Some Excellent Questions
Some excellent questions have come up about stitching the 3D
cube.
What do the symbols in the corners of your templates
actually mean and want you to do when stitching the parabola?
How can you adjust the number of holes in the templates that
I've given you?
Those symbols tell you where the vertex of your parabola is
going to be. The curved part of the parabola is going to be in that
corner (the one with the symbol) facing out.
Beside the blue circle I put "behind" which means
you will stitch that first to give the impression of it being
"behind" the other colour in dimension as well as actually being
behind in stitching. The red triangle had "in front" beside
it. You will stitch those after you have finished all the other parabolas
of the first colour. This will give the impression of foreground, and the
stitching will be on top of the first colour. The following video gives a
demo of the placement of those stitched parabolas.
Fixing Templates
When you are given a template that does not have matched
holes — in this case the cube was not accurate — one way to correct it is to
redraw the lines with marker and then remark the piercing holes using a ruler
or other guide. (or even by eye as long as you have the same number of holes on
each side). Once you have a template that works, you can save it and
reuse it.
Another excellent question was asked. How do you use
the blocklayer.com program to create multi-segment designs?
I mentioned that it was great for creating the circles with
specific holes but I didn't go into details about line segments. A lot of
the patterns that I showed you from that point on, I'd seen on the internet as
stitched patterns and used the circles and drawn lines or used the stitched
pictures and counted holes and made patterns. I didn't spend a lot of
time explaining how I made those patterns from pictures or from those basic
circles.
Here is a more complete explanation.
Once you have your outer circle, with the number of holes
that you'd like to work with, you need to create the inner structure — the line
segments — by dividing the circle into sections. That is why I recommend
using a circle with 72, or 36 holes around the exterior. It is easily
divided by 4, 6 or 8 segments. Use more holes if you are working with a
large piece but that number works for me at the small size I'm working with.
Here is a small demo of how I work with the circle from
blocklayer to create my template and I've attached a basic template (with the
words blocked out) for you to use. I've sent them as Word diagrams so
that you can resize the pictures.
