game over

Daniela Mendola's design, thread is Lizbeth size 80, colour number 122. For the last round I had almost finished that thread and then I tatted all rings with DMC lavender (I think it is color number 210 or 397, I lost the label).

Thanks for the fun, Daniela!
She shared her pattern row by row in her blog: https://danielamendola.blogspot.com/

Ciao,
Ninetta

shared

That's Daniela Mendola's design, she shares her pattern row by row in her blog:

Thread is Lizbeth size 80, colour number 122.

The fun is that we had to choose each round among two different versions. The version that received more votes was the one shared in her blog.

These are the links for the first 4 rounds:
ROUND 1: http://danielamendola.blogspot.com/2020/01/tatting-sharing-round-1-chiacchierino.html
ROUND 2: http://danielamendola.blogspot.com/2020/01/tatting-sharing-round-2-chiacchierino.html
ROUND 3: http://danielamendola.blogspot.com/2020/01/tatting-sharing-round-3-chiacchierino.html
ROUND 4: http://danielamendola.blogspot.com/2020/02/tatting-sharing-round-4-chiacchierino.html

ROUND 5: not yet available
****UPDATE:
ROUND 5:  http://danielamendola.blogspot.com/2020/02/tatting-sharing-round-5-chiacchierino.html

(Alternative round5:
http://danielamendola.blogspot.com/2020/02/tatting-sharing-rewind-round-5.html)
*************

She wrote that the 5th round will be the last one. I'm looking forward to finish it, but at the same time I wish the game had continued for more rounds, I enjoyed it!

Ciao,
Ninetta

nothing is perfect

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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