I stitched these three temari for our friends Jessica and Gen's wedding that took place May 16, 2009.

Our annual Christmas Exchange temari this is for Louise from me.

I stitched these three temari in the Fall of 2006 for my brother and sister in law's beautiful new home.

     
In September 2006 I celebrated my 50th birthday, and was awakened at 9 a.m. by a call from Lynne Dare wondering if I had opened my birthday gift from she and her sister, Louise O'Donnell. (Oh, and I forgot to say I was 'asleep' in bed, but Lynne told hubby to "get the old bag out of bed!") Nothing would do but for me to open my gift. These two wonderful friends had made me 50 teeny temari's for my birthday! What a pair of rascals they are!!! Over the past several months we had emailed back and forth, and I've asked what are you girls working on? I've had responses saying, "Linda, I've been so busy, I just haven't had a chance to do any stitching!" and "Linda, my thumb and hand has been too sore to do any stitching!" and on and on... These two incredibly talented ladies got me good!!! Btw, for those of you 'under 50', a 50th birthday doesn't hurt at all!

     
Here is the first of the Christmas 2006 temari. It was the first time I had stitched this pattern, it was a lot of fun and interesting to stitch.

     
I completed this temari in September 2006. It was a new marking for me, and one that was taught to me by Ai, our temari friend from Japan.

In August 2006, Ai, a friend of Lynne's from Japan, and her two daughters, came for a 10 day visit to Canada. I was very fortunate to be able to take time off work, and spend two days with Ai, Lynne, and Louise at Lynne's home in Chilliwack, B.C. The photo shows from left to right: Linda(me), Louise, and Lynne. We spent 5 hours on Monday, another 5 hours on Tuesday doing temari. Ai is an excellent teacher, and makes it look so easy.

     
When Ai told Lynne she needed "more thread". Lynne wheeled all of her drawers of temari thread onto the patio. We couldn't believe our eyes!!! On the right is beautiful bouquet of teeny temari made by Lynne, Louise, and myself.

This is the sunset we saw as we were coming home into Departure Bay on the B.C. Ferry...it was so beautiful!

This is the start of my making temari. I did take a course many years ago, but didn't get hooked on temari until January 2005. Louise O'Donnell is on the left, me in the center, and Lynne Dare on the right. We met up at Harrison Hot Springs in January 2005 and hit it off immediately. These ladies have been incredibly kind and supportive, and have very willingly shared their knowledge of temari with me. I owe them a great deal of thanks!

This is a collection of temari I made for the Canadian Shotokan Karate Association Summer Camp that my son's karate club hosted in July 2006. Each of the Instructor's received a temari, and a stand made by my son.

Lynne, Louise, and I have been doing temari exchanges between the three of us at Christmas, New Year's, Easter, and our birthdays. I gave the temari on the left to Lynne, and the temari on the right to Louise for New Year's 2006.

I did this temari as a gift for my sister in law's 50th birthday in April 2006.

This is a collection of temari that I did for our living room. I started with the 'learning ball' from Diana VanderVoort's book. All of the temari use the same colours of #5 DMC perle cotton, which coordinate with our decor. The wrought iron piece displaying the temari is actually a candle holder that my Mom and I found at the local Lewiscraft store...it's perfect!

These temari are the same Celtic style pattern, but done in different colour combinations.

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All of these temari are samples of wrapped designs.

Another example of the same design done in two different colour ways.

This is the same design done in two different colours, and showing two different angles.

This is the Interlocking Triangles pattern, this temari was one of a set of 5 temari that I made for my Mom for Mother's Day 2005.

The first of many Christmas temari....

A wrapped temari that looks very complicated, but isn't nearly as hard as it looks...

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