Notebook Entry - 060701

Finished Views

A wrapped design in shades of pink, purple and blue with a star shape
  View of thread cross overs at obi
  Interesting interactions of the colors at their intersections before the design is finished
A partially done view before I took it out and began stranding the floss. The intersections are interesting.  

Source

Japanese book ISBN 4-8377-0393-3 Temari from Kii color picture pg. 1 bottom, directions pg. 44 but no diagram

Classification

Simple 8, wrapped, crossover

Size

27cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
white cone thread
Marking
Rainbow Gallery Treasure Braid gold
Design threads
Embriodery floss stranded with six strands in the needle at a time. The first color number is Anchor, the second is DMC. light pink (49, 151), dk pink (86, 3608), purple (109, 209), blue (175, 794)

Division/Marking

S8 with obi

Diagrams

line drawing showing placement of wraps
 

Directions

  1. Mark an S8 with obi. You may choose to leave the obi off but mark the placement with pins. I ended up removing the obi line when I was done wrapping.
  2. Decide on an order to wrap the colors. Wrap one round of the starting color on each side of the poles, crossing at the obi line and having a distance of 1.5cm from the N and S pole. See diagram for placement.
  3. Wrap one round of each of the other three colors on both sides of the poles.
  4. For the next round wrap one wrap on both sides of the lines placed in 2 and 3.
  5. Repeat 4 until there are two rounds left before the colors meet at the middle.
  6. Wrap one row on the outside edges only for each color
  7. Wrap one row on the outside and inside edges of each color
  8. Repeat 6 and 7. The last row on the inner parts should be only one wrap rather than two.
  9. Wrap the obi as desired. I decided not to wrap this one because my crossovers were neat enough and I liked the color balance.

Notes

The look of the intersections at the intermediate stages is pretty interesting. It might be worth playing with a design that will take advantage of them, perhaps using a weaving techniques like on #060406,#050704 and #050804. The shapes formed on this are the same as the shapes formed on the designs for the pattern investigation Wrapped Bands on a C8 where the bands were wrapped from the outside into the middle also. I need to try it on a S6 and see if I might be able to do the butterfly shapes. I suspect not though because of the way background colors shape up.

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