pattern for the winter fan

Pattern is in Flickr:

The thread used was a size 80, I think that the finer was the thread, the more suitable would be the result in order to use it, open and close. Another thing that I should reconsider is the fact that it needs some improvements to be functional as a real fan. I've been following the blog by Lila here: http://lilas-lace.fr/blog/2017/11/01/montage-de-leventail/ . She sewed the lace on the tulle, I like her suggestion, thanks Lila. Maybe the tulle "steals" a lot of space but it would be useful for the functionality, to fan oneself. Perhaps the tulle wouldn't be necessary for the whole lace's area. Just thinking aloud.

I've enjoyed tatting my own fan, it needed about 2 balls and one half of dmc special dentelles 80 thread, that is 5gr each ball. I plan to tat another one in white and in size 100 thread, but not soon. I've been caught up in another tatting addiction, I'll tell you...

Ciao,
Ninetta

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I put a picture in Flickr, too.

When I showed the fan to my aunt the other day, we started laughing aloud because the fan doesn't work, it makes only a gentle breeze. Too many holes? Gosh! Who said 'yes'? All in all, it's a winter fan! 😄😄😄😄😄😄

That doesn't matter, I'll use it anyway, it won't be framed nor saved for posterity.

It needs its appropriate pochette. Sunday I went to a craft fair in Rome and bought two fat quarters of coloured fabric, I'll sew a tailored container for the fan but I've not yet decided which fabric, and there's another one that I like

I love that one with cats. The fan closes quite well, beads rocailles 15/0 aren't a issue.

That is my shot at the fair, Abilmente Roma. I broke the piggy bank and I also bought some beads and thread of course.

Last year at the same fair I met Alicja Kwartnik, this year there was nothing around about tatting. Sigh!

Ciao,
Ninetta

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Not so much tatting done during last week but I hope that this would be the last row. I tatted 31 pointed elements in the first row, now I think they had had to be 32.

I found an absolutely lovely drawing of the fans' stand during the International Exposition in Paris in 1867, it is inside an Italian publication: "L' Esposizione Universale del 1867 illustrata: pubblicazione internazionale autorizzata dalla commissione imperiale dell'esposizione", I hope that this link will work for you:

http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/ducuing1876/0662

 

Ciao,
Ninetta

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DMC thread, Special dentelles n. 80 colour 3778, "light terra cotta" and rocailles miyuki 15/0 white pearl. Slow tatting...

I'm slow also because I've started another net in Sardinian Bosa filèt lace (called  “SU LÀURU 'OSINCU”), it's too early for showing a close up, that is just to get a glance:

Ciao,
Ninetta

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Do you remember that I've been learning the embroidered netting lace? The ladies from Bosa, maestre of their Sardinian filèt called  “SU LÀURU 'OSINCU”, are coming again this week. I've prepared another frame with the net stretched and I can't wait!

Those are just another two little motifs embellished with tatting:

About the fun, ops sorry, I mean the fan: I'm trying to figure out how to go on filling the space, that is what it looks like by now, stitches' numbers have been made up and I hope that at the end the lace will fit the shape. That is a "work in progress" pattern, so in this moment I don't feel like I can suggest anyone to follow my madness 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸. Only time will tell 🕛🕐🕑🕒🕓...

And you? How would you do it? In Italian we say "sono tutt'orecchi" (word for word it is I'm all ears), very funny picture to say that: I'm listening...

Ciao,
Ninetta

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I started an edging, just for fun, pattern is the last round of a doily, from Needlecraft February 1925 Vol. XVI No. 6 page 20, that I found here: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes2001/fall2001/spencer.html

That is similar to the pattern for the "Piano scarf edging 1916", here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150907025442/http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art2704.asp

I'm not joining the base of the down trefoil, that makes a curved edging but on the opposite side.

As it often happens (to me at least!), I began the edging without a clear picture of what to do, but now I think it would be nice for a fan. That's because Caterina, a lady in facebook, asked for help in finding a pattern for a fan and I'm very glad she asked because then I started to think about it. Thank you Caterina!

Then, back to the edging. The colour would be perfect for a fan, but now I should think how to continue... I love tatting puzzles!
I'm using a DMC thread, size 80, colour number 3778.

