Wahoo!!! I got it!!! AKA second C8 2010

So here is the follow up to my last disaster post...  Not that it was entirely a write off as I did like the outcome... just wasn't what I had hoped for.  Well after a little sleep and a browse through my English texts I managed to make the pattern I had hoped for.  I got help from one of the Vandervoort books (Temari Adventures).  I hardly use this book because my brain can't handle the abundance of text and diagrams - I know I'm just weird like that. I can't decifer what is going on in this series but inspite of that fact I still have all the books in this set - I keep hoping one day the penny will drop.

I must admit I still wasn't too confident I'd be able to stitch the design so I picked a squishy mari that I had made from dryer lint (and had decided I couldn't stitch on because it was too soft) then used some #16 kreinick thread from my stash (reduced to $2.20).  I decided to ignore the band wrapping and only stitch the top layer... I figured it would save time, would be pretty cheap and wouldn't waste any lovely threads.

Here is how this version turned out.  I have nicknamed it 'Revelation' because when it finally clicked what 'cross over an intersection of 4 then 3 then 4 then 3...' meant the sound of the penny dropping was loud as a sonic boom.

The marking out is a little strange on this one but the real focus was on performing the correct stitch... next time I will work on getting it in the right place in the triangles... but first I need to work out how to find the triangle center.  Mmmm maths not my strong point... but temari is teaching me an awful lot about it!!