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Saturday, 18 March 2017

Spring celebration


Star Dahlia by Anna Barzyk
and
Clover by Mariya Darydova

Hexagons always appeal to me - be it in any art or craft form. Tatted snowflakes are aplenty, but the focus is on tips/points with 'invisible' or inferred sides. 
Addionally, I love when chains are used to outline previous elements, highlighting aspects with width.
No wonder this pattern was such a pleasure to tat - a clear-sided, textured, yet elegant pattern.
I follow Anna's blog and love her beautiful tatting and other projects. She shared this pattern here recently. I chose a lighter outline to represent the flower in nature.

Clover is a cleverly designed pattern. Joining to the vsp at beginning of chain in each leaflet creates a charming center which is evident in the left leaf and much more in Marya's model. http://mariyas-tatting.blogspot.com/p/free-patterns.html
The left leaf follows her pattern verbatim, split chain and all.
The right one, tatted first, is a bit of a lazy tatting attempt. Here, I worked all 4 leaflets completely, instead of a split chain,  and then tatted the chain stem. 
I'll be back with something more on clovers soon....

Many thanks to Anna and Mariya
 for sharing their pretty patterns.

I hope you, too, enjoy tatting these as much as I did


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12 comments:

  1. God's Kid18 March 2017 at 17:43

    Those are awesome!!! :)

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  2. Jane McLellan18 March 2017 at 20:48

    Both lovely patterns. I like the look created by 'double chains'. Emphasised by your colour choices.

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  3. Madtatter8018 March 2017 at 22:20

    They are beautiful and I love making flowers out of snowflakes its so supersizing when you add colors to them and you just go right into spring :) Have a wonderful day!

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  4. Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane19 March 2017 at 06:08

    Both are very pretty patterns! I especially like the yellow one. Your chains are so beautiful!

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  5. GraceT19 March 2017 at 15:11

    Looking good! :-)

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  6. muskaan19 March 2017 at 18:36

    Thank you so much Sue, Jane, Carollyn, Margaret, & Grace :-)
    Yes, some patterns just catch your eye, and you want to tat them ! I'm waiting for the clovers to bring me some luck ;-P

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  7. Margarets designer cards19 March 2017 at 19:58

    Beautiful yellow and white together, lovely pattern off to look at your link to her page,
    Will be putting this pattern on my to do list

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  8. Lavinia19 March 2017 at 23:30

    Lovely tatting as always! I also like the effect created when outlining a motif with a chain, usually a different colour. It really emphasizes it. The dahlia would make a nice coaster :)

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  9. annakatarzyna20 March 2017 at 23:17

    Piękna wersja! :)

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  10. muskaan21 March 2017 at 13:39

    Thanks Margaret, Lavington, and Anna :-)
    Real flower pics helped me choose the lighter outlines. Nature always inspires !
    Yes, Lavi, it makes a lovely coaster. In size 20 it measures 3" acoss and 3.5" between tips It would work well with larger thread, too .

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  11. Małgoś 1322 March 2017 at 15:29

    Piękne prace. Gratuluję.

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