Notebook Entry - 070901

Finished Views

A navy blue mari with a red outline floral design
 

Source

none

Classification

C10, multi, multipole, 92, negative space

Size

27.5cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
navy blue cone thread
Marking
Rainbow Gallery Treasure Braid Petite PB44
Design threads
Navy blue DMC Floche (823)
Rainbow Gallery Treasure Braid Petite PB44

Division/Marking

C10 with support lines for a complete 92 multipole

Diagrams

line drawing showing placement of hexagons
 

Directions

  1. Wrap mari and mark a C10 with red metallic.
  2. Add support lines for a complete 92 pole marking. I started with a 32 and then used the multiple of three method once.
  3. Use two strands of navy floche in the needle and work one row on the outside of each pentagon and hexagon (blue on diagram). Keep track of the order so that you can repeat it for round 2.
  4. Repeat step 3 for a second round.
  5. Use red metallic to work one round around each small hexagon intersection created by the previous rows. (red on diagram)

Notes

This was the fourth iteration of this design. I had an idea in my head to use the orange metallic we got at the NY Stitch In this year. It turns out that it was actually red with gold highlights once it came off of the card. Anyway, I had an idea in mind involoving lots of tiny hexagons with floating starbursts in them. I could not quite get it to work out the way I envisioned and then on the fourth try these wonderful little flowers showed up in the negative space. I liked that even more than what I originally envisioned so I worked with it. I think I will try it again on a smaller division. It ended up being quite pleasant to stitch. I worked in rows to help keep track of the stitching order. I started at one pentagon then worked the hexagons around it (placing a pin to mark the first one). Then went back and did the second row on the pentagon and dropped down to do the next round of hexagons below the first row of hexes again placing a pin to mark the first one in the round. Then I did one round of metallic on the little hexagons. Then I went back to the hexs directly below the pent and did their second row...etc. It made it easier to keep track than by working all of the hexes in one go like the sequence I wrote in the instructions. And it was a bit less boring than it would have been to be stitching the same thing over and over again.

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