Notebook Entry - 100301

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Source

my own design

Classification

Size

28cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
white cone thread
Marking
Rainbow Gallery Treasure Braid Petite, Gold
Design threads
Anchor #5 perle cotton blue (discontinued color #941), green (#264 not sure if this one is discontinued)
Rainbow Gallery Gold Rush 18, gold

Division/Marking

S16

Directions

  1. Wrap mari and mark S16 with metallic.
  2. Add support lines parallel to the equator at a distance of 15mm.
  3. Use thimble stitching to stitch a thimble ring around the equator in a modified bi-colored scales design: two alternating stitching paths (blue, green) across one section. Add a gold row at row #6 and 11.
  4. Stitch an 8 point polygon star above the equator stitching. Use blue with the points being in the middle of the blue sections of the ring and about 1/4 inch or 6mm above it.To stitch the star, start at one blue section, skip the next two blue sections then take a stitch at the third section. Continue until you come back to your initial stitch. Stitch 3 rows blue, one row gold, one row blue.
  5. Repeat on the other side of the ball with green.
  6. Stitch a smaller 8 point polygon star inside the larger one. The colors are opposite and the points go in the non-point sections of the marking. The spacing and number of rows is the same.

Notes

Once again I am being lazy and not doing a diargram for this one right now. (Too many other things I am in the middle of...) But I think the directions are fairly straightforward without one. I didn't like this one at first when I just stitched the thimble part but I let it sit and talk to me for a few days and now I am really happy with the result. The large polygon stars gave me the density of stitching I was looking for as well as maintaining the horizontal lines of the desing. Then the smaller ones transitioned nicely from the horizontal lines to a more radial appearance at the poles.

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