ready and steady for Valentine

These are ready and in time for Valentine's Day!

Red thread is 2 strands of DMC Mouliné Metallisé, Jewel Effects, number E321, sold in skeins.
Gold thread is 2 strands of Finca metallic gold colour 0006 n.2/C.

I'll put the pattern in Flickr, soon. In the meantime, I'm already wearing them, just the size I like!

And then, I'm very ready for an upcoming event: on February 2nd, I will be teaching one day course about the treble tatting stitch, at the local lace's association, I'll teach an original unpublished pattern of mine, that, I'm sorry, I won't share online.

Ciao,
Ninetta

UPDATE: pattern is here: https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2019/01/pattern-ready-for-valentine.html

Pattern for the pendant with zoliduo beads

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That's a treat for you... There aren't treble stitches in this pattern, but you know that has been a real challenge for me resisting the trick 😉 and to do not change anything respect the original pendant shown here:
https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/05/zoliduo-again.html

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), zoliduo 5x8mm beads matte metallic lava red (3 left and 3 right beads), one swarovski pearl 6mm, rocaille miyuki 15/0 galvanized dark mauve (4213).

You'll need 2 clips (or 2 safety pins).
SH1 = first (or core) shuttle; about 1 meter of thread.
SH2 = second (or ball) shuttle; about 2 meters of thread.
The 2 shuttles are wound CTM.
LJ = lock (shuttle) join
AJ = alligator join (that is, pass the SH1 thread over and the SH2 thread under the work before the next stitch)
LP means long picot. A gauge is needed, 5mm.
Numbers in this textual pattern are double stitches.
+ means normal upper join.
fhs = first half double stitch
shs = second half double stitch

Symbols for beads:
b = rocaille miyuki 15/0
B = swarovski pearl 6mm
Zr =  zoliduo 5x8mm right beads
Zl =  zoliduo 5x8mm left beads

This is a basic pattern, only rings and chains, for only one pendant. If you like adding a tatted lanyard, for wearing it as a necklace, that is left to your creativity.

Symbols are the same that I found in this page by Nina Libin (Beaded Earrings): http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes2/libinear.html

: = one bead 'up' (on the picot) one 'down' (on the shuttle thread)

Plus these symbols:
Bb* = 8 b beads 'up' (on the picot) one B bead 'down' (on the shuttle thread)
·:· = 3 beads 'up' (on the picot) one bead 'down' (on the shuttle thread)

Please remember (from the same page by Nina Libin):
'UP' BEADS ARE BEADS ON WORKING (left hand = ball) THREAD
'DOWN' BEADS ARE BEADS ON LEADING (right hand = shuttle) THREAD

How to load beads:
Wind SH2 shuttle with 3 and half meters (just a little more than required) and unwind about 1 meter, then load beads (after that, you'll load the one meter in SH1 shuttle). Load beads in this order:

• 71 b 
• 10 b
• 3 Zr (through the hole in narrow front side)
• 1 B
• 3 Zl (through the hole in narrow front side)
• 35 b

Wound SH1 with the thread you had unwound and divide beads: all first 71 b must go on the SH2, then the rest on SH1. That is, you must have 10 b in SH1 as first beads, when SH1 thread will be wound.

Start with a clip (or a safety pin) and the first element to be tatted is a chain.

Chain 5 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 Zr 1 Zr 1 Zr 2 Bb* 2 Zl 1 Zl 1 Zl 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : fhs AJ (after the first 6 pairs of b beads) shs : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 5 Reverse work;

Ring 6 LP 3;  Reverse work;
Chain  2 : 1 ·:· 1 : 2;  Reverse work;
Ring 3 + 1 LP 3; (join grabbing the long picot passed through the second hole of the zoliduo left bead on the first long chain)  Reverse work;
Chain  2 : 1 : 1 ·:· 1 : 1 : 2;  Reverse work;
Ring 3 + 1 LP 3; (join grabbing the long picot through the second hole of the zoliduo left bead on the first long chain)  Reverse work;
Chain  2 : 1 ·:· 1 : 2; LJ to the long picot passed through the second hole of the zoliduo left bead on the first long chain; (do not reverse work)
Chain  2 : 1 ·:· 1 : 2; LP with the shuttle core thread (block it with a clip or pin, passing the LP through the second hole of the zoliduo right bead on the first long chain); (do not reverse work)
Chain  2 : 1 ·:· 1 : 2;  Reverse work;
Ring 3 + 1 LP 3; (join grabbing the long picot blocked through the second hole of the zoliduo right bead on the first long chain)  Reverse work;
Chain  2 : 1 : 1 ·:· 1 : 1 : 2;  Reverse work;
Ring 3 + 1 LP 3; (remove the clip and join grabbing the long picot passed through the second hole of the zoliduo right bead on the first long chain)  Reverse work;
Chain  2 : 1 ·:· 1 : 2;  Reverse work;
Ring 3 + 6; (join grabbing the long picot passed through the second hole of the zoliduo right bead on the first long chain).
Remove the very first clip and join work to the starting point. Cut and tie and hide threads.

Happy tatting.

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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”, came again last week. I'm very slow with this work, I'm still on the same net started last year, but I always learn something new, every time they come here. That is a pic of the net just today:

and a close up:

Ciao,
Ninetta

over-under treble tatting

I found the shuttles with loaded zoliduo beads, started in May, and so I tatted a sufficient length for a bracelet. Then, I finished it with a round only chains. But this time I've used double and treble stitches, with 3 shuttles. It looks like I've added beads, isn't it?
Is that pearl tatting?

