Temari are traditional Japanese rag balls decorated with colorful embroidery. Such a toy can be easily made by yourself from scrap materials.
It is necessary
- - soft jersey for the base;
- - thin cotton threads;
- - threads of floss or iris;
- - pins;
- - a needle;
- - scissors.
Instructions
Step 1
Find a base for the ball. It is easy to make it from an old stocking or T-shirt. Roll the fabric into a ball shape. Inside the base, you can place a small bell or a plastic container made from a chocolate egg with dried peas. Such a ball can be used as a rattle.
Step 2
Use a spool of regular sewing thread. Wrap them around the base for the ball, being careful not to deform the shape of the ball during the wrapping process. A large temari will require two or three spools of thread. Before finishing the winding, thread the end of the thread through the needle and sew the surface of the ball with a few stitches. Cut the thread near the surface of the temari.
Step 3
Take a thread of iris or floss, which should be different in color from the base. Use pins to mark the top and bottom of the ball. Draw a string of iris between these points, creating a kind of meridian.
Step 4
Divide the ball into several sectors using the same thread. The number of sectors depends on the pattern you are going to embroider. As a rule, in the manual for embroidery of various temari balls, the peculiarities of dividing the ball into parts with auxiliary threads are always indicated. Sometimes it is necessary to attach an additional "equatorial" thread to the ball.
Step 5
Temari embroidery usually boils down to creating zigzag and angular patterns with a needle and iris thread. The embroidery is not attached to the base. Each time the needle is wound by the auxiliary thread and wrapped around it. The most popular temari patterns are spindles, intersecting rhombuses and triangles, square rosettes and stars with varying numbers of rays.
