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Notebook Entry - 060704

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Source

Japanese book ISBN 4-8377-0281-3 Cosmo 3 pg. 4 #5 no diagram

Classification

C10, rose garden, open shape, interwoven, layered

Size

27cm circumference

Materials

Wrap

yellow cone thread

Marking

Olympus gold

Design threads

DMC #5 perle cotton light green(907), medium green(702), light purple(211), medium purple(209), dark purple(552)

Division/Marking

C10

Diagrams

 
After the green layer  
After the triangle layer, note single triangle highlighted  

Directions

1. Wrap and mark a C10.
2. Stitch zigzags that make up the green layer. One row dark green, two rows light green, one row dark green. Be consistent in the order you stitch them so the layering works out nicely. These rows start close to the 6-way intersections and move out. (shitagake stitching)
3. Stitch large triangles (purple on diagram). Complete one row on each before doing the next round and be consistent in the order you stitch them. Do two rows medium purple, two rows light purple. Pay attention to the lie of the threads at the 10-way intersections to get the nice star shapes. These stitches start just outside of the last green stitches and are stitched with regular kagari.
4. Work rose gardens around each of the 10-way intersections. The number of rows needed will vary with the size of the mari. Start on the lines not used for the triangles just outside of the place where the triangles crossed each other (blue on diagram). Stitch 3 rows of light purple in a pentagon.
5. Switch to the alternate lines (red on diagram) and stitch anoother 3 rows of light purple.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 with medium purple doing three rows on the first pentagon and 4 rows on the second.
7. Stitch the last pentagon with dark purple and five rows. The last row should just cover the medium purple stitches from the previous step and just come to the stitches from the triangles.

Notes

Once again I found a design in a Japanese book using these large triangles on a C10. I have started to call them 'my favorite triangles'. Some interesting things I noted when I stitched this design:

• When I did the first round of green the zigzags outlined interesting shapes on the C10 that might be interesting to explore for design centers later. I started at one 6-way intersection and worked all three paths possible and liked what I saw. The light was bad so I didn't take a picture. I'll replicate it another time.
• I continue to be intrigued by these large triangles. The star shape they create at the 10-way intersections can vary quite a bit depending on the spacing of the stitches. There is potential to play with color as well as weaving vs interlocking and with stitch type such as uwagake and shitagake rather than the usual kagari.
• The shapes created by the large triangles are very similar to the lines created when I placed the 5 cubes on the C10 for the platonic solid study. They are not tetrahedral triangles.

Another interesting note about this temari: it was a delight to start stitching because I ended up reusing the mari from another one I did earlier. (#060605) Since that one was such an experiment and the thread was so slippy I decided to just pull out the design threads and it left me with a very nicely marked C10 without all the usual prep. Cool. I wish every C10 I did was pre-marked.

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