Hummingbird for Beginners
Designer : flootzavut (Sarah Warren)
This cute little, very simple, ring-only Hummingbird for Beginners pattern, was shared
on InTatters a few weeks back. I was delighted by the smooth curve & natural flow of the neck, totally in keeping with the real bird shape
! And such a lovely stash-buster, too. Who wouldn’t like to have a few
hummingbirds hovering over flowers ?!
I made them immediately.
Threads : Anchor Mercer Crochet Cotton, Size 20.
Lemon Yellow
; Variegated Purple ; Metallic Silver & Green.
USP : The Downward Picot for neck -which gives it a natural flow & continuity of
form, clearly reminiscent of an actual bird.
The designer suggests that these be made into earrings by
simply reversing the order of stitches throughout – a mirror image. She has
uploaded a Split Ring version of this pattern in pdf format (post#25 in above
mentioned thread)
Trial 1 of muskaan's variation :
This one is my own ‘variation’ substituting the ring with chain,
using shuttle & ball. In this Trial 1, I made the eyes as tiny picots
& the neck with Turn Work (half stitches), but kept the overall stitch-count similar
to the original. For the beak, I left all 4 tails (shuttle & ball) tied together for a fuller look..
But I was unhappy with the overall shape.
Trial 2 of muskaan's variation :
In 2nd trial, which I like much better shape-wise (though it still requires a neater finish & untwisted picots), I have
used very small DPs for eyes & a DP for neck (the reason I took a liking to Sarah’s
pattern!). I’ve added a couple of ds, too.
I just noticed that the hummingbird in the last photo looks positively frazzled !!! Oh well, too late to take another pic.
The Sunflower & leaves are my own original patterns .....
TIP : When doing DP (or TW), I always make 2SHS, p, 2FHS. I
find that this gives a a very clean turn since there are now 3 contiguous half
stitches of same type at each end.
TIP : To avoid twisting of long picot :
Make the loop for
picot & make the 1st half stitch. Then move/snug this half
stitch into position. Only Then complete the 2nd half stitch. I used
to make the complete ds, then snug it in place. But this causes the LP to
twist, as can be seen in some wing picots.
I hope you enjoy tatting these cuties as much as I did :-)
and my humming thanks to Sarah for sharing the pattern
Motif #13 for 25 Motif Challenge
Wow these are very nice and realistic and so tiny like the real thing! I like the green one and the pick and the yellow :) that's all of them :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Carollyn :-))
DeleteThese are so tiny & cute to use on cards, etc.
Good job, Muskaan!
ReplyDeleteThanks , Lilas :-)
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