variations on the onion recipe

This post is part of a series.

• the onion dilemma – Part I
• variations on the onion recipe – Part II   (this post)
• peeling the onion without crying  - Part III
• onion rings - not fried yet  - Part IV 
• mock and split but still genuine – Part V
• the onion takes dimension - Part VI
• whichever way you choose - Part VII 

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Continue from: 1. Onion rings with true rings

1.1 Variation: how to join the inner ring

To join outer to inner ring, we use the so called “onion ring join”, that let the core thread sliding.
Another join with the same characteristic is the “Join to smooth side” (JSS) also known as the “Anne Dyer's join” (because it is in the only one book by Anne Dyer). I like very much this join and I often use it in my tatting.
For the JSS, there is a video by Karen Cabrera: https://youtu.be/rN-wsHQQ6Dc

In pic 11 there are two onion rings, on the left there is the one with the onion ring join, on the right the other with the JSS.

1.2 Variation: tatting the outer ring

For the outer ring, Aurora Lozada shares her “perfect method” here: https://tathelper.blogspot.com/2014/05/my-perfect-onion-ring.html#more
She suggests tatting the first ds of the outer ring and then moving the inner ring down, so that it will be trapped into the outer ring's loop.
Her tutorial has been shared as a pdf, too, in Georgia Seitz’s site: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2014/auroralozadamethodonionring.pdf
(Aurora, in the same tutorial, also explains her method to tat “Split Onion Rings”)

In my case, I chose to add that first ds to the total stitches’ count (that is I tatted 1ds, then moved the inner ring, then continued with 5ds, and so on).

Kathleen Minniti shared a slight variation, that is she captures the inner ring in the first half stitch (within the loop after flipping the stitch) and proceeds with the 2nd half stitch. (I like this variation and I think I will use it. If I remember to!)
I didn’t take pictures for this variant, but you find the reference and pictures by Muskaan here: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2019/12/concentricity-pattern.html
=> UPDATE: This is the step-by-step tutorial by Muskaan for the Captured Onion Ring, Kathleen Minniti's method:
https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/05/captured-onion-rings.html

=> a second UPDATE: Muskaan wrote another post, comparing Aurora's, Kathleen's and a third method suggested by Judith Connors: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/07/never-say-die.html

1.3 Variation: tatting the outer ring first

The outer ring can be tatted first. That is explained by Anastasija P. Yelisejeva in her site.
She shares a tutorial ( in pdf format) that shows us how to proceed and the two methods (A and B in my picture here below) that she uses to join the inner ring (tatted after that the outer ring is closed).

I've added the extra picot in the middle (that it isn't in her tutorial), but that depends on my pattern.

You can find her tutorial here: http://frivolitatting.com/?page_id=813&lang=en (in that page, look for the “onion ring and mock onion ring”.) (direct link:  http://frivolitatting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/OR_ENG_2.11.12.pdf)

UPDATE: Muskaan shared a new picot: the "Intruding Picot" and used it in a  ‘lollipop onion ring’  ring where the outer ring is tatted first: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/07/picot-is-posted.html

1.4 Variation: tatting the onion ring from the back side

You may have noted that I’ve tatted all variations working from the front side.

But Marilee Rockley shared her method to tat the whole onion ring from the backside. As she writes (and I agree), it can happen to find a pattern that you’d like tatting frontside/backside, and that tutorial will be useful then.

I haven’t tatted this variant, then no pictures.
You can find her photo-tutorial here: https://yarnplayertats.blogspot.com/2016/03/tatting-onion-ring-from-back-side.html

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The "true rings" method is just one way to tat onion rings. If you liked my posts till now, I'd like having your opinion and if you are aware of more methods (with true rings).

But then, you can tat one inner true ring and the outer like mock ring; or tat all mock rings... but for these you'd wait for my next post.

... To be continued!

Ciao,
Ninetta