vintage trees

My tatting today is for the "Endrucks 1920" project. It is a collective project. It all started here:  https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2015/11/pattern-eleonores-angels.html

That is only a short sample for the pattern #8 in the "Schiffchen-Spitzen" book, by E.Endrucks, from 1920, it is available here: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/publicindex.html

(direct link: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/endrucks/eleonoreendrucks-leichtensternschiffchenspitzenbook1920.pdf)

It is an edging and in the book's picture it is shown upside down, that is the bottom part is the side that should be attached to the fabric. It's lovely, it looks like trees, maybe the single tree can be used in greeting cards, just an idea.

It could have been one shuttle and ball pattern but there's one thrown off (floating) ring, that makes it a 2 shuttles pattern. You can start CTM, all one colour, but I chose to tat it in two colours to better follow the pattern. Thread is DMC Special Dentelles size 80.

The dense trunk is block tatting, you can follow your favourite method to do it. I tatted the rows in a way similar to that explained in Julie Patterson's drawing (2006): https://www.georgiaseitz.com/2012/blockpatterson.jpg

Each row is connected to the previous row with lock joins. But that is not the only way to join. I have a video in my channel in YouTube, comparing the Patterson's joining method to Jane Eborall's method (2007, amended in 2013: https://janeeborall.freeservers.com/BlockTattingEasy.pdf ). This is the link to the video in YouTube: https://youtu.be/oxGV7b3xK20. I think that if you use the J.Eborall's way of joining, you would need to leave very small picots in all rows for the trunk, just after each join, but I haven't tried that.

About YouTube, I'd like sending you all my heartfelt thanks, for I reached 1K subscribers on my channel! That is amazing, I can't believe it! Thank you, thank you! It's a long time since my last video, I don't know when I will post another one. With the "kids' restrictions" they deleted all comments and I lost the infos like the date posted, but I hope that it's not a problem! Videos are still there!

I've uploaded my diagram in Flickr (click to see a better image):

You have already noticed that in the diagram and in my tatting the first row was tatted, then I reversed work and tatted the first ring, then I didn't reverse work and switched shuttle, tatting the second row for the trunk. On the second row, there's no need to leave small picots because the lock joins itself let a very small space.

If you tat only one "tree" and attach the last ring to the first, a little tube will pop up. Sometimes it happens that you find things by chance, so... That are the earrings that sprung up from the tree:

The bottom part is a separated element, 4 rings flower (all 6-6-6-6 rings joined at the first picot), that contains the 8mm pearl, topped by a 6mm bicone swarovski; the "leaves" below are two rings, (21ds-3ds, and 3ds+21ds). I put 2mm bicone swarovski on picots, added one onion ring at the base of the "vintage tree" and finished with an SSSR, like in Miranda's tutorial -  http://tattingfool.blogspot.it/2011/07/finishing-with-sssr.html

Ciao,
Ninetta