hearts, friends and flower

 Happy late Valentine's Day and thanks to Muskaan for her beautiful "Block Heart"!

She shared it 4 "Valentines" ago! Time flies (but we all know that very well!). Her original post is here: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2017/02/spring-is-in-my-heart.html

and the pattern can be found here: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2017/02/heart-to-heart-to-heart-to.html

I followed her instructions, substituting blocks with 6+6 double stitches for original blocks with only 4ds. Rows have increased accordingly.

That was a nice tatting, after all the block tatting that I've done for the Endrucks' project (https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LEVftXweztBIOWh4sL4BB7bX65ssoOsOn4oXIgCepY/view). Good block tatting needs exercise, and I thanks a lot my dear tatting friend Muskaan for getting me involved in that project, I've learned a lot from the old patterns and from Maestra Muskaan, she has a talent in explaining things!

I've tatted two patterns, Muskaan's heart and one of mine, for a tat-along with friends in the Italian Facebook's group.

That is mine:

The original pattern is a modification of one repetition of an edging, the original edging and the prototype heart is here (2011): https://flic.kr/p/9Cbm5k
There is another blog post with a little motif that is about the same design: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2014/09/seaaside.html 

Muskaan is a nice friend and she gifts me often with her great tips, for example in the case of my heart, she suggested to remove the top center from the prototype. That was a great idea! The heart is now a lot better!

Also, the heart was asking me for something inside that empty space, so I thought that hearts and flowers always go well together, that is why I've added the yellow flower.

In the next there are my step-to-step pictures for Muskaan's heart (that is exactly as explained in her instructions at page 4):

I especially love how she passed from block1 to block 2, that is with a first half ds folloved by a picot (pic 5), that minimizes the space between the two blocks.

It's a very clever use of block tatting. I love her bracelet version too.

In the next pictures there are some indications for tatting my heart. 

I've called it "Heart by the sea". The pattern is as follow:

Thread is DMC Cebelia number 8. The pattern can be done with one shuttle and the ball. The floating ring in the bottom can be done as a mock ring, otherwise you will need the second shuttle just for tatting that only one suspended ring.
The yellow flower is tatted as a separate element. I suggest to tat the flower first and then attach it while tatting the heart, but in my pictures I did the flower at the end. The bead in the center of the flower has been sewed.

- = picots - they are all small (the design should result compact), 

+ = normal join

Yellow flower:
Ring A: 4-4-4 (in the picture you see where A, B and E are joined to the red heart)
Ring B: 6-3-3
Ring C: 3+(to last p of B) 9-3
Ring D: 3+(to last p of C) 9-3
Ring E: 3+(to last p of D) 3-6
Close and sew the bead in the center.

Red heart:
Rings and chains are all 4 ds between each picots.
In picture 3, you see the two rings for the bottom, that is a normal ring 4+4-4 and the floating/suspended ring 4-4 (that can be tatted as a mock ring).
Those dimpled rings are: first one 12-8-4/4+8-8-4; last one 4+8+8-4/4+8+(to first dimpled ring) 12.

I've already found a good place for my new hearts! (They are still to be sewed)

Ciao,

Ninetta

Update 17 Feb 2021: I prepared a drawing for the Italian Facebook group, text is in Italian. Here it is: 

Please, don't share pictures but share link to this post and credit the designer. Thank you in advance. Ninetta.

put to good use

Now, this little doodle is with my mum, I'm sure she already put it to good use. I could tat it again, even though, next time, I think I'd change something, in fact I was trying to get the effect of hearts over hearts, it looks like I got a rose, instead...

It's tatted with 2 shuttles, no cuts from start to end, metallic thread is Finca gold and DMC red.

I've another little project started, but I'm at a point where I don't know what to do,  it's a mignonette doily pattern, with rings that have also treble tatting stitches:

I had to cut out all the last round, it happens! It wasn't for stitches' miscount, but simply because I didn't like it. That is what a design in progress looks like, at times!

In between a rose and a doily,  I'm preparing 4 or 5 tiny purses, those will be surprise gifts for friends, so.... Shh!!!

Pattern for the mignonette purse is by Sandra Hameed, but I put bugle beads till the last round. 

I found the pattern at this link: 

http://www.georgiaseitz.com/mignon/mignonreview.html

Have you spotted the grey and pink bag in the last picture? It is the "large handcrafted tatting bag", made by Tamie and sold in etsy:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/tattingbagsandmore

Actually, she sells them at a very reasonable price, if it wasn't for the high shipping costs from USA to Italy! But the sweet Tamie found a way to send a padded pack, to reduce costs, and the bag arrived safe here in two weeks! For once, I splurged!

Ciao,

Ninetta 

pattern ready for Valentine

This is the pattern for the earrings I showed in previous post, only text.

