no mirror, no tiling

Celtic earrings with treble tatting stitches.

What does the title mean? You're right, I should know...

 

Browsing the web - trying to find any instructive site about celtic knots - I've found that Wikipedia has an entry and that at the end of the page there are some very interesting links.

One of those, it is an online celtic knot generator: http://obyx.org/knots.obyx

I filled the form with parameters: (3,2,0,0,no mirror, no tiling), and every time you click the "regenerate" button, you get few different drawings. I chose two of them and tried to transpose to tatting.

Thread is 4 strands Sanbest metallic thread, color numbers 17 and 1565.

If you like them, I can share the pattern. It is true celtic, because I started from celtic drawings, but they can be easily tatted with one shuttle and the ball, the weaving part being only at the end.

It's been very hard sewing ends, it seems that my eyesight is getting worse... I used the camera as it was a magnifying glass! It works wonderfully!

Ciao,

Ninetta

UPDATE: Please refer to the page "Treble Tatting Stitch - Summary" - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_95.html for any info about treble tatting stitches, thank you.

learning the celtic knot

I made that earrings up for the Italian Facebook group, in which we are tatting together and learning what celtic tatting is.

It's not very original, it just helped me to understand the celtic knot. 

Some links where I found instructions:

- a video by Karen Cabrera, Frivolite tatting lesson 82 Nudo celta celtic knot: https://youtu.be/FAAEnw50YbLQ 

- the pattern at the end of Karen's video is by Heather Cook, I found it here, with her instruction - even it is different, it's a knot with two chains - (I thank her also for the tips for drawing):  http://www.tattedtreasures.com/2011/11/easy-celtic-motif-pattern/

- Ruth Perry (aka Rozella Linden) wrote many books with celtic patterns (that I don't  have) and she has a blog and a site where she shares some of her patterns for free: https://rozellalinden.net/free/
http://rozellalinden.blogspot.com/

- Wally Sosa wrote one book that is still available for purchase, I bought it some years ago: https://www.etsy.com/listing/34199697/book-celtic-tatting-with-a-twist

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After the celtic knot, that I closed with a lock join to the starting picot, I didn't cut the thread. 

I tatted a ring 8-8ds, leaving a very small bare thread space, then I curled and blocked it in position (with a normal join), over the lock join, moving both threads up to continue.

To insert the earrings' post, I used the same method and stitch count that I used for the earrings in the "Parure Anne", that I explained here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2020/06/parure-anne-with-pattern.html#Anneorrearringspattern

Actually the celtic knot is just a knot and it needs a rope to be knotted! Then, I tatted a long chain of 120 ds.

Starting a 'dead end chain' may be done in few different ways, there's a blog post by Muskaan with links and pics: 

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2015/03/dead-end-start-to-split-chains.html

Here I choose the method suggested by Sue Hanson, making a mock picot and second half ds unflipped and using a short loop of thread in place of the paper clip, that is because I used the starting point of the chain to weave the celtic knot.

The difficult here is to keep an even tension through the chain. It needs a little exercise. I suggest to push the stitches as you go and pay attention to don't let behind unwanted small picots.

I prepared a drawing that helped me to make the knot and my first attempt was with a shoelace. Starting from the asterisk, I pinned the last ds of the chain and followed carefully my line, passing over and under. Then I joined the two ends with a lock join.

Hope to see your tatted celtic knot soon! Join us on Facebook!

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Woo-hoo! This is my 500th post!!! Thank you everyone for your kind support 🙏 ❤!

Ciao, 

Ninetta 

weave

I often go to the WordReference.com because you already know, my poor English vocabulary don't let me free to write whatever I want, but just what I can, doing my best (let alone the pronuntiation, that is terrible!). So... I found two meanings for the verb to weave, one is to make something by interlacing and the second is to make a fabric by weaving (in Italian we have two different words). I thought it would have been a nice title for this post.

The little motif's pattern is by Sue Hanson and you can find it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20130708071645/http:/freespace.virgin.net/bo.hanson/Tatting/Celtic5PointMotif/Celtic5PointMotif.html

Thread is cotton size 80, the multicolored is Lizbeth, the green was already on the shuttle and I can't remember the brand.

Sue Hanson shared with the group her early Celtic work on her old Web Page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010205004900/http://freespace.virgin.net/r.hanson/tatting/celtic.htm

She wrote that the pattern for her 6 pointed Celtic design was published in the Lace Guild’s magazine (UK) #93 in January 1999. She's a pioneer in modern tatting.

The appearance of two celtic motifs in a line in my blog, it is due to a Facebook event, in the Italian group, in which we are tatting together and learning what celtic tatting is. I'm very happy that many tatters tried it. That's a wonderful way to weave together tatters! 😍

Actually it is the only tatted piece I can show you today, in fact I am on finishing the net that I started in October. I'm halfway, I hope to finish it for the end of this month. I'm embroidering or I'm weaving? As per my own literal translation, because I pass the thread through holes under and over, well, I weave!

Ciao,

Ninetta 

Lorella

Pattern is by Lorella Fanotti, you can find her in Facebook 

UPDATE: she posted the pattern with instructions for the needle, in her blog here:  http://macchecrochet.blogspot.com/2020/03/blog-post.html

Thread is Sanbest metallic, colour numbers 88-51 and 108.

She needle tats, while I used 4 shuttles and it was quite a puzzle!

Ciao, 

Ninetta