Priscilla's bag

It is the "Bag in beaded tatting", fig.91 in Priscilla#2. I would call it beanile "ante litteram"...

All beads are in the ball thread. All chains. 

Thread is metallic mixed polyester, 3 strands, Sanbest colour number 178.

I started with what I thought was the longest manageable load of beads. I used rocailles miyuki 15/0 and haematite, I made my own mix, I think I loaded around 20gr of beads.

The pattern is 30 rounds for the body, then there's the string and the fringe. The string is beaded pearl tatting and the fringe is just long picots in chains, the pattern says 7cm but I will make mine proportioned, so I think 5 centimetres will fit. 

I climbed to subsequent rounds with split chains, a technique unknown to the 1915's tatter. Lucky me!

My first load of beads finished around round 14.

Then I loaded about another 30gr of beads.

No way they are enough though, they're going to finish soon. I think I need at least another 5 meters of beads for the fringe. In this moment I finished the beads of same colors at home, so I'm going out for "hunting". You're right, I just needed an excuse for shopping 😜.

I hope next week I'll have the finished bag and will show you. Fingers crossed!

That is the original picture in Priscilla#2, beads were white and turquoise:

Ciao,

Ninetta.