Temari Pattern 99HB01
Intermediate to Advanced - Pattern contributed by Helen Bigelow   / Download PDF file of this pattern
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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.

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