I finished the batch of little ones that I wrapped the other day.  I don’t have them added to my notebook yet but I’ll get to that before the weekend and parade them in the sidebar.

I wanted to share the group as a whole though because they are a study of wrapped band techniques.

Here’s a picture to give you an idea of scale:

That's my average size hand holding these

And another one to give you a better look at the designs:

a collection of small temari using different wrapped band techniques

I’m pretty happy with these little guys.  Here’s a description of the techniques, starting from the bottom left ball:

1. Orange wrap with green and blue bands:  These bands are simply layered.  The green ones went on first, followed by the blue ones and then the obi.  This is the easiest technique of all of them.
2. Blue wrap with pink, green and yellow stripes:  These bands are interwoven starting from the outer edge of the band and working inward.
3. Black wrap with crayon colors:  These bands are also interwoven starting from the outer edge and working inward.  I added a black starburst over the intersection to highlight the way the colors come to a point.
4. Green wrap, pink and yellow stripes:  These bands were interwoven, wrapped from the inside to the outer edge.  The  yellow star was stitched last but it follows the path that the next row would have taken if there had been room without it slipping.
5. Red wrap, purple and black bands:  These bands are interlocked.

In terms of difficulty I would last them in this order:  1, 4, 2, 3, 5.

For each of these I used the same division (a Simple 8 ) and I used the same technique around the equator too so you can see how it looks at a simpler level.

equator view

These were really fun to stitch up.  Since they are so small and I’ve been working on my eyeballing skills I did not measure for any of them.  I just put on the Simple 8 lines by eye and got right to the stitching.  They are not completely accurate; I wouldn’t enter them in the state fair or anything.  But they are more than close enough for my purposes:  a quick play with bands and a fun way to fill up a glass jar.  I think that I could do any marking by eye on something this small.  They were not nearly as putzy to work on as I expected.

I am not done exploring wrapped bands just yet.  These are the basic interactions between the bands but you can also do combinations of weaving and layering like I did in the star pattern investigation.  Also, all of these could be explored on combination divisions.  I think I’ll continue the tiny theme and use up my #8 perle while building a pretty little collection.