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Helen B is a Talk Temari member of long standing and was
delighted to fine other group members asking about the patterns for
some of the photos Helen has in our group files. This is one - and it
is indeed stunning. I'm going to add a few comments in that you do need
a working knowledge of basic temari moves to use Helen's narration of
working the pattern - and you start with a C10 divide. |
Ohhh, what a nice thing to read on the email, someone wanting my
pattern! I am guessing that it's the periwinkle blue ball with
3-petaled kiku inside each triangle, then the triangles outlined with a
couple of the colors, inside the marker threads. That ball always
gets attention.
But if it is that ball, It's an easy pattern, as you can see -- you
just repeat and repeat in all the triangles, but the tricky part is to
lay out those petals so that they have a roundness to them, otherwise
there's a flat look to the kiku which isn't as attractive. I am
sitting with the ball in front of me as I write this, so as to include
the nuances. I see that I entered the needle at the tops of the
marker threads, in other words up very close to the place where the
three marker threads intersect at the centers of the triangles.
And as I worked each row down along the kiku petals, I entered my
needle carefully farther and farther out to the sides so that there
would be a nice wide upside down V, rather than a more pointed
one. I worked the tips of the kiku petals out far enough so that
when I outlined the triangles after finishing with the kiku, the first
outline thread, which is white, lies right beside the last thread of
the kiku, which is navy.
There's no space between the outlines and the tips of the kiku.
The mari is light blue; starting at the beginning points of the kiku
the DMC colors
are: 2 rows of green, 3 of light purple, 2 baby blue, 1 white, and one
navy.
The triangle outlines are 1 white and one navy. And -- see the
tiny
white threads at the tips of the kiku, right by the triangle
intersections?
I "cheated" and ran a little loop thread around the marker threads on
each
kiku petal. I felt a touch of white was needed there. I
remember
that moment -- I worked and worked on the ball, always liking it but
never
quite enough -- and then I snuck in those additional little white dots
--
and the whole thing snapped together. I looked at it and thought,
"This
is my best ball." It's "old" by now -- I realize that I made it
back
before I started putting noisemakers in my balls. So it's a
silent
one. Oh -- and the marker thread is a sort of mauve-pink sparkle
that
somehow ties in with the purple very well. If you try it, let me
know
how it works, meanwhile aloha to all, Helen B.