Temari Day
Feb. 22nd, 2025 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythweaver2025Spent an excellent day to day running a workshop for the Wye Valley Stitchers - teaching them to make Temari.
These are my efforts, not theirs - many left with their stitching well on towards becoming complete, but only one managed to finish their ball before the end of the afternoon. (And that one was a mini one, as she wanted to try something smaller!)
Most of them worked entirely from scratch, making a core, winding layers of yarn, and then topping that off with layers of sewing thread. Then they measured and marked their Mari, adding (and shuffling) pins to divide the surface into 8 divisions - with marked poles and an equator. Guidelines were then laid down, wrapped and secure with teeny tiny stitches, and then they worked on a chrysanthemum pattern.
Some lovely examples emerged, and wary frowns were - eventually - replaced with moments of revelation and joy as the pattern slowly evolved with each round of stitching.
Everyone had a great day, and went away with a new technique added to their skill set. Not everyone will make another one, but I think there were a few who'd happily have another go, all on their own.
And I now have at least three, partially stitched examples, that I probably ought to finish at some point ...
These are my efforts, not theirs - many left with their stitching well on towards becoming complete, but only one managed to finish their ball before the end of the afternoon. (And that one was a mini one, as she wanted to try something smaller!)
Most of them worked entirely from scratch, making a core, winding layers of yarn, and then topping that off with layers of sewing thread. Then they measured and marked their Mari, adding (and shuffling) pins to divide the surface into 8 divisions - with marked poles and an equator. Guidelines were then laid down, wrapped and secure with teeny tiny stitches, and then they worked on a chrysanthemum pattern.
Some lovely examples emerged, and wary frowns were - eventually - replaced with moments of revelation and joy as the pattern slowly evolved with each round of stitching.
Everyone had a great day, and went away with a new technique added to their skill set. Not everyone will make another one, but I think there were a few who'd happily have another go, all on their own.
And I now have at least three, partially stitched examples, that I probably ought to finish at some point ...
