Temari Action Shots!

Here is the wrapped and marked ball. That is a styrofoam ball that I hollowed out slightly, put a jingle bell inside, wrapped in quilt batting, wrapped with yarn, and then DeeDee wrapped it with an entire spool of sewing thread. She has measured and plotted north and south poles, measured and divided the ball into thirds, and wrapped and anchored an equator and longitude lines. She is ready to begin the design work, but it looks as if she's still thinking about the colors....


Here she has begun anchoring her colored perle cotton threads that she will wind around the ball in her chosen design. Note the position of her right thumb and forefinger. Your hands get SO tired from gripping and pulling the needles! I have some awesome 4 inch needles that are great for going through the entire thickness of the ball and I have some INDISPENSIBLE little needle grippers! They're the size of a 50c piece and are to needles what those rubber kitchen grippy things are to pickle jars! They are a must for this kind of work!



Here you can see quite a few rows of the work in progress. The nice thing about a wrapped ball is that you don't have to cut your thread as you work the design. You anchor the end of the thread and just wind directly off the skein so the work goes quite quickly. Again, note the position of her fingers! Your hands are sore the next day from gripping the thread and holding the work tight!



Here she is anchoring a color she is finished with. Note the gynormous needle.

And here is the finished object!

Here is a nice little Temari tutorial to give you a better idea of what we're so nuts about making!