May 21/2017 Temari on my own Lou has been unwell, and I have been doing quiet crafts. Led me to find this black mari and see what I could do on my own. Well, not quite true. The first photo is one I was trying to copy. The instructions were written but I could not really understand them. Sad as it is, I am learning that time is required for doing Temari. Time and knowledge. I thought this Temari to look rather spiritual, or somewhat like a Celtic Piece. I love the simplistic look. I am unsure where I found these instructions, but it is called only Temari Pattern 76. This is noted as an easy beginner.......well, maybe a different beginner, but not me. Anyway, here is my attempt. I think it is part instructions from the printed page, and then striking out on my own using a bit of the Kiku Herringbone beginner lesson and part of my own idea. This was part 1 North Pole: If you look closely, you will see that the variegated mauve and black Temari stitch
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May 13/17. Finished Part 2 #7/17. Beginner Kiku Temari Special thanks to Barb Suess for guiding out Temari group through all steps to make this simply beautiful Temari. I have and am learning lots with this new craft hobby I really enjoy. Here's to following Maris and fun moving forward. One more thing I still want to do before finalizing. That is finding my hot melt wand and 2 beautiful crystals. One will be added to both North and South Poles. Just moved and still in process of changing things around. Now I ask myself, "where did you put these gems this time!?" Here is the colour sequence. All threads used were crochet cotton. 2 rows each for Petals 1 and 2 white, cream, med yellow, gold metallic wound, bronze metallic "opera" type crochet cotton, followed by dark chocolate brown, and completed with an amazing type of cotton. Black fibers wound with rainbow metallic thread scattered with the tiniest sequins I have ever seen. Petal section 3 has be
May 9, 2017. A NEW UNDERSTANDING I am so excited, if that is the proper way to write this note......If you remember, Barb and others, I was having problems wrapping with a crochet cotton med thickness thread. I had marked the guidelines. But then I decided to remove the guide lines and rewrap using serger thread...I am so glad I did. Now my Temari looks and feels smooth, and it s so much easier to stitch the pattern threads to make them lie neater. However, this is not the main reason why I am smiling. I finished the original temari taught in 2015 first, So I am caught up on that SP side. Yeah! And moving on to this 2nd fresh Beginner Kiku Herringbone for this year's project. I discovered something quite interesting. I don't read and follow directions very well. While working last night on the NP of this newest BKH temari, I discovered that the petals had all been stitched one layer at a time,,,,,not all layers of one petal first, and then the 2nd layers of the
May 8/2017 A LEARNING CURVE MASTERED I have been practicing making the base temari balls over the past week or so. Lots of mileage was put on the car during recent trips to Niagara Falls and back. So instead of watching the scenery flash past, I decided to keep my hands busy wrapping various sizes of Maris. When I really got down to brass tacks and wrapped the threads over and over, round and round the ball, several times it flew from my hands and went down on the car floor. Of course this necessitated a ground search of the carpet moving all my various bins and bags around my knees....did I mention the grunts and groans that accompanied this search? On our last trip to Niagara Falls we had to enter into the hospital for a visitation. Influenza was happening in the emergency ward, so it time for was wearing masks, gowns and gloves. Finally we were able to remove all garments and while doing so, I tucked my gloves into my pocket. Smart move on my part as I found out later.