Ok so after making two C10's in a row I decided to try a C8. I had seen a lovely set of snowflake inspired temari on Jane C's blog World Embroideries a while ago and really like the idea of trying something similar. In the image below you can see the red ball I was aiming for. The pattern is in Cosmo 2 Page 4 ball 6. I really liked the idea and I set to work with a small 21cm ball and marked the C8 and wrapped the bands on the S4 & Eq. Given the limited amount of text in the pattern (which I admit I didn't even try to translate) and the funky diagram I decided that perhaps the next thing to do was the band on the 6 part triangle. Then that is where I got stumped. I don't know why but I just couldn't work out the rest. My brain just stuck in neutral I was grinding away at the gears but none were engaging. In the end I had a smallish size tantrum and decided to forget the pattern tidy up the ball and go to bed. So this is what I came up with.
I knotted the 6 part triangle intersections, on the band intersections I stitched a single square over them to keep everything ship shape. I quite like how the ball turned out even though it was NOTHING like the original design. Looking again at the pattern today I can almost follow it and I am sure I have this design in one of the English books in my collection so I will go back to the drawing board and try again... when my brain is a little more rested.
I've never done one of these but have also been tempted, especially after seeing Jane's lovely ones. The diagrams looks like the last step is stitching a continuous path (renzoku) around the ball. Cool! Must try it :)
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Renzoku kagari is the stitch used here. Thanks for the tip Barb I didn't know what it was called but the definition seems to fit. I finally managed to do this ball the right way. Next time I might get both layer going and will have achieved the entire look. Thanks we also like the slideshow function.
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