|Advanced design; interpreted design from web photo. Originally posted 2008, contributed by Susan C. and Joan Z.|
|Materials: 32 cm circum mari, wrapped in color of your choice
Pearl Cotton #5 in Dark Pink, Light Pink, Purple, Green (or Variegated Green), 1 skein of each color
Marking thread to match mari wrap
Prepare a 10-Combination Division in invisible thread
|This temari is worked on the 6 part triangles. Use different color pins to mark stitching for each of the 4 flowers - this will help to not get them confused. Each pentagon will have 3 triangles of 1 flower, 1 triangle of a second flower, and one leaf. Each triangle touches 3 pentagons.|
|Pin mark the flowers and leaves: Hold the mari so that
one of the pentagon is shaped like a house (corner point at "top
of roof"). Place 1 pink pin in each of the 3 corners that make
up the roof of the house. This is also the center of three
6-part triangles. At the base of your pentagon place a yellow
pin (second flower section) in the left corner, and place a
black pin on the right corner (leaf section).
Use your middle roof pin as the North Pole and roll the ball toward you until you come to the center of an unmarked 6-part triangle. Place a pink pin in its center. This gives the 4 triangles that make up one flower. Turn the ball so that the pin you just placed is on the bottom left corner of a pentagon. Place a black pin (leaf section) to the bottom right corner. Place a blue pin in each of the 3 remaining corners.
Repeat, using the center of your three pins to find the 4th triangle for your flower until you have all four flowers and leafs pin marked.
|Stitch the leaves (green in diagram to left) - Stitching the
leaves before the flowers helps to keep things oriented when
marking the extra guidelines for the flowers. Use a solid or
variegated thread with matsuba
kagari / straight stitch to fill in the leaf triangle,
crossing the stitches in the middle.
Adding the extra marking lines: Each flower is made up of four 6-part triangles. The center triangle is the center of the flower. Each flower will have 18 guide lines. Add extra guidelines as shown in red in diagram 2. Remember to extend the guidelines to the outside edges of of the flower triangles. Stitch the flower using Uwagake Chidori for a kiku motif. It takes 5 or 6 rows to complete a flower, depending on the size of the mari.
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