Spring has been coming in fits and starts here, so back at the beginning of March, I was rather longing to see some flowers, so I cracked open my copy of my temari teacher’s book and starting doing some flower-themed patterns. This one is called “Trillium,” and I was very pleased with how it turned out.
Face of the Trillium ball
Obi of the Trillium ball
Because I am a backwards sort of person in how I’ve learned to embroider these balls, I actually find the trefoil stitching on this ball to be fun and easy, whereas the straight stitches around the edges for extra effect were more difficult because I basically just had to eyeball where each stitch ended off in relation to the others. It was good practice, and it turned out pretty, so yay!
[...] 29, 2009 by Dana Continuing in my spring flower temari theme, the next pattern I decided to do out of Barb’s book was “Bellflower.” Her [...]