Wednesday, February 23, 2011

472 Facets

I started this temari before I went on vacation with a black base and green marking, but I messed up. I either had to take out all the marking lines, or wrap and start over. You can see what I picked. I had the green thread with me in Arizona, and not the black, and I couldn't wait the 2 days to start over.

This is the temari I stitched on in the airport and on the plane that got so many comments. The pins are in to indicate what color to stitch where.

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This is the marking seen from close up. I used regular stitching thread, because I felt that any gold I had would be too overpowering with such a fine marking.

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As you can see, I am about 1/4 of the way done. I really like the colors, even though they would have looked better on a black base.

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I decided which color would go where by trial and error making sure that each purple pentagon had five different colors around it. When I got done, I was shocked to find out that there are 4 pins of each color, arranged as if on the faces of a tetrahedron. Each thumb and pointer finger is pointing to one of the green pins. That is so cool!

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I love temari!

2 comments:

Temari Addict Australia said...

Thanks for this post. In the first few pics I imagined the ball to be much much larger. When I saw the image with hands I realised how small it actually is. I exclaimed 'WOW!' so loudly my son came to see what I was looking at.
It is going to be really gorgeous when it's done.

Moonsilk Stitches said...

That is amazing. I like the green background--like grass.