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Don't look close, it is nothing but the trick of a magician. My new toilette...

Of course I mean my dollhouse's toilette! I can't wait to have the stool, if you've been following my blog you may remember that I'm collecting these things that are sold weekly, piece by piece. The "doily" is the little motif from the "Nuovo manuale elementare dei lavori delle dame secondo le più recenti variazioni della moda", 1868, fig.15, page 55.

I've started following some blogs where they share miniature pieces, furniture for dollhouse and stunning little flowers. Among these, I absolutely love the "Atelier Sakamichi", a tatting blog from Japan, link: atsaka.exblog.jp. She also has a tatting shop that is here: https://www.creema.jp/c/sakamichi. She uses ribbons and beads, bugle beads too, and makes amazing little bouquets!

Browsing in Pinterest, I found a site on how to make little perfume bottles and I couldn't help myself I had to try them, so in next picture you see what I did. The link is this: http://www.cynthiahoweminiatures.com/onlineclasses/dresserset.htm

The beautiful little flower on top, has been designed by Daniela Mendola. I've been following Daniela's blog: http://danielamendola.blogspot.com and she also has a Facebook page: Daniela Mendola Pattern&Design. My flower is not as perfect as hers but I like it. The size is quite big for the toilette, despite I used the white size 100. There are many lovely patterns in her blog, not only tatting but also crochet and embroidery, she writes in English and Italian.

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I'm still tatting Brussels' squares, different patterns are showed in next picture, but you see in the background many attempts too! I have 62 squares that fit the correct size, and 12 discarded squares that I won't send to Brussels because they are bigger or littler than 3x3cm, that is my fault of course, I've used the wrong thread or/and the wrong tension and/or the wrong brain cell!
In the pictures, I tatted the squares with a Lizbeth size 40 and a pink sewing thread, wound together, that is very close to a size 20 thread.

Patterns:
- Weldon's square (1911 pattern is in Craftree)
- my square pattern (read about it in this post: anonymous)
- Kathy Konek's design, pattern shared in Facebook
- Jane McLellan, pattern shared in her blog janemactats.blogspot.com
- Cathy's square (Cathy de Greef  Tat a Brussels’ monument in pink )
- Carollyn's square, pattern shared in her blog here: tennbrown.blogspot.com

I'm supposed to be an experienced tatter, but I still do common mistakes. Are you wondering if I've the list of what - in theory - I know I must avoid to do? So here it is...

DON'T (((possibly))):
1. tat with little light or tired: I'm that "only-another-ring-before-going-to-sleep" kind of tatter... and then often I retro-tat the day after!
2. tat with tension: I'm relaxed when I tat but my tatting is always tight. Not every pattern asks for a tight tension, for example my first Weldon's square came out shrunk, in the picture above I put the second one tatted.
3. miscount stitches - that is very common especially when I'm very relaxed...
4. ‎make a join without thinking beforehand, I mean that there are many type of join and the fastest one it isn't always the best
5. start tatting fast with any leftover thread on the shuttle, thread can be too thin or too big for the pattern.

I should listen to me when I speak... Ooops!

Ciao, Ninetta

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Well, I'm not a new Youtube user but it's my first time with my channel. 😵😵😵😵😵...

My first attempt was a failure, because the video's resolution was very poor, so today's my second attempt, it should be better.

Here it is the link to the a new video, something that I tried to share just yesterday, then it would go with previous post (http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2017/05/tightening-center-as-much-as-i-can.html)

I'm going to delete video's links from previous post. Thanks for bearing with me.




Ciao,
Ninetta

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tightening the center - as much as i can

tightening the center - as much as I can

I'm still tatting rosettes from the "Nuovo manuale elementare dei lavori delle dame secondo le più recenti variazioni della moda", 1868, fig.15, page 55. The same rosette is in the "Beeton's Book of Needlework"(1870), fig.12 -"circle in tatting" (http://beetonsbookofneedlework.com/page_1.htm#image_12).

 

My thread is DMC size 80. I think I can share such an old pattern, only one shuttle is required, two rounds, so here it is:

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Centre is 8 rings:
First: 5-4-4-5;
Second till Seventh: 5+(join to last picot of previous ring) 4-4-5;
Last: 5+(join to last picot of previous ring) 4-4+(join to first picot of first ring)5.
Close the flower and then "the circle is tightened as much as possible". If you please, watch the video below.

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Second round is tatted with the help of a gauge, I used a plastic strip, the size suggested in the Italian version, that is 0.5cm. Long bare thread are 0.5cm, short bare thread are almost 2mm, picots were done with the gauge used horizontally.

Second round: start with a ring - leaving a short tail to be used at the end to close the round. This tail should be hidden inside the last ring, with a magic loop trick or whatever you want. I used this method: http://sharonstattedlace.blogspot.com/2008/11/adding-in-new-thread.html. The bare thread of the tail left at the start is part of the pattern. Also, I used the magic trick (with an auxiliary thread, like I did here: http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2016/11/that-means-bunch.html) to hide the tail left at the end.

Ring1: 3+(join to one outer picot of Centre rings) 3+(join to next picot between rings of Centre) 3+(join to the next outer picot of Centre) 3, close.
>> Leave a measured bare thread the size of the gauge, 0.5cm, then tat:
Ring2: 4-2-2-2-2-4 (here there are 5 picots), close.
>> Leave a measured bare thread about 2mm long, then tat:
Ring3: 4+(join to the outer picot of Centre rings, the same where there is Ring1 last join) 4 and close.
>> Leave a measured bare thread about 2mm long, then tat:
Ring4: 4+(join to last picot of Ring2) 2-2-2-2-4 (here there are 4 picots), close.
>> Leave a measured bare thread the size of the gauge, 0.5cm, then tat:
Ring5:  3+(join to the outer picot of Centre rings, the same where Ring1 and Ring3 joined) 3+(join to next picot between rings of Centre) 3+(join to the next outer picot of Centre rings) 3, close.
>> Leave a measured bare thread the size of the gauge, 0.5cm, then tat:
Ring6: equal to Ring4 .
>> Leave a measured bare thread about 2mm long, then tat:
Ring3 again.
Continue from Ring4 again, then Ring5,Ring6,Ring3 all around. Finish with one ring equal to Ring4, but join last picot to first picot of Ring2, hiding the starting tail inside this last ring.

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I was uncertain how to proceed with the centre of the rosette, the text gives for grant that you know how to do that and it's just said "the circle is tightened it as much as possible", also in the Italian version. So I found my way to do it, that's not a rule but only how I do it, as much as I can.

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Updated: video is in the new post : "newbie"
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Ciao,
Ninetta

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Pattern is from an old Italian pubblication, "Nuovo manuale elementare dei lavori delle dame secondo le più recenti variazioni della moda", 1868. It is free in Google books.

It's highly precise, unusual indeed for that period. They gave also the right measure for bare threads and picots!

The same rosette is in the "Beeton's Book of Needlework"(1870), fig.12 -"circle in tatting", and there are others patterns in common. It is interesting that the shuttle showed in the Italian version is a flat shuttle.

Ciao,
Ninetta