Multipole play

I found a little temari (less than 2 inches across) in my drawer when I was cleaning out recently. It was one I had just quickie marked with a 14 center marking when one of the chat groups was trying to figure that out. It spoke to me…

That’s right. I could hear the little voice in my head, “You know you want to stitch on me. Don’t you think I would be pretty stitched up in a version of the last continuous path design you did? Maybe you could add a little sparkle? I’m so cute and small…”

(Don’t tell anyone I’m hearing voices ok? They’ll think I’m crazy.)

So, I went digging for thread to stitch with. The colors I found just didn’t work on the wrap the little guy had so to his surprise I ripped out the marking (promising to put it back later) and added a new thread wrap. Then to be true to his wishes, I used a Kreinik braid to do the marking.

So, the marking is 14 centers which just happens to be a multipole based on a C8 rather than a C10. I marked the C8, did one pass of the multiple of 3 technique and voila! A lovely 14 center marking. There are 8 hexagons and 6 smaller squares. It is analogous to the 32 center marking on the C10. You could also get to it by using the multipole method of triangle side divided by 3.

Now I get to stitch on it!