Perhaps it’s because music is typically printed in square or
rectangular format, but I’ve always been drawn to square shapes in tatting. No,
I guess that can’t be the reason. Could be I’m just all angles and points.
Regardless, when a friend showed me a copy of Workbasket from the 70’s, I had
to try this from the tatting page:
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| Tatted Scarf Square from Workbasket |
I thought that the onion ring corners might turn out better
than my previous attempts at onion rings. The picots joining to the chains
help. I rather like the negative space with the long picots from the center
ring. I have a list of possibilities to dress that area up: beads, twisting,
complex chains, maybe even daisy picot style wrapping. I left the square
unblocked so that I could remember the issues working through the pattern
easier. The center ring was a bit difficult to keep from twisting around as I
tat the DS separated by so many picots. The chains forming the onion layers
tended to wander away from where they were supposed to be due to the picots
joining. Overall, I do like the basic structure. I’ll be writing up my notes
and practicing making diagrams with this little bit.
It's wonderful!!! :)
ReplyDeleteIt looks lovely ! I like airy centre balanced by the denser onion rings. You could simply twist the long picots before joining, as another option for dressing up :-)
ReplyDeleteI like the way this looks in these two colors. I had to enlarge it to tell whether the pink inner rings were part of the inner round or part of the outer round.
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