Fireworks!

This is one of Barb Seuss's challenge called ''Open Stars'', I decided to use a variagated thread I had a while now, and wanted to find the perfect temari for it, I think this is it! I just love how it looks.The thread is Threadworxs called Romanian flag, but my middle daughter said ''the temari is like fireworks bursting in the sky'', so thats what I will call it :)

The bigger temari ( 42cm), in progress, is a class taught by Barb. I find this size slightly difficult to manage but definatly learning new techniques :)

Autumn colours

JAPANESE Hand Balls

Sampler Update and completed

previous blog entry here and here

purple

Autumn

Spot the temari!

Watermelon and Red, White and Blue

One more joined the blue stars!

Added one more C10 to the collection

Blue star and friends!

Here is the Blue star completed with variations.

This is a c10 division with 12 pentagons.

The 1st ball on the left is interlocking pentagons, the red one in the back is layered pentagons. The 'star' ball is the one in the middle front, its stitched with interlocking pentagons in dark red and a interlocking 5 petal kiku herringbone in med blue on the short lines of the pentagons.Then I stitched a 5 point star inside the red pentagons with light blue and white threads and finally finished with a red spiderweb backstitch in the center.  I loved watching this pattern grow as I stitched each element. The ball on the right in a light blue base is interlocking pentagons in dark blue and with light blue thread stitched a 5 petal kiku herringbone design but this time the points are on the long lines of the pentagons. I have one more ball to stitch with this pattern theme which I will show once its finished.

I would love to thank my teacher Barb Seuss for her wonderful teaching skills.