Notebook Entry - 080701

Finished Views


finished view at pentagon intersection  
finished view at triangle intersection  

Source

none

Classification

C10, spindle, interlocked,

Size

30cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
black cone thread
Marking
Rainbow Gallery Goldrush 18 gold color
Design threads
#5 perle cotton black, yellow-orange (DMC972), orange (DMC351), fuscia (DMC718), bright blue (DMC996), green (Anchor 189)

Division/Marking

C10

Diagrams


 

Directions

  1. Wrap mari and mark a C10.
  2. Pick a color to use for the first set of spindles. Start with black and alternate your color to create stripes. End with a color row. The spindles start halfway on the long lines of the pentagon. See diagram.
  3. Use the same color and place the next spindle at a right angle to the first one.
  4. Continue to use the same color and place the spindles at right angles to each other until you have placed 6 spindles. They will not cross each other and there will be one spindle end in each pentagon.
  5. Choose your next color and work a spindle in the next place at any pentagon.
  6. Once again, keep using the same color and place the spindles at right angles to each other until you have completed 6 spindles in that color.
  7. Repeat with the other three colors.

Notes

This design is a dual design with #080303. Essentially it reverses the stars at the pentagons and the points at the triangles. I really love the stripes. It was relatively quick to stitch. Designwise I think I like the 080303 version with the five point stars better. But they make a nice pair mathematically.

While stitching this I thought of three different ways that I could make a similarly structured design. I'll try to describe them here, but I'll probably have to do diagrams in my old fashioned paper notebook to help me remember. I am not sure that any of these ideas would work for the dual design (080303).

  1. I could do this design with crossovers at the pentagon centers like the six petal flower designs in the new Azuma temari book. I could stitch from the outside in or inside out depending on what type of weaving or layering I would like to have. I am confident this one will work out successfully.
  2. I could stitch using large triangles... their verticies would be on the short pentagon line opposite where the end of the spindle is and their sides would be the sides of the spindles. You would end up with overlaps of the shapes at the pentagon intersctions as well as where the sides of the shapes intersect at the 6-way intersections. I am not quite sure how well it would work out.
  3. This one is the one that I am least confident that it will work out. It could end up being too crowded at the pentagon centers. Basically, the spindles in this design travel through two of the 6-part triangles of the C10. Looking at those triangles paired, they make a diamond shape. Stitch an open diamond on the shapes, interlocking or weaving as necessary. They will overlap heavily at the pentagon centers but it might work out.

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