Temari

$15.00

One of the non-dancing classes offered at Christmas Country Dance School (CCDS) for the past two decades has been Temari. Modern Temari are essentially decorative balls. Some material is used for the base (Styrofoam balls covered in quilt batting are a convenient stand-in for the more traditional wadded ball of rags), wrapped with a huge amount of thread, and then decorated with patterns of stitched and wrapped embroidery thread. Some patterns are variants of more traditional forms (the Friendship Chain and Kiku), while others are more improvisational.

Temari, as a craft, is highly portable: a one-quart Ziplock baggie filled with the ball, a selection of pins, an embroidery needle, scissors, a tape measure, and a quantity of the embroidery floss/thread or ribbon of your choice is all that is needed. As a result, the “usual suspects” are often easy to pick out in other CCDS classes and assemblages: have time? Will stitch. Temari class is also often a highly social hour; there is time to catch up with friends from years past while everyone stitches their way through the year’s Temari ball, finishes a ball from a previous year, or seriously debates the difference in impression between using teal or a slightly darker blue-green….

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