Temari Pattern 99CP04 instructions

Temari Pattern 99CP04 / TemariKai Pattern Index
Advanced Beginner to Intermediate - Pattern contributed by Colleen Parker / Download PDF file of this pattern

This Temari can be found in the Japanese language book Cosmo #5 ISBN4-8377-0283-X
on page 21. I did not understand how to do this design when I first looked at the picture, so I felt compelled to figure it out. I think it is great fun to make stars, pentagons, and triangles using the sides of rectangles.

Materials:
25 cm base wrapped with green thread
Gold metallic thread
DMC pearl cotton colors: 335, 498, 818

Directions:

1. Divide the base into a standard C10 division. Mark the division lines with gold metallic thread and tack 10 thread intersections.

2. Additional marking thread is required to complete this design. Select a pentagon and identify the 4 thread intersections that occur in each side of the pentagon. Select any 4 thread intersection to begin. Wrap an additional gold metallic thread around the ball wrapping from 4 thread intersection to 4 thread intersection until you return to the starting point. Wrap gold thread in the other direction following the 4 thread intersections around the ball. Repeat this procedure until all the 4 thread intersections around the pentagon have 2 additional of gold threads running through them.

3. The design on this Temari is created with woven rectangles. The centers of the rectangles are the 8 thread intersections formed by the additional marking thread and the 4 thread intersections. The additional marking threads are the diagonals of the rectangles. All the stitching on this Temari is done along the diagonals.

These instructions include the weaving pattern I used to create this Temari. This is not the only weaving pattern that will work. If you are going to use my pattern you MUST ALWAYS turn the ball counter clockwise and start stitching the top right corner of the rectangle. If you do not adhere to these rules, the weaving on your Temari may not be correct.

For all rectangles:
Begin stitching .4 mm from the corners and work toward the corners. Stitch 2 rows of 498, 1 row of 335, and 2 rows of 818 around all rectangles.

4. Select a pentagon as a starting point. Stitch 5 rectangles around this pentagon. Two sides of the second rectangle go under two sides of the first rectangle. The sides of the third rectangle go under the sides of the second rectangle. The sides of the forth rectangle go under the sides of the third rectangle. Two sides of the fifth rectangle go over the first rectangle and two sides go under the forth rectangle.

5. Select a pentagon adjacent to the original pentagon and stitch 4 rectangles around this pentagon. The sides of the first rectangle will go under, over, under, over the sides of 2 rectangles surrounding the original pentagon. Two sides of the second rectangle go under two sides of the first rectangle. The sides of the third rectangle go under the sides of the second rectangle. The sides of the forth rectangle go over, under, over, under, under, under the sides of the rectangles around it.

As you start stitching rectangles around the adjacent pentagons the pattern shown at the right will start to form. If you are weaving correctly the sides of a rectangle will go under the sides of one rectangle and over the sides of the other rectangle.

6.    Turn the Temari counterclockwise around the original pentagon and stitch rectangles around the next 3 adjacent pentagons. Follow this pattern. Stitch 3 rectangles around each pentagon. The sides of the first rectangle will go under, over, under, over the sides of the rectangles around it. Two sides of the second rectangle go under two sides of the first rectangle. The sides of the third rectangle go over, under, over, under, under, under the sides of the rectangles around it.

7.    Stitch 2 rectangles around the fifth pentagon adjacent to the original pentagon. The sides of the first rectangle will go under, over, under, over the sides of the rectangles around it. The sides of the second rectangle go over, under, over, under, under, under the sides of the rectangles around it.

8.    Select a pentagon adjacent to the pentagons just completed. Stitch 3 rectangles around this pentagon. The sides of the first rectangle will go under, over, under, over the sides of the rectangles around it. Two sides of the second rectangle go under two sides of the first rectangle. The sides of the third rectangle go over, under, over, under, under, under the sides of the rectangles around it.

9.    Turn the Temari counterclockwise stitch rectangles around the next 3 adjacent pentagons. Follow this pattern. Stitch 2 rectangles around each pentagon. The sides of the first rectangle will go under, over, under, over the sides of the rectangles around it. The sides of the second rectangle go over, under, over, under, under, under the sides of the rectangles around it.

10.    One more turn should bring you to the final rectangle. The pattern for this rectangle is over, under, over, under, over, under, over, under the sides of the rectangles around it.