Temari Pattern 99SH02

Advanced Beginner to Intermediate - Pattern contributed by Sue Hayashi
 
Temari Poinsettia

In answer to requests for Christmas themed temari, Sue Hayashi has offered up a few patterns - but please remember to not pack these gorgeous temari up with the holiday decorations!!!
This is reminiscent of a holiday poinsettia...use a White Base  with a C-10 division in Gold. Use colors to stitch in light green, darker green, red, and darker red.


Part 1:

Focus your attention on ONE pentagon. Using light green, bring your needle up 1/3 the distance from the center of the pentagon toward one of the points of the pentagon (on a long leg)

Create a 5-pointed star.







Repeat within that same pentagon until you have 4 rounds in light green and 2 rounds in dark green.

Repeat this for the center of each pentagon around the entire ball.


Part 2:

Focus your attention on ONE of the pentagons. Using red, bring your needle up at the first intersection of lines past one of the points of a pentagon (on a long leg). Carry the thread across to the next intersection just past the next point in your “focus” pentagon.

Continue in this manner around your “focus” pentagon to create a larger pentagon shape that surrounds your “focus” pentagon.  Repeat this ONE ROUND for each pentagon around the ball, but DO keep track of the order in which you do them so that you can repeat this order with subsequent rounds.     

Repeat a second round of red pentagons for the entire ball using the same stitching placement order as the first round.   Repeat each group of rounds until you have completed 3 rounds of red and 2 rounds of darker red.

 

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