get away

I feel like I'm on holiday from my "normal" tatting, but everyone needs to get away, from time to time.

I've been tatting just a line of split rings, that I'm going to put around a frame in another doll room box, that is for a gift. Like the previous doll room, I've been helped by my new friend "Dalì L'artista", the lady that decorates the shuttles that are in my photos (she has a profile in Facebook).

Then, I've started embroidering another handmade net, with the technique learnt from the ladies from Bosa, Maestre of the Sardinian filèt called “SU LÀURU 'OSINCU”.
It's very relaxing, now that I know how to do it! In the pic, you see that I've only started the button-hole stitch all around the net that I will fill with the embroidery. The net is handmade, I bought it last year.

I'm enjoying this new project!
Do you think that I'm going to replace tatting with the net? Get away!

Ciao,
Ninetta

Three times

I'm very slow tatting this doily, there are many treble tatting stitches, as I wish to recreate the effect of the double lines of ds with rows of tds. It's taking me three times the time I had expected.

I'm tempted to call this quite "a translation", where the pattern, for example, asked 6ds, I've tatted 4tds, so I feel I'm missing something during the multiplication act, as like as you always miss a little bit, translating from one language to another!

I'm modifying a pattern that is in "Il Lavoro Chiacchierino (Frivolité), II Album", publication date is 1942; previously published in a German publication from 1921, the doily is at page 12 here:
http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/neueschiffchenspitzen.pdf

UPDATE: the book is from 1935 and it is listed here: https://www.craftree.com/sources/10176 

You can't believe and you're going to read this line three times: I've even chosen a name for that doily, I'd like calling it "Rosalina", a girl's  name, just because.

Thread is special dentelles dmc size 80, colour 3325; other than the treble tatting stitches, I'm also using the technique showed in last post, that I've called the "right angle" (here I've tatted 1tds and 2ds).

Learning tatting is hundreds times easier than learning a second language. The more I study English, the more I see that it's really difficult. Now, it happens that I just wanted to title this post "3 times slower", quite reasonable in my Italian, my words imply that 1 ds tat 3 times faster than 1 tds. I did a little research to see if my literal translation would have worked in English, I'm always doubtful with literal translations. Well, I found that someone thinks that "3 times faster" has a sense, unlike the "3 times slower", that seems that you are supposed to multiply something, obtaining less quantity... a nonsense that, in this case, makes it right to the point!

Ciao,
Ninetta

a little bit of everything

That's a very untidy post. A little bit of everything means that nothing is finished! Well!

That's what's up!

But first, I want to share my thoughts about the treble tatting join (TJ).
There are two methods, mine and Muskaan's. The Muskaan's method gives a slightly overlapping effect, then I think that I would better specify which TJ I'm using in patterns, because you would end with a little bit different looking tatting.

I've used both methods in this doily, now I must find a way to address them correctly in patterns. Should I call them TJa and TJb? or TJn and TJm??? Mmmm...

I'm at an impasse with the next one, I think it's nice as it is or... I could add one round more, but can't decide...

Then, I found a very lovely doily in the second issue of Mani di Fata, that is from 1942.
I discovered that that issue contains exactly the same patterns found in a little bit older german publication, from 1921. You can find the same doily at page 12 at this link:
http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/neueschiffchenspitzen.pdf
That scan has been kindly offered by Georgia Seitz in the page "The Archive of Tatting Books in the Public Domain": http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/publicindex.html

UPDATE: the book is from 1935 and it is listed here: https://www.craftree.com/sources/10176  

Now, I'm very curious how and why that German publication was folded into the Italian magazine... Any of you can answer?

That is my start, that is not quite the same, but I know that you already got me!

In the left corner of the very first picture, there's one of two flat wood shuttles that I bought at Zagarolo, last week. They are perfect to hold beads!

That's all for today. Hope to have a little bit more to share next time!

Ciao
Ninetta

the right angle - trebles and block tatting

What to do when you just need the right "right angle"? 📐❓

Every tatter knows that the tatted chain loves curving. (There's a nice tutorial online, about how to tat squared rings, that originally was an idea by Anne Dyer, but you need a third thread.)

So, I've been playing with an idea, that - if you like - you can compare with other methods, like adding a very very small mock ring or adding half stitches or doing the shoe lace trick.

The method starts as though I was doing a suspended chain, or a SSSCh:

1) Fold core shuttle's thread and finger tat 3 double stitches

here they are:

2) Now pass the shuttle inside the loop of the SSSCh

3) Pull the core thread on the left in next picture, to completely close the loop

4) Then pull the core shuttle

5) Tat at least one stitch with the core shuttle

6) firmly pull the shuttle to make the core thread disappearing

That is the chain after some more double stitches:

The "change of direction" in next pic has been done reversing work and exchanging shuttles.

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The "right angle" is very useful for using treble tatting stitches in block tatting.
In fact, the problem is that the height of the tds is a problem when you try to climb up to each subsequent row.

The 'angle problem' is solved with a "right angle" with 2ds and 1tds: 

Reverse work after each row:

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I think it works fine, but is the right angle something 'right' also for you? 
Well, you just have to try it out, I'm listening...

Ciao,
Ninetta

moving forward

Now that I found the two doilies, I can move forward with them, granted that I won't be distracted by something else - nobody should bet on it!

I really wish I would finish this one for the end of this month:

Lately, I added "Il Lavoro Chiacchierino (Frivolité), II Album" to my personal tatting library, publication date is 1942, there are some patterns that are in previous publications, but there is one doily that looks uncommon, at least for me. It looks like another example of "reverse engineering", but I still can't say the lace which could have been the inspiration for. I'll tell you more, after some research...

Ciao,
Ninetta