Tuesday 17 December 2019

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The treasure chest is open! Krystyna and Anita are sharing lovely patterns of their lovely Hidden Rose adaptations shown here!!!
Actually, there are a few other snowflakes where tweaks have been made. But I’d like to tat those up before sharing. It may take a while, but there’s always next season :-D

Getting right down to it ….

Krystyna Mura’s Earrings adaptation

Now this is a very clever use of thread which she has diagrammed as well. In her own words –
  
I wanted to make the whole rose bud in the shade of red. It is possible to get such a result with Lisbeth 20 "cranberry bush" (colour 181)
This particular thread colour is excellent for this goal
I wound the thread on two shuttles as it's shown below.
The ring - shuttle 1;
All chains [except lock chains, of course]: the core thread - shuttle 2.
Krystyna has captured the direction, sequence and count, etc. all in a single, easy-to-follow colour-coded diagram!

Since I don’t have any such variegation, my model is made in 2 parts. The yellow rose is made with 2 shuttles, continuous thread and stem/leaves in green ball and shuttle, continuous.
However, I captured the green thread at the base before starting the 1st lock chain.
For the outer chains in rose, I went clockwise instead of counterclockwise.
I didn’t snip off the yellow tails. These are easy to encapsulate within the green Josephine chain stem to avoid sewing in ends. After carrying them for a distance, I snipped each off at different points.
Krystyna used the magic thread trick to hide tail ends. I struck upon a new (I think) idea to end on a chain. Use the dead end, floating or single shuttle splitchain (SSSCh) method! Yes, it can be used to end, not just start a curlicue!

Here’s how –
Hiding Ends in Floating chain
After bottom leaf, double the shuttle thread and continue the Josephine chain by finger tatting over the other green ball thread. We are encapsulating the other tail.
On reaching the end, pass 2nd tail through the SSSCh loop, and snip off after about 1cms. Now pull the shuttle thread to close the loop, tugging the 2nd tail inside the stitches as well. Snip. No sewing in ends for those, like I, who cannot do the MTT.

I might do a stepwise pictorial later if anybody asks. 
Related - http://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2016/11/beginning-or-ending.html 


Anita Barry’s Heart adaptation
To see a heart in a rose snowflake is something Anita does well!
The rose count is tweaked slightly, however the original count will also work, provided the heart chain is reduced in length proportionately.
 
count and sequence notated in image
Rose - 2 shuttles, ctm. Use shuttle closest to the next element as core thread.
A: ring: 7 - 7. RW
B,C,D: Lock ch: vsp, 9, lock join, 10, vsp 9 +(ring)
E,F: ch: 18 lj vsp 20. T & C.
Heart - 2 shuttles, ctm. Start with shuttle #2
Chains have thrown rings (TR). Switch shuttle before and after each TR.
A: ring: 5 +(base of rose) 5. Switch shuttle
B: ch : 16, (TR:5), 3 , (TR:8), 3, (TR 14), 3, (TR 8), 3, (TR 5), 3, lj. SS
C: SR : 6/6.
D: SR : 6/6. SS. LJ.
E: Repeat chain going down, with thrown rings... RW
F: SR 5/5.
G: ring: 6-6.
This last can be a single shuttle split ring (SSSR) to hide ends.

UPDATE : Hidden Rose Heart pattern pdf.

I had tremendous fun tatting these pretty quick projects. In fact I used scrap yellow threads for both. Hope you enjoy them as well.
I will see you next with the #23 snowflake ! All photographed ….

7 comments:

  1. What a wonderful way to use color in thread! I love this idea.

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  2. Lovely rose patterns I am so behind now hope to catch up in the new year

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  3. Thank you so very much Sue, Mel, Marilee, & Margaret :-))) I hope you enjoy making these for Valentine's Day next year :-D

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