Temari Pattern 99SS01 instructions

Starting at the intersection of the guidelines for the face region, work 3 - 5 rounds in red or dark pink to form Santa’s nose, then switch to a flesh tone to complete the face square.

Switch to red. Fill both squares that will form Santa’s suit from the center to the outer margin, then move to the triangle that forms the hat and fill that with red in the same manner.

Take a fat, sharp needle and thread it with approximately 10 inches of chenille yarn. With the chenille yarn, make a small, very loose stitch at the tip of the hat’s triangle to form the pom-pom, outline the face, make a horizontal line across the face, then make a vertical line between the two red squares. The fat, sharp needle seems to make it a little easier to pass the chenille through the wrap threads, but due to the gauge of the yarn it may still be very difficult to pull through.

The belt is worked in black thread, as several long stitches over the body squares and the chenille thread between these squares.

Using a doubled blue thread, make a French knot for each eye. The mouth is made of a French knot in single thread plus two short stitches for the corners of the mouth.

Three Santas can fit around the ball. An optional kiku-style star can be worked at the six-line intersection at the (revised) north pole region. The star on the pictured example had some beads added for extra sparkle.