Temari Pattern 99GK06 instructions

1. Wrap mari with White or your choice of color. With paper tape measure and mark CENTERS for Complex 8 divisions. At each center measure 12 mark lines around those six centers. Stitch mark lines with Perle Cotton that matches thread wrap.

2. Leaves - At each 6-line intersection place one color of pin. At each 2-line intersection place another color of pin. Now note the mark line which crosses between those two pins. Think of that as a Wing Point. You will be stitching over the mark lines which form a square around the 12-line centers you marked in #1. I will refer to them as Stitch Lines. You will be taking stitches at two different places on each Stitch Lines, either near the central 6-line intersection or up at the Wing Point.

* To begin bring your Dk Gr threaded needle up from the thread wrap at a Wing Point.

* Pass it over the adjacent mark line and down to the 2nd Stitch Line.

* Take a herringbone stitch close to the 6-line intersection. (I kept a pin securely in that intersection until I had two full rounds worked so it wouldn’t slip.)

* Rotate the mari and bring your thread over the next adjacent mark line and take your next herringbone stitch up at the Wing Point on that 2nd Stitch Line. You should now have an arc which has a stitch on each of the three Stitch Lines. Both segments of that arc pass over a mark line.

* Rotate the mari again, bring you thread over the next adjacent mark line, and take your next herringbone stitch down near the center of the 6-line intersection on the 1st Stitch Line. Be sure to enter your needle into the thread wrap between the mark line and the arc you stitched first.

Keep alternating your stitches high and low on the Stitch Lines until you get back to your start point. That’s one round!

3. On the 4” mari I stitched the following pattern of rounds:

    3 Dk Green
    1 Lt Green
    2 Dk Green
    3 Lt Green
    1 Dk Green (I did this as an outline because my Lt Gr was lost in my thread wrap. It was not in the original design.)

5. Work 3-Wing Leaves on each 6-line intersection. The points of the “leaf” should touch.

6. Flower Center is a spider web stitch of Light and Dark Brown.   In #2 you identified the Wing Point intersections. The Flower Center is worked on those mark lines.

Spider Web pattern rounds:
3 Light Brown, fill center with Dark Brown
2 Dark Brown
2 Light Brown
2 Dark Brown
2 Light Brown
3 Dark Brown

7. Flower “petals” are worked in overlapping Yellow Squares on the 2-line and 6-line mark lines you avoided in #6.

    To determine your starting point lay a long needle or other straight edge along one straight side of the Flower Center. Place a pin below the straight edge on the mark line which is the widest on each side. (total of 2 pins)
    Rotate the mari 1/4 turn. Repeat the measurement with the straight edge. One pin should already be in place. Place the other outside pin.
    Rotate the mari 1/4 turn. Repeat the measurement and place the 4th pin.

    Half of the mark lines should be worked with the Flower Center pattern. Four of the mark lines should have the pins you just placed.

    Measure and pin with a different color the remaining mark lines in another square pattern.

* Stitch the first pinned square with Light Yellow Perle Cotton for one round.

* Stitch the second pinned square with Light Yellow Perle Cotton for one round.

** Continue to stitch squares, one round at a time the two pinned squares, for about 15 rounds on each. Your “petals” should extend out and almost touch the Leaves you stitched. Finish your Flower with one round of Dark Yellow for an outline.

Note: On my sample I chose to take the Dark Yellow UNDER the Light Yellow so that the outline did not cross over any previous stitching.