Before you answer yes or no, please read this post by Muskaan:
https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2016/05/part-2-present-and-past.html
and her pdf linked in that post, too.

I also prepared a video to show the method used. The effect here obtained by the hidden picots of the treble stitches, it is like the over-under picots showed by Muskaan in her pdf file.

In the video I'm tatting a chain. I'm using 3 shuttles, but only one is the working shuttle (blue thread).

White and yellow threads are used to tat one stitch at a time.
Passing from one stitch white to one yellow,
- put the white thread to the left, in front of the work,
- then pass the yellow from back to the front, through the space between core thread and the white,
- tat the next stitch with the yellow,
- then put the yellow to the left, in front of the work
... and continue the same alternating white and yellow.

In the video (about in the end) you'll see also how I untat a treble stitch. Tatting trebles, the thread twists a lot, so the shuttle must be dropped often.

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/8WQeQofB7bI
Thanks for watching.

For someone interested, the little red and pink edging at the bottom of the video, it is all split rings, alternating threads as the core thread, once over and next under.

Ciao,
Ninetta

almost a pattern for zoliduo

This is just the start of the pattern for my bracelet with zoliduo beads, then you can play with the concept and create your own version.

For this post, I used thread Finca metallic gold colour 0006 n.2/C (very similar to a size 20 thread) and Czech ZoliDuo® ~5mmx8mm beads (Two Hole Pressed Paisley/Comma shape Beads). These are mischievous beads conceived to make you buy the double quantity, in fact there is the "left beads pack" and the "right beads pack" and of course you, just like me, sooner or later, will need both!

Tools: a gauge half inch wide used horizontally (or the half size, used vertically); a tiny latch hook (the Italian name for that is "rimagliatore").

Load CTM 2 shuttles, but before winding the second shuttle, load on the thread 14 "left" zoliduo and then 14 "right" zoliduo. That is for a bracelet length of about 15 or 16 cm.

Split the beads, all "left" beads are on one shuttle and all "right" are on the other one. I started with the "right" zoliduo beads on my right, that for me it is the side of the core shuttle. Then I started a normal ring: 2ds, picot. 5ds, measured picot (that is for the second hole of the zoliduo), and 3ds.

Close the ring. Reverse work.

Slide one "right" zoliduo from the right shuttle (that one just used to tat the ring).

Start a chain: 2ds, picot, 2ds, lock join to the measured long picot, grabbed through the second hole of the zoliduo with the help of the latch hook.

Then 3ds, measured picot, 3ds.

Lock join to the base of the long picot of the first ring. Slide one "left" zoliduo from the shuttle (that one used as ball thread in previous chain).

Reverse work and switch shuttles.

Start a chain: 2ds, picot, 2ds, lock join to the long picot of previous chain, grabbed through the second hole of the zoliduo with the help of the latch hook. Then 3ds, measured picot, 3ds. Lock join to the base of long picot of the previous chain.

Reverse work after each chain and always switch shuttles.
Slide one "right" zoliduo from the right shuttle (that one just used to tat the first ring). Start a chain: 2ds, picot, 2ds, lock join to the long picot, grabbed through the second hole of the zoliduo with the help of the latch hook. Then 3ds, measured picot, 3ds. Lock join to the base of the long picot of previous chain.

Reverse work, switch shuttles and repeat, alternating with "left" and "right" beads. Etcetera.

I hope that the procedure is clear. You can embellish the line of zoliduo with another tatted round, simple chains or whatever you like. I'll be very happy to see your version. I think that this red zoliduo beads are far better than the first clear crystal that I bought, I can't wait to wear this new one!
You can find other related posts, selecting posts with the label zoliduo.

Ciao,
Ninetta

Zoliduo again

Thread Finca metallic gold color 0006 n.2/C, zoliduo 5x8mm beads matte metallic lava red, swarovski pearl 6mm, rocaille miyuki 15/0 metallic bronze. And shuttles!

Ciao,
Ninetta

zoliduo

These beads are intriguing...

They are Czech ZoliDuo® (Two Hole Pressed Paisley/Comma shape Beads) ~5mmx8mm beads.
I really wonder where the name zoliduo come from.

I bought one left and one right pack, there were 30 beads per pack, I could tat two bracelets but one is shorter, that is my fault because I started with a shuttle already loaded and the thread was a leftover from a previous project...

It's a challenge to load those beads in the correct order!

This was only my first experiment, I like this shape a lot and I can't wait to have some packets more, but at present I don't know when I'll buy those again.

Purple thread was an old purchase in a fair, it is a 100% polyester. The seller (if I'm right) was "Le gemme creation isola d'Ischia" that has a page in facebook: https://it-it.facebook.com/Legemmecreation/

While I'm waiting to have more "paisley" beads, I've started another project, that is because the local association of lace is going to hold an exhibition that will be open for 10 days next month, there will be samples from '600 and '700. I hope to have something - very little - done in one month!

That is "knotting", there's a thread in Craftree about it, here it is the link:
https://www.craftree.com/forum/threadfs/37431
What is going to be? A framed picture with a paisley?

A curiosity for you: in Italian we call paisley "motivo cachemire", the word cachemire alone indicates the fiber, from the Kashmir.

Ciao,
Ninetta