The shape that I've drawn is based on a fan's dimension of 23cm long from rivet to leaves and 10,5cm sticks from rivet to lace, the shape must be a little bigger to let the lace fold when closed. This shape has already been "tested" with the fan I made in filet lace. Squares in the paper are 4x4mm, paper is a piece of a large notebook, a little bigger than the A3 paper size. Also, remember that the lace stretches a little.

(the open fan is showed at the end of another post, here: Robin's magic tutorial )

The vintage pattern asks for an inward-facing picot, even if it is not mentioned in the written text. A inward-facing picot is also called drop picot or clip picot or down picot, it is a picot made with the core thread. I'm tatting the chains in "direct method tatting", that is tatting reverse stitches, not flipped, like in the second side of a split ring. I wondered how other tatters have made it and then I googled about it. I found something actually, but nothing about inward-facing picot in direct tatting. There's not a great difference, of course I use a pin like in the normal way, but if you please, I put a video in my channel, that is me tatting that picot.
Link to the video:  https://youtu.be/d02yb-cKSLI

Useful links:


Some fans' patterns:

• by Rosemarie Peel 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/20041221084429/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peelhome/freepat/fan.htm  (this is my favourite, it is on my long to-do-list!)
• "Eventail" a fan pattern by Lucette Evain-Lacan from her needle tatting book, "La frivolité à l'aiguille pas à pas.": http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2010/lucetteelfan.html
• "Fan-tastic Project!" A tatted lace fan by Linda S Davies : http://freepdfhosting.com/d786a7dcbb.pdf
• by Jane Eborall: http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/fan2005.pdf
• Adrienne's tatted fan: http://reocities.com/heartland/5082/patterns/adrienne_fan/adrienne_fan.htm
• There are fan's patterns in "Mani di Fata" issue 9 and issue 14, too.

This is something about direct tatting:

•  Direct tatting is like encapsulation (http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2003/encap/encap.html), ds are not flipped, they are reverse stitches, for example the second side of a split ring is direct tatting. 
• by Frivole: "Reverse stitches?", there are also interesting comments: http://leblogdefrivole.blogspot.it/2016/02/reverse-stitches.html
• See also Frivole's last video about the "magic loop helper", where she shows how to tat reverse stitches unflipped on a chain.

This is a list of links that I found looking for inward-facing picots:

• Drop picot, Down picot, Inward facing picot: https://web.archive.org/web/20150906013924/http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art878.asp
• A video by Karen Cabrera, Frivolite-tatting lesson 88 - picot en hilo base - clip join: https://youtu.be/UAMMplmI5cY
• Superbowl Sunday Snowflake 1999: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/superbowl.html
• Gina Brummet Shares a Vintage Pattern Using the Inward Facing Picot from Needlecraft Magazine January 1921: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2010/ginabnc1921janinpicot.html
• Mock rings tatted by Jane McLellan: http://janemactats.blogspot.it/2016/05/mock-rings.html

Ciao,
Ninetta

Robin's magic tutorial

I've followed with great interest Robin's blog, lately she shared her way to recreate a magic square starting from a repeatable square (here: http://tattingbythebay.blogspot.com/2017/07/designing-magic-squares.html ), I love how she explained everything so clearly, step-by-step, and the entire process fascinated me.

I haven't tried her onion ring magic square, though. It's beautiful! But I was curious to try the process, "to embark on my own magic square journeys" (she wrote these words!).

Thank you very much Robin for the fun!

There's a square of mine that is completed in one round and it actually needed a "revision". You may don't know but the most difficult part about designing is correcting your own pattern, when you are stuck and don't now if one double stitch would improve it or get it worse. So I did many tests with this little square, I even used one version in a mat that I gave to my mum (the picture of the square is "quad_23" in the album "granny's squares" in Flickr here: https://flic.kr/p/ou5tHa and here it is the finished mat: http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2016/02/prototypes.html).

I updated the pattern eventually and I like it more, I changed the length of two chains and that made a good difference. I'll share the pattern, sorry it's not yet drawn. Thread is DMC size 80, color number Light Peach 754. Then, following Robin's tutorial, I obtained my quad_23 magic square:

But then I wanted more. It seems that these magic squares are addictive, one is never enough!
Playing with Apps is always fun, just like Robin says the "virtual" tatting saves a lot of time and I was curious to see as soon as possible the bigger square. I downloaded an App called "Photo Collage editor (by Zentertain)" in my smartphone and I had the next picture in an eye-blink!

