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!

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

A new temari stitcher

I am working on a temari, and I have taken pictures, but I am having issues with getting the pictures from the camera to the computer. So in the mean time, I thought I would share this picture of a new temari stitcher.

C had picked out a pattern from one of my books; I wrapped the temari and marked it in the pattern she had requested, but then I put it away. When she was over this weekend, she remembered that she had an order in, and asked how it was coming. She was a little surprised when I handed her the mari, and told her to go ahead and stitch, but was willing to give it a try. She concentrated on it for a good long time, and we got 2 or 3 motifs stitched. She was getting a little frustrated, because it was not turning out quite the way she wanted it to, but she kept at it.

She brought it to me a couple of times to get things back on track and kept stitching; I was very proud of her.

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I should finish it up before the weekend. (Don't tell her, but I took out most of the stitches she put in.) I was very proud of her willingness to try, and it is actually going to turn out very nice.