That's how I'm trying to sort it out, even those joins in the inner row of the border seem barely fathomable in this moment:
I like that froufrou look, very vintage. I've shortened few picots and one corner of my edging is almost completed, I need one wheel and one flower. I played again with the zoom I took from the pfd file, trying to figure out the inner row.
Priscilla's words: "Along the inner edge of the border, make a double row of rings (each of 7ds, 7pp separated by 2ds, 7ds, close) joined by the first picot, and the outer row joined to the wheels and four-leaved figures..."
Well, I'm always puzzled by the word "join" put there as though you were sitting side by side aunt Priscilla while she was tatting and chatting. I can see the rings joined to the wheels by 2 or 3 picots up there, aren't they?
I think I should tat all corners first, then I'll think about it.
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Ninetta
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It's going to look wonderful and I think your idea to do the corners first is the best idea.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful and lacy!!!
ReplyDeleteI have been studying it and looks like the joins are made at only the very top of the ring of your double ring row. meaning number 4 picot is joined that is why you seem to see lots of fluffy picots and wondering is any of them joined, I still love her work and it's timeless beauty you are doing wonderful and let me know what you think
ReplyDeleteThe instructions are as clear as mud, which gives you plenty of scope for figuring! I love the vintage frou frou look, it's well worth reviving.
ReplyDeleteI love froufrou too! :-)
ReplyDeleteI've been meaning to make a big piece with that sort of tatting for a long time... still on my "to-do" list though.
To answer your question, after much peering into a larger zoooooom - It appears that the wheels are joined only at one picot as in the written instructions (look for the stretched picot). The long picots are only complicating the image.
ReplyDeleteBut the 4-ring motifs are joined twice - once to each adjacent ring on the border.
Whichever path you take, I'm sure Aunt Priscilla will be pleased :-) Aunties are never too strict with their creative nieces ;-P
Bardzo piękna i misterna jest ta frywolitka.
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