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Inspiration: This temari pattern was found through experimentation. A similar pattern is found in ISBN:4837703917 page 8.
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Marking and Preparation: The ball is 25cm and is marked in a C10 pattern with marking threads being single metallic red thread. A second marking line is added that creates offset pentagons within the C10 marking lines. See the green lines in the diagram below.
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Stitching the
Design: This is a 2-layer design. The diagram on the left
shows the 2 layers as red and blue. The darker colours show the
starting row of the pattern and the lighter colour shows the last row
of the pattern. 1. The first layer, shown as red in the diagram, uses the triangles as the framework. On the detail diagram (below) note the location of the 9 black dots within the triangle, 6 are located on the blue secondary marking lines just inside the triangle (2,4,6,8,10,12) ; these are the outer anchor points. The 3 black dots closest to the centre of the triangle are the upper anchor points (3,7,11). These 3 points are located 1/2 way from the centre of the triangle. |
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The first row, shown in red,
starts just inside the point of the triangle, shown as 1 on the detail
sketch and continues down to the first black dot, 2, then using a kiku
stitch moves to the upper black dot, 3 then to the next outer black dot
4. Then follow the numbers around until you get back to the starting
point. Repeat for 3 rows until the points inside the triangle meet.
Repeat for all triangles. 2. The second layer is a typical 5 point star starting as close to the center of the C10 pentagons as possible and going up to the ½ way point of the adjacent line. See the blue star in diagram 1. Use 3 rows of pink, one row of white and one row of green. This should bring the points of the star to the same junction point as the first layer. |