CTM= continuous thread method;
ds=double stitch;
tds=treble tatting stitch;
hidden picot= a very small picot every each tds;
LJ= lock join;
JSS= Join to the Smooth Side (Anne Dyer's join)

Elements in this pattern:
- Spiral ring with treble tatting;
(UPDATE to add link: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/08/spiral-rings-with-treble-tatting.html )
- Mock ring (SCMR);
- Curled ring;
- SSSR.

I chose to tat the centre and the contour in 2 different colours.

Start with one shuttle, Spiral ring: 1ds, 12tds.
Left and right earring can be tatted symmetrically, depending if you post, or don't post, the shuttle inside the spiral ring before closing it.
In my next pictures, I inserted the shuttle inside the loop around the hand. You should do yourself the other earring.
I closed the spiral ring, joining the hidden picot between the 8th and the 9th tds (there are 4 tds before the joining picot, if you count from the last tatted)

Cut the thread if you like to change colour.

I wound 2 shuttles CTM with the white thread, then I made a lock join with one shuttle to the same hidden picot where I closed the spiral ring. I hid the tail inside the first stitches in next chain.

Chain1: 25ds.
Mock ring: 3ds, picot (here it is where you can put a bead), 3ds.
Chain2: 8ds, JSS (in the hidden picot of the ring, between the 3rd and 4th tds), 12ds, LJ to the starting point of this outer round.

Without reversing work,
Chain3: 5ds
Curled ring: 6ds, picot, 6ds, close.

After that, I closed the curled ring around the Chain1 and ended the pattern finishing with an SSSR (Miranda's method) of 6ds/6ds.


Ciao,
Ninetta
UPDATE: Please refer to the page "Treble Tatting Stitch - Summary" - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_95.html for any info about treble tatting stitches, thank you.

treble tatting in hearts

For the sequence of steps for tatting a tds, please refer to this post: treble tatting - ideas or watch this video in YouTube: https://youtu.be/ra0NnlqR0oA

What you see (if, by any chance 🙀) inside the tatting, it is an ice drop, a clear rounded glass, diameter is 2cm. It's transparent, it can be hardly seen in the pics (sorry, also the gold thread isn't easy to photograph).

In next collage I put together two pics, the front side and the back. The ice drop is clearly visible from the back.

The ice drop, also known as cabochon, was already nice, even without the outer round with hearts. Actually, those curled rings shaped little hearts around it.
In next pic I'm sorry it's not so clear, but there are two different parts: one flower, only rings, one shuttle, for the rounded front side,

... and another part, a star with 8 points, curled rings and chains, for the back side:

Rings are all 5ds between each picot, and curled rings are 8ds, very small picot, 8ds. Chains are 5ds, picot, 2ds, picot, 5ds, and are connected each other in their picots.

The two parts, flower and star, are connected while tatting the back side, with those curled rings wrapped around the top beads in the flower. The cabochon was inserted before tatting the last chain.
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UPDATE: link to a post by Muskaan, her tatting and variations:
https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2019/02/due-credit.html
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But there weren't treble stitches around my cabochon... 🤔😄

Of course you already know that I'm in the "tatting treble mode", Lol!

I thought the ice drop would have been even nicer with another round, then the heart with treble stitches it's something I've been thinking about for a while...

That is only a first idea, I think that it's something that I would love playing with again. Can you imagine how many tatting combos there are, with ds and tds together in tatted dimpled rings?

Thread is Finca metallic gold colour 0006 n.2/C, doubled (that is, shuttles are wound with 2 strands of Finca thread, it is almost like a size 20 thread), beads are rocaille miyuki 15/0 galvanized dark mauve (4213).

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
An update about the embroidered netting lace, that is a pic with the rectangular doily finished, now I have to fill the remaining space, so the precious handmade net won't be wasted.

Ciao,
Ninetta

a little heart

Today only a little heart, but so pretty! Thank you Muskaan!

I've used DMC size 80 thread. I'm not fully satisfied, I should tat a second one!
She wrote about it here: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2018/02/heart-square-pattern.html

Sorry Muskaan, I've tatted the "dimple" with 6 ds instead of 7.

Ciao,
Ninetta

out of the corner

Thank you for visiting me, I wish you a happy Valentine!
I've just tatted a little heart, at a glance you can't even see those superduo beads, the same color of the thread:

If you'd like looking at more hearts, try this link:
http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/search/label/hearts

I'm very slowly tatting my two edgings, but I managed to have 2 corners for the white one and one corner of the hanky.

Not so much for today's post, but I wonder if you glimpsed my header bar where I've added an "about me" page...

Ciao,
Ninetta
P.S. I updated the post sbrilluccicante  to add the link to the video offered by the "Georgia Seitz Advanced Class" channel. Thank you for watching.

