Like Blue Mum, this one is a temari I did a while ago but never posted about. It started as a color play experiment, and I wasn’t really sure about the combination of colors at all until the last row got added. Right up until that last row of darker purple went on, it looked far too much like an Easter egg for my tastes, and then suddenly it didn’t anymore.
Peacock, 3/4 view
This is another ball where I decided to have the stitches cross over the equator line rather than deal with adding an obi, but in this one, the crossover becomes the focal point of the design since the crossing stitches from each half also cross each other and form interwoven diamonds.
Peacock, side view
It did originally have guidelines, (obviously,) but somehow even though all the stitches ended up on the ball evenly around the poles, the poles themselves (where all the guidelines cross, for non-stitchers) had gotten a little wonky, so I pulled them off after all the stitches were on. I ended up liking that effect more than I would have liked the guidelines even if they had been straight. Given that I ended up deciding to call it “Peacock,” the eye effect seems fitting.
Peacock, pole view
Overall, another experimental ball that fortunately turned out well.
Beautiful!
[...] other markings with that stitch, (see Purple Passion (second ball in that post), Blue Mum, and even Peacock,) I didn’t have any on a 12, so I whipped up this one. Fire [...]