renewed on the third try

That is about another challenging pattern for the "Endrucks 1920 Project". 

It is a community project, we welcome you to join in! All infos and links are in the Endrucks 1920 Project Document, here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LEVftXweztBIOWh4sL4BB7bX65ssoOsOn4oXIgCepY/view?usp=sharing

The medallion in picture number 40 in the book drew my attention.

The original models, in the old book, were clearly tatted with a very thin thread (actually I've tatted mine with size 80 threads) but I've always thought that the thread's size doesn't affect the pattern. Anyway, in those patters there are elements very close to each other and the "heigth" of the double stitches could affect the final result. The tatter's tension looks very different from mine, it seems that they used to tat very loose, there are bare threads between chains and rings and picots are different in size, some are long and others are very small, without a clear schema/plan. Nowadays we are used to a more compact look. I also believe that the designer kept the stitch count regular in every pattern to help the tatter to easily memorise them.

On my first attempt, I followed the original pattern, but the centre looked distorted and the outer rounds cupped. The cupping disappeared after stretching it.

Thread is Lizbeth size 80, colour 154. Despite it looks almost fine, I was not happy with it, especially for the packed centre. 

Then, I reduced the stitch count for the inner rings and it was far better, all rings fitted well and was not squashed. Also the smaller centre should have helped me for the cupping problem in next rounds.

Thread for the second sample is DMC Special Dentelles, size 80, colour 818 (pink). I didn't change the stitch count in the outer rounds. The centre is a wee bit smaller than the original one, but that was not sufficient, the outer round was still cupping:

I don't like stretching my tatting because I am afraid that it will break! Then I needed a third try!

Note that in the original there are floating rings in the centre, but I didn't tat the inner floating rings in the second sample and I didn't tat any of them in the third sample. 

Eventually there was a simple solution, that was to "enlarge" the edge of last round and to reduce a little more the second last round. To make that, the ring&chain elements in the second last round have been substituted with split rings...

...and then the block tatting in the last round has been changed a little too, adding a couple of ds for each block at the outer border of the block tatting (2ds x 8repetitions means adding 16ds to the outer border):

I'm happy with the result, I didn't need to stretch it and it is almost flat even just off the shuttles!

Thread for that last sample is DMC Special Dentelles size 80, colours 3778 and 368.

I'll put in Flickr the drawing for the medallion, within few days, with notes for tatting both the original and the last modified sample.

UPDATE: Pattern is in Flickr

Ciao,
Ninetta

derivatives welcome

My post this week is for the "Endrucks 1920 Project" again. It is a collective project, started by Muskaan (read her last post about it here: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-enticing-hole.html ), and I enthusiastically joined in. 

We welcome you to join in, too! All infos and links are in the Endrucks 1920 Project Document, here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LEVftXweztBIOWh4sL4BB7bX65ssoOsOn4oXIgCepY/view?usp=sharing

The pattern of that square is just 4 repetitions of the corner that I designed for the frame showed last week (see previous post), a derivative from pattern #30 in the old book. Then, in the centre, I added a flower, one-shuttle pattern, all rings are 6 double stitches between each picot/join.

The centre of the flower was very open, so I thought that it could have helped the technique learned from a very old rosette, that I showed in my very first YouTube video, here: https://youtu.be/15jm2EkKGTk

About YouTube, one more time I send all my heartfelt thanks to all my subscribers! After the age-restrictions, they deleted all old comments and I lost the infos like the date posted, but videos are still there! I started the channel just to share few unassuming videos, sporadically, so I'm glad they are still public and visible!

For tatting the square, I used Lizbeth size 80 thread,  colour 184.

 

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In the next picture, I'm very proud to show you the Swirling Butterflies doily tatted by a Master tatter, Paola Bevilacqua. 💕 Thank you very much for letting me post your picture here! You are very welcome in my blog! 💕 

She is well know in Facebook for her beautiful tatting, she showed us her bedspreads (more than one, king-size) and jackets and many classical doilies. Also, she has had solo exhibitions with her tatting,  she can fill up rooms!

I am honoured that two Master tatters accepted to help me, testing the pattern. The other lady is Muskaan, she shared her version in her blog (https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/10/multiples-of-7.html)

Paola used white Ancora size 50 thread and and green is Freccia, size 16 thread.

Ciao,
Ninetta 

tatted frame

The next is pattern #30 in the "Schiffchen-Spitzen" book, by Eleonore Endrucks, from 1920, it is available here: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/publicindex.html

There are two files for that book, one is with photos of the actual tatting and another contains simple diagrams and short text written in German, but with an additional page in English with some description of symbols used.

For the #30, the tatted model and the diagram differ a little, so we eventually have two variants. Also, in the original diagram, those little rings on the sides of the central big ring are different from that I'm tatting, in fact the original are rings: 6ds, join to central big ring, 6ds. But in my first sample those rings popped up and I couldn't make the edging lay flat. Then, I've changed the stitch count.

In my version I tatted little rings in this way: 4ds, join to central big ring, 4ds.

The central element in each repetition has been tatted like an onion ring, same as in the chapter "2.2 Inner true ring with second shuttle, mock ring with first shuttle", the tutorial is here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2020/05/onion-rings-not-fried-yet.html

I started an edging that I will use to frame a ... well that will be a surprise... And I needed to design a corner! 

The pattern is completed by two rows, but I'm tatting them at the same time with 4 shuttles. That is a trick because in that way the edging is progressively completed and I can measure my progress on the frame. The elongated big rings are tatted alternatively with the two pairs of shuttles.

I started also a short sample for the second version, with a lovely multicoloured thread. I'll make it longer and use it as a bookmark.

Thread is DMC Special Dentelles size 80, colour 818, for the frame and Lzbeth size 80, colour 184, for the short sample.

I've uploaded my diagram in Flickr with both versions and the corner (click to see a better image):

Ciao,
Ninetta