Continuing in my spring flower temari theme, the next pattern I decided to do out of Barb’s book was “Bellflower.” Her original design called for a lighter blue background, but I had some brighter, darker blue already, so I used that, and I think it turned out quite nicely. I also recall that the original pattern called for fewer lines of one of the shades of blue in the petals, but I was in the zone and inadvertently did equal amounts for each gradation, and then I decided it looked good anyway, so I left it rather than rip it out.
I also added the green center. The circular part is done with spiderweb stitching, and then when it still looked a bit empty, I added the short straight stitches between each of the guidelines.
Face of the Bellflower ball
Obi of the Bellflower ball
The obi of this ball got a nice cross-hatching over the regular obi wrapping. I like this look, so as you’ll see in some of the other balls I’ll be posting soon, I end up using it a lot for simple division balls (ie, balls divided into just two faces, usually with the same design on each face.)
Very pretty! What do you do with the balls? Do they hang on a tree or go in a bowl?
Currently they all sit in an enormous decorative brandy snifter I found at Michael’s, but if I make even one more (which I did last night) they won’t fit anymore. So I need more bowls, I guess.