Jun 26, 2023
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Every time I post this, it gets re-blogged constantly!
Prize-winning blue & white temari with its ribbon and judge’s notes. Unlike the quilt category - you have SIX working points for judging of your entry.
Comments: “What a beautiful temari ball! & Viscorniu [biscornu] to hold it. You’ve done a lovely job.”
Temari sampling. I believe this is just about one of every ball/design that was in my beginner temari book by Barbara Suess Japanese Temari - A Colorful Spin on an Ancient Craft.
Please check my archives to see many of these temari individually, along with my quilting and costumes!
Temari Thread Clippings
Once crammed and tightly packed into the jar at left, this pile of threads (just under 1.5″ thick) represents the thread clippings from my THREE YEARS of Temari crafting! It is at least 95% of the balls I made. Considering I have just completed my SEVENTY-SECOND completely different design - not including variations with color changes or multiples of a select portion of them, I conservatively estimate that in the three years of sewing I have made a minimum of 160 temari!
Since it is bird-nesting season, I am going to scatter the colorful threads around to give the birds some colorful nesting material.
And then start filling the jar all over again.
Early in my learning process.
New & Improved ‘Sky Rockets in Flight’! Because I was stitching into blank air spaces on the original, I decided to add another set of guidelines for the trefoils to be stitched onto. I am much happier that the centers of the trefoils became hexagons instead of triangles, as they did in the original stitching (last picture).
Daffodil Temari pattern with variations: (L-R) Judaeo-Christian, Daffodils, Hanukkah Ball temari.
Bizarre Bazaar at the New England Carousel Museum, 11/10/18
Dragged my temari to a not-quite Christmas Bazaar and hoped to sell some to the curious! Did well, IMHO - sold 11 temari and one children’s book - about 25% of what I brought with me (50 temari) - not a bad haul! Will definitely consider doing this again next year! I sold three to one customer! I also met someone else that makes temari!