather than a variegated thread. I did this one for Patty and will send it out later when I get a few more done for her.

Given To

No one yet