Still on the flax leaf kick, I've been pouring through my collection of Japanese temari books and finding some amazing designs that incl...

Carolina posted some fun that she had stitching flax leaf design on temari over on her blog Rududu's semitropical adventures ! She learn...

An excerpt from my new book Temari Techniques Do you remember drawing stars in elementary school? You put your pencil on the paper, draw fi...

Add support lines to help place stitches at the outside points. Update - last night I stitched a new temari with this unusual techniqu...

Forsythia stitched on a Japanese temari   Finally! Diagrams for forsythia! Time flies when you're having fun, right? Well, I've...

I'm teaching a temari class online for experienced, intermediate stitchers and something came to mind when I was writing this week's...

Quick post today. This is a follow up on the challenge 20 faces marking sampler going on in TemariChallenge Yahoo group .  Here are a coup...

I've talked about TemariChallenge Yahoo group often. Have you joined yet? I sure hope so. Joan led us through a pattern that she figur...

In a diversion from the flower temari challenge, I'd like to share a new temari with the kiku (chrysanthemum) design stitched in 2 color...

Fluffy poofs of lavender, purple, blue, and pink hydrangeas are my daughter's favorite flowers and are at the top of my list for the Flo...

Lantana Lantana is one of my favorite plants for thriving in the hot summer here in North Carolina. When I saw Caron Watercolors #276 Teq...

A traditional temari kiku (chrysanthemum) design fills this pentagon on the Flower Temari Challenge ball. The kiku herringbone stitch is us...

In my last post Weaving Designs for Fill , I wrote about a hexagonal weave ( mutsume ami ). That's the one I used to fill a pentagon and...

The TemariChallenge group "Flower Challenge" is still challenging me! I'm working on the third of 12 pentagons to be filled w...

Sunflower Temari I can't count the number of sunflowers that I've stitched on temari - so many! This is the first one with a wov...

Queen Anne's Lace  In our TemariChallenge Yahoo group , we have a challenge going to stitch a flower sampler with 12 different flo...