Temari Pattern 99CZ01 instructions

Triangular Kiku Flowers

From Joan: Susan C. spotted this temari on Ebay. She contacted me and we worked on it together. It is not an easy pattern to see. You will need to know how to read a C10. Once you know where to place the 4 leaves and 4 flowers and add the extra marking lines it is just a matter of stitching the flowers and the leaves.

Prep and mark a C10 on a 4-inch diameter ball with invisible or an inconspicuous color marking thread. Use 3 flower colors and one leaf color - plan on a bit less than one skein each of: Dark Pink, Light Pink, Purple, Green (or Variegated Green).

This temari is worked on the 6 part triangles. Use different color pins to mark stitching for each of the 4 flowers - this will help to not get them confused. Each pentagon will have 3 triangles of 1 flower, 1 triangle of a second flower, and one leaf. Each triangle touches 3 pentagons.

Diagram 1, pin mark the flowers and leaves.

Hold your Mari so that one of the pentagons is shaped like a house (corner point at "top of roof"). Place 1 pink pin in each of the 3 corners that make up the roof of the house. This is also the center of three 6-part triangles. At the base of your pentagon place a yellow pin (second flower section) in the left corner, and place a black pin on the right corner (leaf section).

Use your middle roof pin as the North Pole and roll the ball toward you until you come to the center of an unmarked 6-part triangle. Place a pink pin in its center. This gives the 4 triangles that make up one flower. Turn the ball so that the pin you just placed is on the bottom left corner of a pentagon. Place a black pin (leaf section) to the bottom right corner. Place a blue pin in each of the 3 remaining corners.

Repeat, using the center of your three pins to find the 4^th triangle for your flower until you have all four flowers and leafs pin marked.

Stitch the leaves (see leaf view in sample photos) - Stitching the leaves before the flowers helps to keep things oriented when marking the extra guidelines for the flowers. Use a solid or variegated thread with a long filling straight stitch to fill in the leaf triangle, crossing the stitches in the middle.

Adding the extra marking lines: Each flower is made up of four 6-part triangles. The center triangle is the center of the flower.
Each flower will have 18 guide lines.

Add extra guidelines as shown in diagram 2.

Remember to extend the guidelines to the outside edges of of the flower triangles.

Stitch the flower using Uwagake Chidori for a kiku design, or be creative.

It takes 5 or 6 rows to complete a flower, depending on the size of the mari.