Well -as only Nicole can, she got herself into a darling little Bin Temari situation that she very unabashedly shares with us.... not so much to warn you off of trying it but to prove that it can indeed work - her Bin was rescued as you will see in the end and I have indeed seen it in person to vouch....  whether you try a Bin yourself or not, be entertained on this one....  it will help if you read through Sue's description of the steps to make one so that you can relate to what Nicole is referring to in various sections....

        Well, I thought ya'll deserved the full story of my bin temari saga, which you may find educational or simply sad (webmaster's note - whatever it may be, sad is not the word. First of all Nicole had the gumption to try one which is more than I have yet - and only she can share the story like she does). I got my little one and a half inch or so temari stitched up nicely, with my core string hanging out of the side with the plastic around it and went and bought the perfect little vase to put it in.   Then I got a call that my dad was having surgery (he's fine now), so I packed everything up and hopped in the car for two hours to get to the hospital so I could sit with my mom and sister in the waiting room.   Now at this point I must mention that instead of being criers, my family laughs... a lot.   So we got settled in and I whip out my temari with it's outie belly button and explain what I am trying to do.   Then I dramatically untwist the plastic and give a little tug on the core string to demonstrate my wonderous ablility to collapse the temari.   Nothing happened. So I pull harder and get nothing.   Then I start digging around with a crochet hook to try and help things along.   Well, before it is over my sister and I are putting on a floor show with each of us taking turns pulling on the temari with all our might while the other held the string, and digging around with the crochet hook.   My mom and brother-in-law, kept moving back to avoid being elbowed when we managed to get another inch of string out.   (And my mom was kind enough to point out that maybe I should have followed the instructions better.   Thanks, Mom!)   At one point we had about 20 loops of this neon pink (of course) string hanging out like so much core throw-up.   The crochet hook bent.   The other people stared and actually cheered for us when we'd get a good run of a yard or so out.   We cut, we tugged, we hooked. 

        By the time my dad was out of surgery and back in his room and we had moved camp, we had finally gotten it to the place where I could just pull clumps of it out and finally present my lovely temari shell, with a hole the size of a quarter. Then I proceeded to squish it into the bottle...just squeeze it right in there...hmmm, that's funny... the hole seems to be too small.   How very amusing.   This was a semi-life-threatening development since my dad was told
to try and not laugh to avoid the possibility of bleeding to death.   Wrong thing to tell our family.... 

        In a fit of desperation I then yanked out the plastic bag in the center, followed by the yarn so all I had left was a thread ball with stitching.   Well, it finally fit into the vase and I ignored how pitiful it looked and started stuffing that sucker up.   I got home the next evening and other than occasionally poking at it with a bamboo skewer have pretty much ignored it.   The hole is so big I can't cover it and since I pulled out all the yarn I can't just push the thread becase I just make other holes.   What makes it all worse is I can't wait to do it again...

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        Now, one of the things that makes the TalkTemari list so great is that as Nicole posted this to honestly share with us, after we all caught our collective breaths from laughing so hard, Anne W popped back in (Anne is about our resident expert on doing Bin) to talk Nicole through a rescue/rescussitation attempt, which worked as I said, since Nicole brought her "poor little Bin" to the NY StitchIn)

Nicole,

I've had the same thing happen, but, at the time I didn't find it so funny!  Just a suggestion, try to push the plastic liner back in, then restuff it.  That way when you push stuffing in, the skewer won't poke through your threads.  I remember one that I made I used batting around the yarn and plastic core before I added my yarn and thread wraps.  Well, it wouldn't fit through the opening to the vase either, so I pulled out the plastic liner, got out a trusty crochet hook and pulled out the batting layer.  Then I shoved it through the opening, put the plastic liner back in and stuffed and finished it.  I figured I didn't have anything to lose if it all fell apart when I removed the batting, so I just went for it. As far as the hole being too large, I have another suggestion.  Use some thread to match your thread wrap and make "plugs" of it to fill in the hole.  After you get enough plugs pushed in, carefully move a few of the threads from your thread wrap over the top of the plugs to hold them in.  Give it a try.  Like me, it sounds like you have nothing to lose, and any mistakes you make along the way just add to the learning experience.  I'm just glad you haven't given up on the whole thing! --Anne.