Still chugging away at small
projects … 2 more of Sharon ’s
flakes visualized as flower flakes, taking my count to 10. Sharon has numbered all 26 flakes with respective patterns here.
Baby Flake as night
jasmine flower flake !
Nycanthus, commonly called parijat or harsingar in India .
A beautiful flower with white petals and orange stem! Among my favourite with
fond memories - watering and picking up the flowers strewn under the tree at my granny's place.
3 strands (Ξ Lizbeth size 40).
5½cms as flake ; >4½cms as motif.
SLTs helped bring out a flower amid foliage. I worked the coloured rounds continuously.
For some reason lots of un-tatting
was involved here, including a thread-break, but I persevered. Wish I’d chosen
a lighter/darker shade of green.
2 strands (Ξ size 40). 6½cms as
flake ; 6cms as motif
Please
note
that the inside rings in 2nd round are linked together. There is a
bit of crowding in the diagram and I missed it.
Thought: Split chains are excellent to climb out to
next round. At times, though, it is good to have separate rounds, especially in
case of retro-tatting. The thread broke so close to start of outer round that I
would’ve snipped and started it afresh. Now I had to retro-tat.
Against a black background.
I’ve chosen colour schemes for
some more of Sharon ’s
flakes but am waiting excitedly for more threads to arrive soon to tackle them.
Meanwhile I’m working on a 2016 UFO!
Lovely! They are true flowers, in coloured threads! My favourite here it is the baby flake!
ReplyDelete😊 They are very pretty little flowers in real, Nin! Do you have them in Italy?
DeleteActually there's also a lyric by Pascoli, "the night jasmine", so maybe I'd answer yes... jasmine flowers are beautiful and scented!
DeleteI do like to see Sharon's flakes in colour, so effective.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun for sure, Jane, but wonder what she thinks about them 😆
DeleteBoth look wonderful!!! :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the variegated in the Chrysanthemum flower flake!!!! :)
Happy to make you happy, Sue 😆
DeleteSo pretty, love your colors.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like them, Bernice :-)))
DeleteThey are both beautiful!! I need to get back to tatting little motifs. Doilies take too long.....
ReplyDeleteThanks, Charlotte :-))) I now have only a couple of doilies on my Must-Tat list despite all the enticing temptation around, for that very reason ;-P
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