always a limited edition of no more than 30 units, ornaments just get more elaborate each year!
temari is a traditional japanese craft designed to keep little girls busy and utilize leftover pieces of fabric/string/etc...like little hacky-sacks. they get much more fancy than what i concocted, but that's ok. lotsa geometry (esp in ones like the purple one, third row down, second from the right) and a lot of winding and weaving of string. die-hard sewers use a fabric center (with sometimes a bell hidden in there), but i wrapped yarn around a styrofoam ball (for cushin) and then wrapped cotton thread around that. much faster. :) where did i learn this? from brenda at work and my ever-useful borders bookstore.
it was a lot of fun, and it travels easily---except on airplanes (something about sharp pointy teeth, i mean scissors) |
