A short thank you post to my creative
and generous tatting friends for sharing such lovelies !
This is my version of Jane
McLellan’s Leaf Braid with Flowers.
I’ve been tatting the leaf braid for quite a few weeks now (for hanky, then saree, and now this), but haven’t tired of it yet! And of course this one with buds and blossoms was even more fun. I intend to use this short length on a future card. Worked in Anchor size 20.
Jane also has pics on how to work
the split/SCMR!
Again, this braid can be worked with 2 shuttles using a ball instead of 3rd shuttle for the top half of split/scmr).
Next is Ninetta Caruso’s Swirling Butterfly
This is my one shuttle free flying adaptation.
When
winding the shuttle, leave a short length of thread (CTM) to act as core thread
for the final chain. All the rest is worked as simple rings (one with treble
tatting) starting with the head and moving clockwise. The body is a tds chain worked
last.
So now we have 3 versions where
the original 2 & 3 shuttle versions have the butterfly on a twig. Ninetta has great stepwise pics which made it easy to 'reverse' sketch and tat with one shuttle.
Now this butterfly is a 9 month old
trial that popped out of my Cluny Cluny
That’s it for now. When I complete
the tat-along, I will share another way to do the 2nd part of the
tds – one all experienced tatters have done or seen - as a twisted picot !!! So
don’t fly too far - keep close to the blossoms :-D
The butterflies go well with the pretty leaf braid with flowers!
ReplyDelete... and so much fun, Jane :-D
DeleteLove the braid and your version of the sw. butterfly, and also the other one is lovely, it's a great little pattern to practice sr and tds together. Hope you'll share the pattern, and just because you asked I would tat the head a bit littler and the body with a cluny as last element, what do you think?
ReplyDeleteFooled you, Nin ;-P the blue butterfly does not have tds (the tds wasn't invented when I made it last December), though the closely placed picots could easily be replaced with tds.
DeleteI do like your suggestion about head and body and will give it a try. Thanks :-)
I love reading about your experiments! I really do mean to try everything I see, but I seem to get stuck in one mode. I guess there's really nothing wrong with that either.
ReplyDeleteAnd I enjoy watching you create so many new patterns in your ice drop mode (and now the bottle cap mode), Diane :-D I think we all brighten up the tatting landscape in our individual ways!
DeleteI love your braid and the design
ReplyDeleteThe swirling butterfly I am yet to try and I wait to see your butterfly
Thank you so much, Margaret :-)) Have a great Sunday
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