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.
During the drive home, when the mari slipped out of my hand, I put on the rubber gloves.....amazing help. The rubber seemed to anchor the ball to the tips of my fingers and it didn't pop out even once. Seeing how this worked for one hand, I decided to put the glove on the other hand as well. Not to hold the ball, but I noticed a huge improvement in the tightness of the thread as I wrapped. Tighter thread stops the outer layer threads from slipping off the temari as I add the decorative threads, keeping a really nice, tidy look in my work.
It is so true that old statement that we live and learn. I was gifted with a much nicer drive home as MsTemari never left my hand even once. Wonder what will I learn next in my new quest for growing with Temari. At the end of these several trips I counted 5 newly wrapped temari to add to my growing collection of prepared Temari.
The pen is a marker to show different sizes I have wrapped.
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.
During the drive home, when the mari slipped out of my hand, I put on the rubber gloves.....amazing help. The rubber seemed to anchor the ball to the tips of my fingers and it didn't pop out even once. Seeing how this worked for one hand, I decided to put the glove on the other hand as well. Not to hold the ball, but I noticed a huge improvement in the tightness of the thread as I wrapped. Tighter thread stops the outer layer threads from slipping off the temari as I add the decorative threads, keeping a really nice, tidy look in my work.
It is so true that old statement that we live and learn. I was gifted with a much nicer drive home as MsTemari never left my hand even once. Wonder what will I learn next in my new quest for growing with Temari. At the end of these several trips I counted 5 newly wrapped temari to add to my growing collection of prepared Temari.
The pen is a marker to show different sizes I have wrapped.
Looking good, Dee.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning Dee, they are gorgeous.
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