tatting sphere

I've tatted some spheres, following the video lesson 183 by Karen Cabrera (in YouTube), then I wondered what they would have looked with beads.

Pattern for the sphere starts with a ring, then it is tatted counterclockwise all around with only chains, connected to previous round with lock joins. It is a different pattern but uses the same technique used for tatting the beaded tatted rope designed by Elisabetta (and showed in previous post).

White thread is DMC Diamant, equivalent to a size 50 cotton thread. I put inside a little wooden bead, very lightweight, diameter 1cm.

I loaded all miyuky and rocailles, size 15/0, in the ball thread.

Beads are put "face-up" on picots, I've shared the how-to here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/10/roberta-was-her-name.html

Like all beading works, it needs a pattern for how to thread beads in the correct order (the ball thread is named SH2 in my hand drawing):

If you're working with 2 shuttles, you'd read it in this way: the right side tells you how to thread your beads in SH2. Then unwind a small amount of thread from the SH2 and load with it another shuttle, named SH1. Start tatting a ring with SH2 (5 picots separated by 1ds), then switch shuttles and from now on use the SH1 as the core shuttle. I worked CTM, only 50cm of thread is needed in SH1 and about 1 meter and half on SH2.
Then, read the diagram horizontally. One bead each chain in first round, 2 beads each chain in second round, etc.

First chain has a mock picot, then 1ds, a bead face-up on picot, then lock join to the last picot of the ring.

Each chain, after a lock join, starts with one ds, then the bead slides in place and it is put face-up on the picot. If a subsequent bead is needed, it slides in place directly without any ds in between.

For example, chains in third round have 3 beads in the diagram:
Lock join to previous round, 1ds, first bead face-up on picot, second bead face-up on picot, third bead face-up on picot, then lock join to next picot in previous round.

I drew 6 patterns, I printed a free seed bead graph paper from artbeads.com:

I finished off all spheres hiding the ends inside. I've not decided how to use them yet, if in a dollhouse room or as jewelry.

They would be lovely, hanging from a thread and I can see 3 or 5 of them as a cluster for funny earrings, too.

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Now a very sad news...
It's with my deep sorrow that I tell you that the tattingsphere has lost one talented tatter.
In memory of Laura (Lalla) Caliò - 1965-2019

Ciao,
Ninetta