blocks' challenge

I've started a doily, I don't know who the designer is.
Pattern's from a book, but also proposed in a magazine that I've had for 20 years and my copy is in Italian.

I started buying "Anna by Burda" because they used to offer a yearly section for tatting, always in May. At that time that was my only source for learning "new" tatting, other than simple rings and chains. This issue is from May 1996.

Anyway, they provided textual and visual pattern, even if the text seems written by the granddaughter of aunt Priscilla (see related post)! I also used a different size thread, so their gauge for long picots didn't work for me.

Thread is Lizbeth size 80, color num.131. I used a gauge of 0.5cm and - luckily -, it worked at the first attempt!

There's a light celtic effect in this pattern, a round with block tatting has to be tatted apart and then connected to the central flower. Of course they simply say "join the block". Of course they say nothing about the direction of the tatting blocks and looking carefully at the picture it seems they actually didn't care too much. I worked with 2 shuttles in "direct tatting" (that is tatting chains as they are the second part of the split ring) and I always kept the tatting already done under my shuttles. That was a good solution for me, I had very few glitches. But this pattern challenged me!

Another round, another challenge. What I learned in previous round, I had to tune in a different way in the next. I tatted in direct tatting in a counterclockwise direction for the first part, then I had to change to a clockwise direction for the other round that connect the 5th to the 4th round. I'm still at this connection round. I tatted the second round of blocks with a dmc size 80 color num.3687.

To be continued...

Sampai jumpa (see you later)
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Ninetta

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