Hi, all! I am working now on rather complicated Pentagons division of temari tutorial, but it will be logically correct to do tutorial on making temari base first.

Please, consider this tutorial as one of many ways to do base. When you try it out, you’ll feel where you can make changes to improve process for yourself. You can use other materials, of course, mine are not obligatory.

I like the idea of recycling in crafts. I am as an environmentalist always thinking about giving new life to old things. I always use plastic bags and waste cloth to make temari base. In this tutorial I’ll show you how I use them.

Take plastic container of chocolate egg with surprise. Put some noisemaker like button, coin or sea shell into it. Read the rest of this entry »