Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Sewing finished
Thursday, June 20, 2024
A niggling idea
I know I should be working on framing. I know I should be learning that accompaniment. I know I should be doing housework. But this idea won’t go away……
I’m thinking of a way to represent chords and harmony in my
work. Combining Treble Tatting Stitch and Captured Picots (just the terms
Ninetta and Muskaan use) makes a lot of sense to me. I like it better than
block tatting. More versatile and definitely more fun to tat.
I’ll get back to the “must do” tasks this afternoon.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
I have a ruffle
I guessed wrong on the size of picots of this doily. The edge row ruffles. Not badly. I’ll be blocking it to see if it lays flat. I wanted to get a picture posted to this blog so that we could discuss it in classes in the future. I’ll be making notes in my copy of the book.
There’s another issue I have with this pattern. The math
didn’t work out for me. There’s one extra picot for this final round. My
solution is to span the space for a loop of thread to use as a hanger. Anyone
else have ideas?
In case you’re wondering, yes, I still recommend the book.
Learn to Tat is organized well, and the patterns are generally clear with
good pictures and diagrams. Just this one doily was published with incomplete
comment by the author. I wonder if this was a case of ignorant editor.
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Sewing away
I’m sewing my latest creation onto the backing fabric. Such fiddly, mind-numbing work! But it will be worth it. I have a project I’m itching to get to, so motivation won’t be lacking!
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Will it lay flat???
This is the doily we’re looking at.
It is from Learn to Tat by Jeanette Baker. The first
printing of the book had some errors in it. Nothing that couldn’t be solved,
but the stitch count for this doily was a bit confusing. The new printing has
most of the errors corrected. I like using the book because of how the
directions and photos are displayed and the pacing of explaining the skills.
Thank you for the material.
Like many doilies, the tatted piece can end up a bowl or
otherwise misshapen. It’s all about picot size and snugging up the chains. So,
I usually tat the doily along with the students. It’s an easy pattern to learn.
And I usually end up with ruffling in this last round. Blocking usually
corrects this. If not, it’s a good sample to show students. They are more
inclined to keep trying if the teacher can make mistakes!
We’ll see if it will lay flat next week.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
It's coming together
No pictures to show. My piece for the Carmel Bach Festival fundraiser is coming together. I’m using lighter color fabric to mount the tatting this time. I’ll see what others think next month!
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Still taken by this idea
Don’t really know how to execute it. But creating a 3-D piece of tatting still intrigues me. I enjoyed reading through Muskaan’s post using this idea here. I’ve had my try at a tatted “biscornu” hanging in my studycreating space. Yesterday I decided to finish the blackwork piece I started using Bradley’s Balloons colorway from Threadworx.
I have ideas. Do you?