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Valentine Temari
Materials: #5 |
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| Prepare the ball by placing pins to mark an S8 division. Alternate pin colors at the equator as shown. With #8 Pearl cotton in red (or double strand of base thread), mark an S4 division on the pink pins, as shown. Do not mark the equator. | With #5 Pearl cotton in white, mark an S4 division with an equator on the blue pins as shown |
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| At the equator, there will be four 4-spoke white
intersections. These intersections will be the center of the extra
marking lines for a C8 division. Make these marking lines with #8 Pearl
cotton in red. Be sure to weave under or stitch under where the red and
white marking threads meet. |
This shows the completed marking |
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| Chose an 8-spoke intersection along the equator. Using white #5 Pearl cotton, stitch six rows of an open square using the points where the white guidelines intersect the sides of the square at the 8-spoke intersection. Figure 6 shows the first row of the square completed. | Move to an adjacent 8-spoke intersection and
stitch another square with six rows of white #5 Pearl cotton. Where the
squares intersect, alternate between weaving over and under as shown in
Figure 7. Continue until all six 8-spoke intersections have been
stitched with an open square. |
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| Using #5 Pearl cotton in white, stitch 6
rows of an open triangle at each 6-spoke intersection. To determine the
points of the triangle, use the red marking lines where they meet the
sides of the squares as shown. |