invisi-balls

I was playing with one of my patterns ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/ninettacaruso/6390980273/in/set-72157625675658822 ), the idea is to modify the pattern to change the snowflake shape and make another set of 7 motifs for a tattingram.

I've thought about a Xmas theme, and I've just solved also the tricky part that is the parallelogram.

But I wanted to add something gold, and that was my fault: I remembered the small glass balls that I bought  this summer, perfect for Xmas tiny balls, quite invisible in a Xmas tree... All my tatting is quite invisible, with size 80 threads, should I better start a bedspread?

More invisiballs will come...

Ciao,
Ninetta

fior di filet - Part 3

The last chain of the block tatting has been blocked with a lock join (with the green thread) just in the middle between two blocks. I didn't reverse work but I did a shoelace trick to switch shuttle and change the color. Here is the corner:

Chain*: 7-5
Ring: 3+(to last picot of last ring of the trefoil)3+(to central picot of last ring of the trefoil)3-3
Chain: 3
Ring: 3+(to previous ring)6-6-3
Chain: 2
Ring: 3+(to previous ring)9-9-3
Chain: 2
Ring: 3+(to previous ring)6-6-3
Chain: 3
Ring: 3+(to previous ring)3-3-3
Chain: 5+(to the first Chain*)7

I did a normal join in the middle of two block, then reversed work.

Then I started another chain of 6ds, that became part of the next block of block tatting.
After making the trefoil motif, here is a picture that show where I shuttle joined the last chain of the block:

Then I went on with corners and sides ...

...till the last corner. The first ring of the trefoil is joined to the last ring of the corner in its first and second picots.

To finish, I blocked ends passing the green thread under the bare thread left (in the "first" round) while joining the last block to the point between the very first ring and chain.

Well, that's all. I'll be so happy if you like it, first because I had fun challenging me to mimic the filet and tatting it and second because I loved sharing this fun with you.

Ciao,
Ninetta

fior di filet - Part 2

In this post I continue with the photo-tutorial for the squared flower inspired by Sardinian filet lace.

In the previous post there's how to tat the central part; it's not really a two rounds pattern because the inner part flows into the outer part. For me SH1 is the green thread, SH2 the orange. Sorry for the bad quality of these photos, orange became red!

My gauge with size 80 thread is 14ds per centimeter.

Coiless safety pins are very useful as stitch markers too, but I feel as I can't tat block tatting in the same way without them. I put the pin just after the last ds in the first chain of block tatting because I needed a picot exactly there.

pic. 1

After four repetitions, I made a normal join to the starting point, between first ring and first chain, leaving a very short bare of SH2 thread, needed for the closure of the pattern at the end of the outer round. Do not reverse work.

pic. 2

Then, you see in pic.2 that I changed the direction of tatting, there's no need of any shoelace trick here because the next chain will be part of the block tatting below. Make a lock join (with the green thread) to secure this chain.

pic. 3

Then make a chain of 3ds and with SH2 make a trefoil: ring 3-3-3-3; ring 3+3-3-3; ring 3+3-3-3; back with SH1, make another chain of 3ds.
I took the pin out at this point. Lock join with SH1.

pic. 4

The last chain of the block tatting that is below the trefoil has been done in reverse tatting, the green thread in the photo. A lock join (with the green thread) blocks it in position. Try to join to the green bare thread under the central ring.

And then... to be continued in the next post!

Ciao,
Ninetta

an edging to match with "fiore di filet"

It's not as bad, isn't it? Well, I haven't got another square tatted yet, but I took some photos while I was tatting.

Two shuttles pattern, shoe lace tricks, shuttle lock joins, reverse tatting, block tatting...

Lucky me! A good friend ( http://tennbrown.blogspot.it/ ) had sent me a ton of pins. They come in handy with all this block tatting! Thank you very much!

pic. 1

(I added the second thread without knots, with the help of Jane Eborall! Check it in her website!)

The square of previous post, the "flower of filet", started with a little ring 3-3. I used two colours to better show the pattern and then it could be clearer when I switched shuttles.

pic.2

After the little ring, I haven't reversed work, added the second shuttle and tatted one ds, a very small picot (vsp) and 6ds.

pic. 3

Then I've tatted 4 rows of block tatting ( see http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2012/blockpatterson.jpg).
With the orange thread (the core tread in that position) I tatted a ring 3+3, joining to previous ring.

... to be continued (with the same chain showed in pic.1).

Ciao,
Ninetta

sardinian inspirations

When you're feeling down there're nothing better than friends that cheer you up and something new to learn.

In the picture there's also a corner of my sampler started after the class of Sardinian Bosa filet.

I've almost finished the hanky with daisy chains and I've started a new tatting project for Christmas. That it isn't the conical helix, that's beyond my capacity, not for this year, at least!

Ciao,
Ninetta

UPDATE: pattern shared here:
https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.it/2014/11/an-edging-to-match-with-fiore-di-filet.html
https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.it/2014/11/fior-di-filet-part-2.html
https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.it/2014/11/fior-di-filet-part-3.html

irregular

An irregular doily could be sign of several things.
- the tatter sporadically forgot to control herself, or to regulate thread tension or to read instructions (or all together)
- she suffers from indeciveness when it comes to colours
- she has been overwhelmed by too much techniques in that narrow area
- she worn her fingers out hiding too much ends with the needle (poor thing!)
- definitely you would say that she needed a second chance...

That grammar book in the picture was printed in 1954, I treasure it because of handnotes written by my father. Men in the picture joke with the word "irregular": man1: "what's irregular(wrong)?" man2: "spark plugs burned." (well, that's my best irregular translation!)

How do you finish ends?
I find this link very instructive: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes/ends.html

UPDATE: the link to the pattern "Under an African Sky Doily" by Jane McLellan is here: https://janemactats.blogspot.com/2014/03/doily-pattern.html
Ciao,
Ninetta