Temari Pattern 99GK23
Intermediate Pattern contributed by Glenna Kipp / Download PDF file of this pattern

Stripes and Stars

Materials:  3” Styrofoam ball, red sewing thread,
#5 pearl cotton in Royal, Ruby, and White,
Silver metallic cord, Royal metallic cord, Ruby metallic cord

1.    Wrap mari in red thread. 

Measure and divide mari into Simple 6 vertical divisions:  With Ruby pearl cotton mark the mari with vertical mark lines,  With a separate Ruby thread mark an equator, which will be removed. 

Divide the distance from pole to pole into 1/3’s.  Place pins at 1/3 and 2/3 points on all mark lines.

2.    On each mark line beginning at the pins stitch a Royal blue Spindle for 15 rounds.  Finish edge of Spindle with a round of metallic cord, if desired.  I used Silver.

3.    Weave White Stars into 3 alternate spindles and Red/White Stripes into the 3 remaining spindles.  Begin at the obi and work outward toward the poles following the row patterns listed. 

When moving between the spindles, you can work in circles around the mari, stitching into the thread wrap and coming up where needed OR work the design in each spindle separately. 
If you choose to work in a circle around the mari, exit the thread wrap a couple of threads deep into the spindle design.  Weave under the spindle threads by leading with the eye end of the needle.   Exit the weave by stitching into the thread wrap and coming up at the next spindle.  When you change colors, stitch your second color so it appears to be a continuation of the first thread by passing your needle through the second thread.

4.    Weave the Stripes and Stars patterns.  When all weaving is done, remove pins and mark threads.  Below are translations of the abbreviations on the chart.
“U” = Under the spindle threads            “o” = Over the spindle threads
Wt = White                        Rd = Red

Example “U6, WT o5, Rd o5” means under 6 spindle threads, weave White over 5 spindle threads, weave Red over 5 spindle threads

5.    When weaving is complete, work some fireworks at the NP and SP.  I used straight stitches in Red, White and Blue.  Your Stripes and Stars mari is complete.  You could also embellish it with a tassel.

Note:  There is room vertically to work another Star above and below the obi Star if you like.


Note: 

If you are a more visual person, chart these directions on a piece of graph paper with colored pencils.  This will also help you correct your pattern if you have miscounted a stitch.  You’ll know how it is supposed to look.

Stripes Pattern (should form a diamond with diagonal stripes)

Obi to NP                                                                Obi to SP

U6, Rd o2, Wt o5, Rd o6, Wt o5, U6                                    U6, WT o5, Rd o5, Wt o6, Rd o2, U6          

 
U7, Rd o4, Wt o5, Rd o6, Wt o1, U7                                    U7, Wt o1, Rd o5, Wt o6, Rd o4, U7

 
U8, Rd o5, Wt o6, Rd o3, U8                                                U8, Rd o3, Wt o5, Rd 06, U8

 
U9, Wt o2, Rd o5, Wt o5, U9                                                U9, Wt o4, Rd o6, Wt o2, U9

 
U10, Wt 03, Rd o6, Wt o1, U10                                            U10, Wt o1, Rd o5, Wt o4, U10

 
U11, Wt o5, Rd o3, U11                                                       U11, Rd o2, Wt o6, U11

 
U12, Rd o1, Wt o5, U12                                                       U12, Wt o4, Rd o2, U12

 
U13, Rd o3, Wt o1, U13                                                      U13, Rd o4, U 13

 
U 14, Rd o2, U14                                                               U14, Rd o2, U 14

 

Star Pattern (Forms a single Star at obi.)

Obi to NP                                                         Obi to SP

U14, Wt o1, U15  (2 rows)                                         U11, Wt o7, U12 (3 rows)

 
U13, Wt o3, U14                                                        U10, Wt o9, U11

 
U8, Wt o2, U3, Wt o3, U3, Wt o2, U9                        U9, Wt o4, U3. o4, U10

 
U9, Wt o11, U10                                                        U9, Wt o1, U9, Wt o1, U10

 
U10, Wt o9, U11

Tassel and Beaded Star, if desired:
Tassel Materials:  3 skeins Royal rayon floss, scrap of Ruby rayon floss, silver beads, beading needle

1.    Insert about 1/2” of Royal floss between the pages of a six inch high book to anchor it.  Wind the floss around the width of the book.  Don’t pull it too tight.  Just be sure it doesn’t slip.  Continue with the remaining 2 skeins.

2.    Cut 2 10” lengths of Royal floss.  If you plan to wrap the tassel head with matching thread, cut a 24” length of Royal floss and set it aside.  Set one 10” length aside.  Insert the other 10” length under the wraps along the spine of the book.  With that thread gather together all of the wraps and secure with a knot.  Fold the book in half lengthwise to loosen the threads and remove them from the book.

3.    Hold the threads firmly by the gather thread while you smooth everything down.  When you have all of the threads near the gather thread under control, shake the whole tassel to encourage the threads to spread out lengthwise.  Still holding the gather knot and tassel threads firmly, find the bottom half of each loop (the end opposite the gather thread knot) and snip the loop.

4.    If you have a tea pot or coffee pot, place some water in it and heat it until it steams.  Hold the threads in the steam and they will straighten out as if they had been ironed.  Be careful not to burn your fingers!

