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Temari Hair Sticks by Diana Vandervoort From "Jewelry Making" episode DJMK-405

Guest Diana Vandervoort uses the Japanese art of Temari to create these one-of-a-kind hairpins.

Materials --

Scissors
1" diameter plastic foam ball
Sturdy plastic straw from a drinking cup
Color head pins
Fine black yarn
Millenary needle
White batting material
Kreinik Black Blending Filament #005
Kreinik Balger Ombre Silver #1000
Rainbow Gallery's Hologram Silver #FH2
Shiny Black Kreinik 1/16" Ribbon #005HL
Silver Kreinik 1/16" Ribbon #001
With Rainbow Gallery's Hologram Silver #FH2
Silver Kreinik 1/16 Ribbon #001

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Figure A

Preparing the Ball

1. With the point of the scissors, dig a round 1/2" deep hole straight into the foam ball.

2. Cut a 1" piece off the plastic straw. Mark its half with a pen around the tube.

3. Insert plastic straw piece straight into the hole in the foam ball. Gently twist to bury it to the 1/2 mark, and secure it inside at least halfway up inside the ball (figure A).

Wrapping the Ball

1. Apply two rectangles of batting diagonally onto the foam ball like a baseball so batting covers the surface. With color head pins, pin the ends of batting to secure them. Trim off excess corners so a consistent covering is formed (figure B).

2. With black fine yarn, wrap randomly over the surface of the ball at all different angles, covering consistently (figure C). Remove ALL pins after six to eight wraps. Continually change the wrap axis to move the wraps around randomly over the ball. Wrap until white batting is covered with black.

3. With Kreinik Black Blending Filament #005, wrap randomly covering the black yarn. When ending, pull off about 1 yard of thread, thread into Millenary needle and stitch large random stitches over the ball's surface. This prevents unraveling as you work.

Figure B

Figure C

	Figure D
	Figure E

Dividing the Ball for the Pattern

1. Using the paper strip and pins, the ball is divided equally. Stitched and secured longitude lines provide a stitch guide for the pattern.

2. Place the North Pole Pin: Stick the long Doll Needle upward through the center of the straw hole. Turn the ball, adjusting the needle through the Poles, until the ball spins straight up and down. Stick a white color head pin down through the exact same spot the needle came through. This is the North Pole.

3. Carefully measure the circumference of the ball in several directions with the paper strip (figure D). Cut off the excess beyond the circumference.

4. Fold the paper strip in 1/2, 1/4s and 1/8s. Mark the folds accurately with a pencil.

5. VERTICALLY on the ball, from North Pole to South, straight down, hold the strip onto the ball. Use the 1/4 measurement to place pins around the Equator. Move the strip all the way around the ball, placing pins about 1/4" apart. The pins are not equally spaced yet. The next step will do that.

6. HORIZONTALLY use the paper strip around the Equator (figure E). Line up one tip edge with one of the eight mark pins. Smooth the strip around the Equator; pin as you go until ends meet up. Now move the eight mark pins to match the marks on the paper strip. The upper edge of the paper is your straight edge. The ball is now equally divided into 8ths around the Equator.

7. Detach the paper strip and its pins. Leave the eight mark pins around the Equator. The pins are used as guides to establish division lines.

Figure F

Stitching the Longitude Mark Lines

1. Turn the straw to the top.

2. Cut a piece of Kreinik Balger Ombre Silver #1000 about 36" long. Knot the end. Thread the millenary needle. Enter the needle to exit 1/2" away, near the straw side, in direct line with (any) one of the mark pins. Pull needle and thread through.

3. Wrap thread around North to South in a straight circumference, next to the Equator Line Pin, North Pole Pin, next to equator line other side and enter the needle again near the straw. Exit the needle 1/2" away around the straw, skipping a mark pin. Divide the ball into quarter sections first, then into 8ths.

4. All Mark lines cross or intersect at the North Pole Pin. Align all thread lines against pins to guide equal divisions. Move threads into place for eight regular spokes. Secure the final thread line with a backstitch (figure F).

5. Around the Equator, blind tack each thread line with a backstitch. Move the thread under the surface, come up at a line, back stitch, go under to the next line, come up, backstitch, go under to the next and so on all the way around the ball.

6. Tack the North Pole Intersection where threads cross. Pick up some of the surface wrap threads with each tiny cross-stitch across the intersection. Catch each spoke. Enter at the Center and Exit away. Cut the thread from the ball.

Figure G

Stitching the Pattern

1. A zigzag stitch in a circle is used. Do this one step at a time and watch the pattern develop.

2. Hold the ball with the North Pole at top. With Rainbow Gallery's Hologram Silver #FH2, cut a piece of ribbon about 36" long. Thread the millenary needle, knot the end.

3. Enter the needle about 1/2" away to EXIT at the Equator, Left of a Mark Line.

4. Enter the needle as close to the North Pole Pin as possible, on the right side of the next Mark Line to the right. Lay thread flat (untwisted) and smooth to the needle's entry. With the thumb of the left hand, hold the ribbon down tight at the entry as you pull the thread through. Do this each time you take a stitch. It will keep your ribbon flat and untwisted as you stitch.

5. Row One -- Start A -- Stitch a zigzag around the circle. Complete the final stitch; Enter the needle to Exit one Mark Line to the Left, just Left of the Line, at the Equator.

6. Row Two -- Start B -- Stitch the zigzag now on the opposing lines. Complete the final stitch; Enter the needle to Exit at the same spot and Exit away about 1/2". This will lock your stitch. Cut the ribbon at the surface of the ball.

7. Row 3 -- Start A -- Thread needle with a 36" piece of Shiny Black Kreinik 1/16" Ribbon #005HL. Knot the end. FROM NOW ON, THE STITCHES NEAR THE POLE GO JUST BELOW AND BEHIND the entire first row stitch. The stitch gets wider at the Pole in order to go behind. Stitches pointing away from the Pole only go below the previous row each time. They go down the Mark line; they do not get wider. Complete the Zig Zag, go to Start B.

8. Row 4 -- Start B -- Continue with Shiny Black. Complete the zigzag. Backstitch the final stitch. Cut the thread from the ball.

9. Row 5 -- Start A -- Use Silver Kreinik 1/16" Ribbon #001. Stitch a 4-point star.

10. Row 6 -- Start A -- Use Shiny Black Kreinik 1/16" Ribbon #005 HL. Stitch another 4-point star outside the last to outline.

11. Now TURN THE BALL SO THE STRAW END IS AT THE TOP. The final three Rows are stitched in the gaps created by the points at the other end (figure G). Cut about 36" of Silver Kreinik 1/16 Ribbon #001. Enter 1/2" away to Exit Left of a Mark Line, right up near the straw, on a line with a long point. Stitch three Rows around a four-pointed star. Row 1, space points to the center of the gap. Row 2, space points to touch points of upside down star. Row 3, points go up 1/8". Needle all the way behind the previous pattern to create the "x" shaped tip.

RESOURCES :

Temari Adventures: Fun and Easy Japanese Thread and Quilt Balls
4889960384
Diana Vandervoort
December 1998
Japan Publications Trading Co.
Temari
Website: www.temari.com

Tassel Rayon Chainette--Bunka
Weaver's Needle 'N Frame
Website: www.weaversneedleandframe.com

GUESTS :

Diana Vandervoort
Author and Temari Expert
Website: www.temari.com