This was originally planned for a blue, mustard and cream colored stocking, but I ended up doing the braid for that in yarn instead.

54" (not including tassel) by about 1/8" (3mm) 16 strands, disk-kongo, size 12 perle cotton ‘made in Romania’.

I “crisscrossed” the color: that is, reversed half of them end-to-end to give the yellow and orange contrasting spiralling stripes at the ends of the braid; the shifting colors met in the middle for the pure orange at the center of the spiral, shifting to two blue sections that are basically at the 1/3 and 2/3 mark (i.e. the braid is bilaterally symmetrical in pattern).

These are not normally colors I work with, but I was very pleased with the way this braid came out.

update, 18feb15—this braid is now in the collection of Dr Makiko Tada.

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