a little bit of everything

That's a very untidy post. A little bit of everything means that nothing is finished! Well!

That's what's up!

But first, I want to share my thoughts about the treble tatting join (TJ).
There are two methods, mine and Muskaan's. The Muskaan's method gives a slightly overlapping effect, then I think that I would better specify which TJ I'm using in patterns, because you would end with a little bit different looking tatting.

I've used both methods in this doily, now I must find a way to address them correctly in patterns. Should I call them TJa and TJb? or TJn and TJm??? Mmmm...

I'm at an impasse with the next one, I think it's nice as it is or... I could add one round more, but can't decide...

Then, I found a very lovely doily in the second issue of Mani di Fata, that is from 1942.
I discovered that that issue contains exactly the same patterns found in a little bit older german publication, from 1921. You can find the same doily at page 12 at this link:
http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/neueschiffchenspitzen.pdf
That scan has been kindly offered by Georgia Seitz in the page "The Archive of Tatting Books in the Public Domain": http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/publicindex.html

UPDATE: the book is from 1935 and it is listed here: https://www.craftree.com/sources/10176  

Now, I'm very curious how and why that German publication was folded into the Italian magazine... Any of you can answer?

That is my start, that is not quite the same, but I know that you already got me!

In the left corner of the very first picture, there's one of two flat wood shuttles that I bought at Zagarolo, last week. They are perfect to hold beads!

That's all for today. Hope to have a little bit more to share next time!

Ciao
Ninetta

moving forward

Now that I found the two doilies, I can move forward with them, granted that I won't be distracted by something else - nobody should bet on it!

I really wish I would finish this one for the end of this month:

Lately, I added "Il Lavoro Chiacchierino (Frivolité), II Album" to my personal tatting library, publication date is 1942, there are some patterns that are in previous publications, but there is one doily that looks uncommon, at least for me. It looks like another example of "reverse engineering", but I still can't say the lace which could have been the inspiration for. I'll tell you more, after some research...

Ciao,
Ninetta

temporarily out

I'm not disappearing from the blogsphere, I'm only temporarily out for fun...

Ciao,
Ninetta