The 15-pointed star - a tutorial

It is long ago that I made one -
To tell the truth: It should be a 16-pointed star
by not cutting very exactly I got only 15 points.

 My friend Sibylle came and we crafted one together.

It is late for Christmas but not too late.

She brought the paper - a roll of transparent paper

70 x 100 cm

It is divided into two halves and cut with a very sharp knife (70x50)

And again into halves (35x50)

And once more (35x25)

Now you fold it again (17,5x25)

And again (8,75 approx.x 25)

Now you have 16 strips of 8,75 x 25 cm

You are working with those individual strips:

Fold them lengthwise into halves

and fold in the four edges

as exact as possible - two edges meet at the fold 

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 Next step -you fold the edges in again on both short sides

(see picture below)

You will get very pointed  tips

Now you are again folding the pointed tip of one end

(the left side) exactly to the middle fold -

I folded the lower one - now the upper one, too

The folds are overlapping here

Exactly at this point (shown with the pencil above) you will fold the right tip towards the middle

take care to hit really the middle with the point

It is this corner where you fold the right point in

Like that

Again fold the edges to the middle

see my pencil, it is the upper edge,

work also the lower one 

And again the two edges to the middle (see the pencil) -

it is a fiddly work

Make all 16 strips like that

Sibylle is folding and cutting the fold with a knife.

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Now take your glue and...

put glue on this side where the pencil is pointing to

glue the single point exactly on top of the previously

glue dabbed point -

 i.e. one half will be sticked to the half of the next.

(I hope my English is not too bad and you my readers will understand what I mean

but don't hesitate to point out errors in your very welcome comments)

Make it 16 times till you made the round of the star.

If you accidentally have the odd idea to count mine

- I forgot to put one remaining point and I made it with 15.

I could not believe it because I counted several times, ha.

But it closed perfectly.

Portuguese border stitch

 Soon I will make - or buy ready-made - the Advent wreath

 

With the new stitch - the Portuguese border stitch -

I thought of braiding a wreath

and as the season is approaching

an Advent wreath came out of my needle

 

 

I used a pretty thick viscose thread which is

rather difficult to handle but the shine to it is wonderful.

To depict the needles I used barred chain stitch

on the inner and outer circle.

And where the stitches were not very even I made drizzle stitches

and tatted rings.

Tatted rings are also on the sides made of 6 stranded mouliné thread

 

 

Mary Corbet has just lately put on a tutorial

how to make a six-pointed star and it came in very handy for me.

You find it here: six-pointed star

Thank you Mary!!!

 

My star is still looking very poor - it was a first try.

 

Moreover, SharonB - who gives us all those very interesting stitches

- the Portuguese border stitch is the 47th this year -

also pointed it out in her blog pintangle.com

find it here: http://pintangle.com/

There are so many interesting things to see, to read and to do.

 

Freebie Friday tutorial

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:13 AM PST

 

 

 

That's it for today