Here’s a respite from all those pictorials – another
vintage pattern made modern and 2 separate rows converted to continuous tatting.
Vintage Edging #4
Needleart
1921 (vol 8 issue 3)
3 colours? Yes I went crazy! Remember that visit to my old
craft shop after 4 years? These are a few of those lovely pastels I bought and
was dying to try out! Size 20 Anchor Mercer cottons.
The 2 rows in this sampler are tatted separately using ball and shuttle. However the schematics provided in pdf are for one-pass tatting – climbing out with 2 consecutive split rings. It is pretty easy to convert vintage patterns into continuous tatting.
Learned a lesson from the CnC edging fiasco earlier. The
first row should face the direction we tat in. Once this base is established,
it is easier to orient later rows.
I tried something different with the 2-coloured onion
rings this time. After tatting the blue chain around pink inner ring, I made an
over-under or alligator join, thus getting a complete blue circle around! No
colour blips and pretty neat result, right?
Sorry no in-process pics – I was happily engrossed in
tatting with these new shades!
Long picots on the onion rings are made using a ⅜ inch
picot gauge parallel to core thread. Thus final picot is half the size.
Instead of lock joining the Row2 chains to these long
picots, I made an onion ring join to avoid
colour blips (I would’ve got pink blips over the blue picots). Then continued
with a 2nd half stitch, counted as 1ds. Since core thread remained
continuous, care needs to be taken when tensioning the chains.
Lock joining the chain would give a more
pronounced/distinct dip.
Future
Idea : Tat Row 1
and return back, interweaving the long chains. Then start Row 2 all around this
‘Celtic’ center.
happy tatting :-)
The pattern is lovely, thank you
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, it's lovely. I'm going to see the pdf, I hope to find the time to try this too!
ReplyDeleteOoh, a lovely edging, especially in those pretty pastels. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI love that the edging is in three colors!
ReplyDeleteI am so delighted that you all liked this edging and in these colours :-) I was almost tempted to use 4 colours, but restrained myself ;-P
ReplyDeleteWill be eager to see in what colours you tat it and how/where you use it. Hugs
That looks great!! :) Such pretty colors!! :)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty colours and edging
ReplyDeleteThanks Sue & Margaret :-))) I love those pastels, too ! Lucky to have stepped into that shop - all new arrivals :-)
ReplyDeleteVery cute to see I will download this pattern, thank you and love your color choice too very sweet!
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked it, Carollyn .... just saw your comment :-)
DeleteColour combination is too good together. You have a good taste🥰
DeleteThanks, Anonymous 🧡
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