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heartfelt design

Late Valentine's design, but evidence that I didn't forget that day! Happy late Valentine's Day!

Thanks to the online tatting designers' class, I've resurrected my Pinterest account creating a board with visual bookmarks to sites about the design process. I've read, re-read, read again. I've found many useful schematic, I'll try to use them. In all that impersonal analysis you get the basic, the core, of the matter. Then you must put your heart in. That's where all that reading took me to.

I started looking at others' hearts, then doodled all over my notebook's page, then went to the CAT. Just to let you know, CAT is my Computer Aided Tatting, I don't come back always to the same tool, I've a set and use them all. So, I had a beautiful symmetrical heart, then I started tatting prototypes. It took a little before I got a good shaped heart, but I had almost what I wanted.
I needed a break then.

That's the break: the most heartfelt design of a heart that you can ever find. My favourite tatted heart. Susan Fuller's design, there's her whole heart inside it, isn't it, the visual pattern is by Frivole here.

Thread is Lizbeth size 80, col. 154 "Wildflower Garden".

I came back to my design and tried to add "the heart", the emotional appeal, by adding picots, a little curled ring (it looks like another heart!), giving to chains the movement they didn't have in the CAT drawing. I feel it is more "mine" now, I don't know if you like it but I know that I put my heart in designing it.

There's a big dimpled ring though (60ds)! But for the faint of heart there's a tutorial here, I hope that it can help!

Ciao,
Ninetta

P.S. For many of you that are using Picasa, Google has "decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos". Read more here: http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html
 

hearts or flowers?

You choose!

Ciao,
Ninetta

apart

Tatting the 6th round, I bumped into an heart.

Ciao,
Ninetta

lilac doily

The lilac doily is finished. The squared motif has been tatted with a shuttle (ecrù) and the ball (lilac), while the edging has requested 2 shuttles, filled with ecrù. Thread is DMC n.80. It is 25x25cm.

Ciao,
Ninetta

hearts can't hurt

Update(Nov2018):  the method of dropping a loop for dimpled rings, also called dimpled yorkie, it is a technique developed by Sue Hanson in 2008. Here it is a link to a video: http://ladyshuttlemaker.blogspot.com/2008/05/dimpled-yorkie.html

In some cases hearts can hurt, but, please, it shouldn't be the case in tatting! I've learned dimpled rings from Jane Eborall and Karen Cabrera (lesson 86), they both have wonderful tatting lessons and you should absolutely want to have a look there. Jane's great tip is "to pull through more thread for around the hand", that really helps because what makes you fail in closing your heart is the twist accumulated in core thread while pulling back and forth.
Troubles can come when hearts are bigger more than 50ds. I've learned two ways to obtain acceptable hearts, I've numbered pictures and hope it could help some of you. First way (pictures from 1. to 9.): start as a normal ring, then make a loop in the center but follow Jane's hint, pulling plenty of thread and wrap it around the little finger as though you are tatting a chain.
Second method is tatting the heart with the mocking ring techique (picture from a. to f.) so start pulling a loop for the mock ring, then tat half heart and pull the second loop. Before closing the SCMR, put the shuttle (or a loop from the shuttle) through the first loop, then pull the dimple loop to close the first loop, then pull the core thread to close the dimple, after then close the SCMR.

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 E' possibile soffrire di mal di cuore, ma mai, per favore, se si tratta di chiacchierino! Ho imparato a fare i cuoricini guardando le spiegazioni di Jane Eborall e il video 86 di Karen Cabrera. Jane ha un ottimo suggerimento, ovvero tirare abbondante filo sopra la mano, e infatti questo aiuta tantissimo, perchè quello che ci fa ammattire è sempre l'attorcigliamento del filo che si accumula scorrendo avanti e indietro il filo portante. Grossi problemi ci danno soprattutto i cuoricino con più di 50 nodi. Ho imparato due modi per avere cuori accettabili, ho numerato le foto e spero che posso essere di aiuto per qualcuno. Il primo modo (foto da 1. a 9.) consiste nel cominciare come un normale anello, raggiungere la metà e fare il loop centrale ma seguire il consiglio di Jane, cioè tirare un bel po' di filo da dentro l'anello e attorcigliarlo al mignolino come si fa con gli archi. Secondo metodo (figure da a. a f.) : iniziare come un  falso anello, fare metà cuore e poi tirare un secondo loop per il centro del cuore. Prima di chiudere il falso anello, passare la navetta (o un cappietto di filo della navetta) dentro il primo loop, tirare il loop centrale per chiudere il primo loop, poi tirare il filo portante per chiudere il loop centrale e infine chiudere il falso anello.  

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Ciao,
Ninetta