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Temari Certification (Level 2)  - Writing Patterns

4/21/2020

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For Level 2 certification, not only do you have to submit 10 temari but you have to submit 6 patterns - 3 each on C8 and C10 divided mari.  As I have said in other posts, the patterns do not have to be original.

When writing up a pattern it must include a picture of the temari and a line drawing and written directions. The directions do not have to be highly detailed as if it was for a beginner. But you have to give the mari size, the type of marking, number of threads for stitching, with generic color names, and enough information to stitch it such as where to place pins and what type of stitches or wraps.

Since the course work is 12 lessons and I have to have 6 patterns, I decided that after every even numbered lesson I would do a pattern.  This week, I finished my second pattern which was based upon a picture I saw stitched by another temari friend. 

Here are pictures and the line drawings of the two completed so far. The first pattern is Rainbow Ribbons on a C8 and the second is Diamonds and Triangles on a C10.

Update: Between writing this post last weel and then actually posting it, today I wrote a third pattern. It is also a wrapped bands pattern, but on a C8. This one has a bit more info to assist in getting the over/under order correct.
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Temari Certification (Level 2)  - Lesson 4 Combinations

4/21/2020

 
This lesson is about temari with kiku designs on combination divisions. Combination divisions are when more division lines are added to make  more centers of the same starting value, symmetrically arranged around the ball. The most common combination divisions are the C8 and C10 but there is also a C6 and a double C8 and even though it is not considered a combination division, a S4 with an obi (equator) is a C4. 

C10 marked maris have pentagons, diamonds and triangle shapes formed with the division lines. C8 marked mari have squares, triangles and diamond shapes; and C6 marked mari have squares and triangles

I started this lesson at the beginning of March and then I went to Mesa, AZ for a metal/patina workshop.
I worked on the first temari, Blue Poppies on a C10. A good way into it I knew it was a massive fail. The measurements were not consistent from center to center and the more I looked at the mari I could see it was not really round.  So I set it aside and started over. 

Then the Covid-19 pandemic hit and in someways my life bordered on chaos.  It wasn't until the end of March that I even felt like doing any stitching but I did finish it. Though I like how it looks I doubt I will stitch this pattern again for a very very long time. 

Then at the start of April I started the second temari, Emerald Isle pattern in the lesson which is stitched on a C8. This was easier but I found it boring. I finished it in the second week. 

But they are both completed.  Next up is writing another pattern as I have to submit 6 as part of my certification work; luckily they do not have to be original patterns!

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