recap

Not much to show you from the last days, I've been on the edgings for the hanky and for the rings' pillow (both finished) and I did a few more, something with bugle beads, testing a prototype for another edging, 5 and half rounds of Renulek's doily. Two weeks ago there was an exhibition of old laces here, organized by the local association, we had a lot of fun and learned too, about the history of lace in Italy. I've also been fiddling around without the shuttle! That's the good effect of the warm weather! I've also cleaned up the balcony and repot geranium, last year I had a colony of "Licenide" that it is a little beautiful butterfly but its caterpillar lives inside geranium's stem, I hope this year they will choose another balcony for their holiday resort.
Sorry, I digressed.
That is the rings' pillow, that I call finished as it is, I'll tack it in a piece of fabric and wash it, then it will be ready to be put away, I hope it will be used one day.

Then here it is the almost finished hanky, only one corner has still to be attached to the fabric:

 Oh, don't think that it's for blowing the nose!

Ciao,
Ninetta

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I'm enjoying tatting this white edging, I like a lot the sheer lace effect of the tiny size 100 thread. That is what I've tatted till now

 

In Pinterest, you know when they send those mails "we found this that might be right up your alley" (and of course I like it), there's the photo of an item (already sold) in ebay, " Antique Tatted Fine Deep Wide lace wedding bridal hanky Circa 1900 NWOT" (in ebay nwot is new without tags); link is here:
 http://pin.it/4kF5a_e


I'm glad that I've found such a clear photo of the edging, probably that one is not so old. I zoomed in with the facility offered by ebay and looked at the connection points between the wheels and the inner round of rings, they are perfectly visible. In a previous post, Martha Ess kindly left a comment here, saying that she tatted it years ago and added some motifs to fill in the gaps, I loved her hint. Looking at the picture in ebay, you can see that the tatter let it almost as equal as described in the Priscilla's but the little flowers connected to the inner rings are five petals (instead of four). That could be another option. But I'm still dithering, I'm also thinking about getting rid of the inner round.

Ciao,
Ninetta

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Thank you very much for your comments in last post, I value all your thoughts about how the inner row has to be connected to the wheels, it will be a nice puzzle when I finish the corners, but I'll be on the wheels for a while.

In my quite tatting corner, I'm still playing with bugle beads and I'd like starting something else, perhaps a colored motif. The "Tuesday Tatting Designers Class" has begun again and there will be a lot of inspirations, we are invited to give ideas and suggestions, too. Anyone who wants to join in is welcome! Infos are here: https://tattinghomework.wordpress.com/about/

I also joined the TIAS fun, I'm still hopeful that it is a butterfly... I'm very optimistic :)  it has got one wing, an eye, it is colored (variegated) and it flies around from one table to another. But actually the eye is wrongly placed, I think...

Ciao,
Ninetta

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That's how I'm trying to sort it out, even those joins in the inner row of the border seem barely fathomable in this moment:

I like that froufrou look, very vintage. I've shortened few picots and one corner of my edging is almost completed, I need one wheel and one flower. I played again with the zoom I took from the pfd file, trying to figure out the inner row.

Priscilla's words: "Along the inner edge of the border, make a double row of rings (each of 7ds, 7pp separated by 2ds, 7ds, close) joined by the first picot, and the outer row joined to the wheels and four-leaved figures..."

Well, I'm always puzzled by the word "join" put there as though you were sitting side by side aunt Priscilla while she was tatting and chatting. I can see the rings joined to the wheels by 2 or 3 picots up there, aren't they?

I think I should tat all corners first, then I'll think about it.

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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It flied with me on Friday, a short journey, just one hour, and landed in Calabria, in front of Stromboli.

Best wishes, dear friends!

Ciao,
Ninetta

light as a cloud

Ciao,
Ninetta

I do.

Pattern is from a booklet "Selezione Tricot - Il Chiacchierino", but a very similar one it is at page 8 of Priscilla Tatting Book #1, fig.24 "trimming".

Ciao,
Ninetta

quad_24 rescued

Thread is dmc size 70, pattern is a variation of quad_24, stitches' count is here: http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.it/2015/08/lazy-patterns-saga-quad24.html

I used the square flawed (can you spot it?), partially amended by Doctor Downplay, and took your advice to leave arms of the square not connected. It measures about 20 x 20 cm. It could be used as a rings' pillow but with something added in the center, I think, like some embroidery.

I copied from Priscilla's frame the solution used there, to connect all squares and half-squares together, with a final round of rings and chains.

We go often to the sanctuary of Saint Gabriel, near the Gran Sasso mountain. There is always a lot of people there, at any time of the year, but mostly busy during august, when a lot come from outside Italy, too, visiting relatives.

On the 2nd of march 2014 it was inaugurated a new big bronze door (by Paolo Annibali sculptor). It is 4 x 5 meters and they say that its weight is 6000 kilograms! There is a website for the sanctuary, but it's in italian: http://www.sangabriele.org/

"Porta degli emigrati" - door of emigrants

Ciao,
Ninetta

priscilla's frame

Thread is dmc size 80, pattern is from Priscilla Tatting Book #2. It measures about 18x18 cm, a good size for a wedding rings' pillow. I didn't change the number of ds for the half-square, only added a chain of 6-3-3-3-3 to climb to the second round.

I love this frame, I like very much the pattern construction, that is making squares and half-squares separately, then link everything with a fast round of chains. Very clever and so simple.

delicious blackberries

Those delicious blackberries were in the "Parco del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga": http://www.gransassolagapark.it/Eindex.php

Gran Sasso - the sleeping giant

Ciao,

Ninetta