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Wrap and mark a 24cm
circumference (3 inch diameter) mari. The pattern focuses on the
triangles formed around each pole. You will stitch a rose garden
element using the two sets of three lines formed at the middle
intersections of the triangles. Start stitching close to the
intersection of the six lines. With your first color, stitch one round
from points A, B, C back to A. With the second color, stitch one
round from points 1, 2, 3 back to 1. Keep stitching this sequence,
alternating one round of each color until you begin to approach the
outer triangle boundary lines.
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When the points of the triangles
you are stitching begin to approach the outer marking boundaries of the
marked triangles, you will "bury' the stitches in the mari wrap to make
the points "disappear". This is how you maintain the straight edges
along the rose garden sections. Says Debi : " photo at left shows the
white stitches sunk into the mari just
before the division line (circled area). This was only necessary
on the white triangle,
the one rotated from the orientation of the triangle determined by the
marking threads, and only
needed a few
rows." |
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From Debi: "this photo shows the
triangle completed with extra white rows
along the outside.
I did the white triangles last before adding them so the final
triangles
have nice points. |
Debi reworked this pattern in sharper colors, and the progress is shown
here:
Says Debi: It is more efficient to do the whole ball in rounds...that
is work the first color round
on all triangles, then the second color, then repeat. That is
quicker and more efficient than doing
one triangle at a time. When you get near the end though, 1 or
two rounds left, it is probably
good to switch to completing each triangle individually. You can
do extra rounds to
even things out but keep them paired...do both a first color and a
second color on the triangle to keep
the design going. As long as it is only 1 or 2 rounds it doesn't
show on the finished ball
as much as extra outlining rows would.
Lastly, it is relatively easy to groom the threads at the triangles
when you are done to clean up any areas where the edges of the overlaps
don't look nice and
smooth. Put your needle under the thread of one color only and
slide it gently toward
the crossover area. If you slide it too far you will make the
triangles uneven, in that case
just put it in again under the other color and slide it back.
