Notebook Entry - 050603

Finished Views

A view of the finished temari focused on one of the 12 white stars
  A view of the finished temari focused on one of the 20 red and white flowers
 

Source

Japanese book ISBN 4-8377-0280-5 Cosmo 2, color pic pg25 top left, diagram pg 52. Also a stitch along on talk temari

Classification

C10, support lines, all over, uwagake chidori kagari, shitagake chidori kagari, interwoven, layered

Size

27cm circumference

Materials

Wrap
white cone thread
Marking
Gold Rush 18 gold color
Design threads
DMC perle cotton #5 red (321) white blue (796)

Division/Marking

C10 with support lines

Diagrams

line drawing showing placement of stars, triangles and diamonds
  Detail drawing of the white triangles
Notice that the triangle stitch at the 10-way intersection goes under the division line rather than around it as usual.   Stitching path of top star layer
Purple star shows placement of the white stars in the top layer  

Directions

  1. Mark C10 and add support lines (dotted on diagram)
  2. Stitch one row on the red stars and diamonds. (red and blue on the diagram)
  3. Stitch one row on the white triangles. Green on diagram, note closeup for detail of stitch at the 10-way intersection. The stitches go under the support line rather than around it.
  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 using uwagake kagari at the 6-way intersections and placing the stitches so there is no space between the red and white peaks. Do as many rows as there is space for, leaving room for one last row of d gold.
  5. Do one row of gold on the red and white paths.
  6. Add the white stars at the 10-way intersections. The stitches for the outer points go over the red and white stitches in the previous layer. The inner stitches are shitagke kagari and are on the division lines that the white triangles went under. Do rows until the outer points are within one row of meeting. (Purple on last diagram.)
  7. Add a row of blue around the stars. I worked around the ball crossing over at the points to get a cleaner point.

Notes

This was done as a stitch along on talktemari so there is a detailed write-up with in progress pictures on temarikai.com. Uses lots of thread, an entire skein of white and almost as much red. I left off the final gold lines on the stars. Matching mari wrap is not entirely necessary but it is forgiving for sloppy stitching at the flower centers. This is about the smallest size you should use for this one...book example was 31cm and that would allow one more row on the flowers. I only got three rows plus the metallic.

Given To

Mitchku Sensei, visiting Japanese teacher at the kids school