5.    When all of your threads are hanging very straight, take the reserved 10” length of thread and wrap 2-5 rounds about 1/2-1” below the gather knot and tie off with a double knot.  This forms the head of your tassel. 

6.    Now extend the two ends of the gather cord at a 90 degree angle to either side of your tassel head.  Invert the tassel head so it doubles back over the first gather.  Spread the threads evenly over the tassel head.  Pull the gather cords up through the tassel and tie again in a double knot at the top of the tassel head.

7.    When all of the tassel threads are spread evenly over the tassel head, wrap your gathered tassel with matching or contrasting thread.  Leave one end of your wrap hanging down slightly longer than the tassel skirt.  At the level where you intend to wrap make a 1/2” loop and hold it in place with your fingers.  With the remaining length of thread wrap several times around the gathered tassel securing all of the threads together and forming the now double sized tassel head. As you wrap be sure part of the 1/2” loop remains extended above the wraps which cover it.  When the wraps look right to you, take the end of the thread and insert it in the 1/2” loop.  You can pull the loop almost all the way through the wrap layers and bury the tail of the thread end.  You can pull the loop into the wraps and leave a long thread hanging out the top of the wrap.
When the wrap threads are a contrasting color to the tassel, leaving these long threads is very attractive.  Make some decorative knots in these threads and trim the ends.  You can add in an extra short length of thread to make the knots fatter and add some extra fluff to the knot end  (a tassel on a tassel).  If you are working in a slippery thread like the rayon floss, you may need to secure the knot with a drop of clear glue.

8.    Hold any decorative cords up out of the way.  Take a piece of paper and wrap it firmly around the tassel skirt.  Carefully slide the paper down toward the bottom of your tassel until you come to the shortest thread in the bundle (or the shortest thread visible on the outside).  Secure the paper enclosed tassel in your hand.  With very sharp scissors trim the ends of the threads to the length marked by the edge of the paper.  Only snip a few threads at a time.  Otherwise you will not get an even cut.

9.    Attach completed tassel to the mari.



Bead Star Materials: 60 clear glass beads, beading thread, beading needle, 4” square cardboard, straight pins

    Each of the 5 straight lines of the Star contains 11 clear beads.  There is a common bead at the tip of each Star point.  There is probably a better way to form the Star, but not being a “beader” I just stumbled along in this way.

1.  Thread your needle with about 24” of thread.  Knot the ends together.  Secure the first bead by threading it onto a doubled thread, then passing the needle through the two threads near the knot.  This encloses the bead in a loop.   

2.  Thread a total of 60 clear glass beads onto the doubled beading thread.  Cut the thread near the eye of the needle, remove the needle, and secure the cut ends somehow so the beads don’t slide off.

3.  Lay the cardboard on a flat surface.  Place the beaded thread on the cardboard and with a pin slide the beads into groups of 11 with a single bead in between each group.  The first bead you secured to the thread will be the “single” between the first and last groups. I am sure you have drawn a 5 point star.  Now draw a star by moving the bead groups around.  The single bead between each group will become the points.  Each arm of the star is 4 beads long(not counting the single “point” bead).  The pentagon formed by the five arms of the star crossing is 3 beads on each side.

4.  Begin with the first single bead and secure it toward the top center of the cardboard with a pin through it’s center.  It is followed by 4 beads to form an arm.   With a pin make a space on the thread, count 3 more beads (the first pentagon segment), make another space, followed by 5 more beads.  The 5th bead is the next point in your star.  Secure it to the cardboard with a pin so the line it forms goes toward the bottom and to the right. 

5.  Change direction up and to the left.  Repeat the process forming another straight line in 3 sections with 2 spaces.  Pin the next point.

6.  Change direction again and form another line horizontally to the right.  The space After the group of 3 on this line will intersect the space Before the group of 3 on first line you created in #4.   Are you still with me?
Place a pin in the point bead.  You should now see two of the 3 bead pentagon segments.

7.  Change direction again down and to the left.  Both spaces on either side of the pentagon segments intersect other bead lines.  Pin the 4th point bead.

8.  Change direction for the last time and take this line of beads back to the start point.  This line of beads also intersects at 2 pentagon segments.  You should now see a pentagon surrounded by 5 bead loops.
 
9.  Thread your needle with about 24” of thread and knot the ends.  Stitch around through the beads which form the pentagon keeping the knot out of the beads until your needle gets back to where it started.  Take the needle through the two pieces of thread,  securing the pentagon. 

10.  Now take your needle through the 4 bead arm of the star.  Do not go through the point bead.  Take your needle down through 1 bead of the adjacent star arm, across and back through the last bead of the previous star arm which you just passed through, then back across and down through the 4 bead arm of the star.  The “loop” you just stitched pulls the ends of the star arms together with the single point bead above it.  You should now see a pointed star arm instead of a loop of beads.  

11.  Pass the needle through the pentagon segment to the next star arm.  Repeat the point making stitches.  Continue until all of the star points are complete.  Tie off your thread and bury the tail by stitching back through the beads to hide the thread.

     I attached the beaded Star to the tassel by stitching a pentagon segment to the tassel head.


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