Chiyoe Kubota-Temari Ball Artist

The Tamari Book by Anna Diamond

As our Monday Workshop was all about making Temari, here's a book about it too...

Marbry Corbet talks about this book on her blog here...

If anyone has a book about Temari and think others may like it then please leave a link to it in the comments below this post.

Digital Magazines / 02

Here's another digital magazine for you to enjoy....  this time it's a  FASHION - ENTERTAINMENT - LIFESTYLE magazine and this issue is all about Brazil.

Read more about this magazine here

Happy reading...

Please do leave a comment below, with a page number, if you see something that may interest others....

Monday Workshop - Temari

Our Monday Workshop in November is going to be all about Wrapped Temari. 'Temari' are a simple fabric ball which is decorated with stitch or by wrapping.

For our workshop Jean has provided us with a list of requirments as follows:-

* 1 pair of old, but clean, tights
* 1 old, but clean, pop sock
* darning needles for 3 ply wool & No 5 Perle
* glass headed pins * embrodiery & paper cutting scissors
* knitting wool - 3 or 4 ply - not grey!
* reel of cheap matching thread
* Perle threads No 5 - 3 colours which go well togerher - plain or varigated
* silver and/or gold sparkly thread

If you are keen to know more here are a couple of links...

www.temarikai.com            temari.com

CREWELWORK DAYSCHOOL WITH NICOLA HULME

We had a lovely crewel dayschool with Nicola Hulme on Sunday 2nd November, 2014.
Most of us were beginners and Nicola gave us a very good start to learning this beautiful technique.
We were given a choice of 2 designs on Scottish linen twill.  After a short talk on choice and number of colours we were let loose on Nicola's excellent boxes of Appleton's wools.

Nicola then gave us a demonstration on Lattice work and how to stitch our lines in a sympathetic way to suit our design with plenty of guidance on how to measure with our needle and thread.  We then stitched the intersections to secure the lattice work.

There were two options to finishing the lattice shape, either a single French knot in the centre of each diamond or to fill each diamond with multiple French kmots.