Temari Pattern 84 instructions

Temari Pattern 84
Intermediate

This is an easy ball to work when considered against the impressive outcome. Some people that have seen it on my shelf since I have worked it comment on how much it resembles stained glass working. It can be worked on most any size ball. It is worked off of a C10 division, and the colors are endless. For this ball I used two shades each of blue, green and purple for a total of six colors. Each color was used on two pentagons, each directly opposite the other on the ball. Other than that there was no pattern to laying them out.

Prepare a standard C10 ball. The thread wrap will not show in the pattern when completed, although you may wish to wrap the mari in a color that cooridates or blends with your pattern threads in case any of the backgroun peeks through the stitching. If this happens it will not be as noticable if the wrapping thread is relatively inconspicuous to the pattern threads. Likewise the marking threads will not show so you don't want to splurge on fancy marking threads.

In each pentagon work a star as shown by working points 1-3-5-2-4-1. Work one round in each pentagon (the colors of that round in each pentagon can change). One round in each pentagon completes a cycle.

Repeat the cycle until the ball is covered. The star points will meet at the pentagon centers and the long sides will work over them to meet along the long sides.

Do not loose faith as you work it - it will not look anything like the desried outcome until you are close to the last few cycles that cover the ball. Honest. Trust me.

After the stitching is complete you attain the stained glass effect by using black thread to ouline the sections. First work the red line (follows the points of the stars), then the blue and then the green. The green accents the star points down the center of them to the center point, and the red divides the small diamonds longways. An easier way to do this is to work the stitching line in shown in Crystal Star in D. Vandervoort's third book, but this will work just fine too.
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