Intermediate to Advanced Pattern contributed by
Julian Xandar
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New Year Celebration
Julian stitched this temari for her TalkTemari New Year's GITS partner andhas had requests to share it. It uses 3” ball wrapped with black or dark thread and is stitched with DMC floche thread: white and red 321; Sulky rayon machine thread: extremely dark green (unknown color number); Kreinik Japan gold #5 |
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1. Mark a standard C8 marking using inconspicuous waste thread. Marking will be completely covered by allover pattern. 2. Locate the 6 square areas around each 8-way intersection. Divide each diagonal (8-way to 6-way) in half and place pins. For each square, scooch your pins in towards the center of each square (the 8-way) just a little bit. This allows you to put a final “frame” around your square designs when you’re all done. |
| 3. Each layer of the pattern is created in two
steps: wrapping first, then stitched squares. Take your first color and
wrap bands on either side of the non-diagonal division lines. Wrap
however many rows you feel like; for finer detail, go with 1 row for
each layer! Next, stitch each square with the same number of rows you
wrapped, moving outwards with each row. Repeat with another color,
wrapping first, then stitching the same number of rows you wrapped for
however many rounds you think looks right. All rounds are simply laid
outside and over previous rounds. As you get further out from center,
it’s easier to hold things together if you take a tacking stitch
periodically as you wrap to keep those threads from slipping off the
ball. 4. When the wrap pattern meets the inner boundary of the squares, stitch a “keeper” row around the square wrap intersection to keep everything in place. Stitch as many rows of the darkest design color as are required to fill out each square to the 6-way intersections. To repeat this pattern exactly (note that each round consists of the specified number of rows for both wraps and stitched squares) perform this sequence of steps: R1. Gold for marking. R2. 5 rows white. R3. 1 row gold. R4. 5 rows red. R5. 1 row gold. R6. 2 rows green. R7. 1 row gold. R8. 5 rows red. R9. 1 row gold. R10. 5 rows white. R11. 1 row gold. R12. Tack wraps with gold, and fill in remaining space with dark green. This is a good pattern for experimentation with color and design variations. |