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Really the only thing that makes this Temari an intermediate is the need to be able to work an even C10 division. After that, the pattern is very easy to work. It uses two colors in addition to the mari wrap, here it is in two shades of rose, with a mari wrapped in eggshell white. One of the things that makes it a bit special is the marking threads are worked in a coordinating color - here, pink, although it need not be and gold or silver will be just as fine. |
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Prepare a regular C10 division. Locate the triangles formed around
each pole where three pentagons overlap. There will five triangles around
each pole pointing to the center of each triangle.
The stitched triangles are variation of the square Rose Garden, only worked on three points to form triangles. Choose a pentagon to orient on to begin with, and with the first color begin in the center of a triangle, working a solid triangle that points to the pole you are first orienting on. Work to within about 0.5cm of the border marking lines. For the second round of the rose garden, use the second color and work a triangle on the remaining three lines so that there is a side closest to the pole of the pentagon you are orienting on. But - begin the first stitching row not on the outside of the solid triangle, but one row in. Then, work from the outside on outward, so the new triangle overlaps the first one by one row. Repeat this pattern process in each triangle around the ball. To finish off, you can work one row of a third triangle over the last, oriented again like the first, just overlapping the rows of the second one. Then, using the metallic that you used to mark the ball, work straight stitches around each pole. |