Notebook Entry - 071102

Finished Views

red temari stitched with stars and spirals
 
View of three pentagons intersection  
View of hexagon intersection  

Source

None

Classification

C8, C6, 16 face marking, closed shape, star, spiral

Size

24.5cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
red cone thread
Marking
any color, removed after stitching
Design threads
DMC #5 perle cotton dk blue (796), yellow (743)
Gold Rush 18 red

Division/Marking

16 faces marking

Diagrams

line drawing showing placement of hexagons for 16 faces marking
Diagram 1: 16 faces marking from a C8  

Directions

  1. Wrap mari and mark a C8 with a easily removable thread.
  2. Mark a 16 faces marking by adding hexagons around 4 of the 6-way intersections. These are placed as for a 4 center or tetrahedral marking. See diagram 1.
  3. Use two strands of yellow in the needle and stitch five pointed stars in each of the 12 pentagons. Place the stitches right in the corners of the pentagons.
  4. Use two strands of blue in the needle and stitch a row of blue on the stars from the previous step. Stitch the points uwagake or kiku style.
  5. Use the red Gold RUsh to place support lines in the hexagons so that they are split into 12 rather than 6.
  6. Using two strands on the needle and a sequence of blue, red, yellow, red stitch a spiral in each of the 4 hexagons.
  7. Remove all marking lines.

Notes

This is a sample 16 faces design to demonstrate that the pentagons are not quite regular. I really enjoy the tetrahedral geometry of this marking. When you do something distinctive in the hexagons it becomes quite obvious. If you were to do a similar design in each of the pentagons and hexagons it would not be so obvious. It might be fun to try a swirl on this marking.

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