I can see the inverted square and other squares too! But I don't know if and when I will try them all!
The actual tatting is very little, but I like it and I'm going to try it in two colors.

This week I also finished the Sardinian Bosa filet lace, so I'm ready for the weekend we will have in October with the Maestre who are coming again from Sardinia.

(see the frame with my work started last year here: spare wheels  and the embroidery finished but still on the frame here: don't lose the keys (and the tatting, too) )

Ciao,
Ninetta

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Pattern is n.39 in "A Tatter's Workbook", author unknown. I've added another round, just rings and chains.

Thank you for your nice comments, of course Martha ( Martha's Tatting Blog ) guessed right! 😍

And - as promised - this is the backside of the tag for the hand dyed thread: by Tatskool. This is a gift from Fox, I had saved it for something special. Thank you dear Fox!

I've started another edging, this time pattern is from Priscilla #2, fig.13. I've changed it a little and will show you next week.
I've tatted during the way to and back Genova, where I went last weekend with my family for a short holiday. I met my dear friend Maria who lives there, she spoiled me with gifts: many spools of metallic thread and some 5gr. little and old white DMC n.70 balls (no more in production, now white n.70 is only sold as 20gr balls) and then she also gave me an absolutely lovely silver 925 pendant, handicraft from Campoligure. I've already got another old one, and you can see both in next picture, the old one is in the foreground:

Genova is a beautiful city, it is well worth a visit for more than one weekend, even it is a bit far from the usual trip proposed to tourists (you know, Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples...). We've had three nice days with Maria and her husband and enjoyed every minute. In the next short video (3 seconds!) there's the fountain in Piazza de Ferrari:(video deleted, it doesn't work)

Piazza de Ferrari

via XX Settembre

Christopher Columbus House

tatting? LOL

In Palazzo Bianco there's a room with old lace (but no tatting), there were also needle lace pieces (Alencon) that called to my mind the tatting examples on the tulle that are in the booklet "Tatting" by Th. de Dillmont:

I'd have liked buying a catalogue of an exhibition held in 2006, "Gioielli di filo", but unfortunately it seems very hard to find. (http://www.museidigenova.it/it/cataloghi/586?page=1 )

Genova is about 5 hours by train from Rome. But we were unlucky in the way back home, there was a big fire just an hour north Rome and the train stopped for hours (we started from Genova at midday), then at 6pm they moved hundreds of passengers in another train and left everybody in a small seaside town, then finally everything solved at 11pm and we could go to Rome, arriving at 1am and a couple of hours later we managed to be at home. Crazy night. Talking about fires, this is the worst summer I can remember. I'm really disheartened for they suspect arson as the probable cause, for almost all of them. Sigh.

Ciao,
Ninetta

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I belong to a local nonprofit association that has the aim of passing the knowledge of lace, as many techniques as we can, offers courses during all the year and participates in exhibitions here in our city. It happened that an event was held during last week, where various associations participated and there was also a space to display their work. We went, too. Many of us brought their laces and I had a surprise from a friend: she brought a fan that I did!



I had completely forget it! Some years ago - forget how many - I gave her that fan as a Christmas' present. Pattern for the edging is Ila Frost's "block and clover edge" (I found a link, even I can't remember if that was my first source!): http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes2/blocktat/frost.html



We worked in public, I had my semi-invisible tatting and others worked on their bobbins.
Here it is the bobbin lace in progress by a talented boy just 10yo! He started learning in May!!


I also brought one rings' pillow I did last year, edging is from Priscilla Tatting Book #2


and also I showed the squared doilies in Bosa's filèt:


While I was there, I worked at my glass xmas' balls, diameter is 4cm, thread is Finca light gold (I doubled the thread) and the pattern is ... ergh, actually they are original but I can say something only about the last, this time I needed 5 prototypes to get a "passable" pattern, I was looking for that all-in-one-pass kind of pattern, eventually I got it. But I finished the balls!




I tried climbing to the outer round with the method learned from the rose in Priscilla Tatting Book #3, and I think it's quite good, even they're not double stitches. It is a valid alternative to the split chain method.


And what do you do with your last bits of thread? There's not only butterflies out there!


Mirupafshim!
( http://www.learnalbanianlanguage.com/Pages/Albanian_farewell_expressions.aspx )
Ninetta

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