fixtrot to foxtrot

This post covers Anita Barry's round 5 and my round 6 of Carin Jansen's Angel Choir TAL doily. But the highlight is the fix that she employed! Read along ....

Detailed notes on Round 5 including climbing out options are covered in my previous post here.

This is a beautiful composition where the angels seem to be dancing under blue skies. Love the ombré effect of the gentle blues Anita has chosen! 

'All rings that join are frontside up and everything else is backside. Easy to keep track of frontside/backside elements.'

She used the pink lipstick case to carry the WIP doily around. Clean and easily portable.

She 'felt this round was long', even though 'the stitch counts are easy to remember and joins are simple'. Often one's mental state affects one's perspective, doesn't it? And it leads to frequent mistakes, sigh. Which is what happened.

Notice anything amiss? I didn't until she pointed it out....

'One too many chains one too many rings. I decided to sew the extra chain and the extra ring behind two other rings. I doubled them up rather than weakening the project by cutting it. The double layer doesn’t show much. I needed to look thru a magnifying glass to see where to stitch.'

We can see she is bringing the extra ring to lie behind the clover ring and the chain folds over as well. Then sewing down both!

Here's how The Fix looks (not blocked yet). Love her tip about maintaining strength of project with this fix. 

More tips in next post!

I made a mistake by notating Jan on my pics! Hence am including the next round in same post rather than spend more time in resizing and notating pics again!

Carin Jansen’s Angel Choir doily TAL – Round 6 

pattern - http://handwerk-fee.blogspot.com/2020/11/engelenkoor.html

Techniques : 2 shuttles (ctm if one colour used), thrown rings (trefoil), lock join, SLT if 2 colours are used alternately.

Optional Techniques : climbing out/climbing in, Reverse Join (RJ) instead of lock join and SLT in 2-colour version.

[all tutorials can be found here with several more options]

Carin already has detailed instructions for each round. We are merely sharing our thoughts and ideas, with no reflection on her excellent presentation and design. Many thanks again for sharing.

One can climb out of round 5 into round 6 for continuous tatting. Pathways for different scenarios are already explained here (scroll to end).

Long chains again in this round - remember to keep snugging stitches regularly (don't wait till end of chain to snug) and make sure all stitches are in place before making the lock join.

After the lock join, I continued with only 2nd half stitch, counting this as part of the stitch count. I do this whenever adjoining chains make an acute or sharp angle. I find it keeps the adjacent chains neat and flat, with no overlap. 

Here's a pictorial on how to avoid gapsosis and keep the rings and chain flushed neatly when making thrown trefoils.

In alternate arches (which are not joined to the thrown ring below), I made the upward moving chain, switched shuttles to make trefoil, switched shuttle again, followed by 1 unflipped half stitch to create a point, before moving down to complete the other chain.

I did this because all arches looked a bit pointy in Carin's models. However, my attached repeats have curvier chains. 

The entire round is worked from the front in clockwise direction.

In Lizbeth size 80, it measures 16.5 cms now.

And another Oops from Anita, poor darling - 

Started round 6 at the base of the clover instead of the tiny picot above single ring. Needs another fix!

Life intervenes to make our lace miserable ;-P It's been 6 years since she last worked with size 80 and her eyesight is failing her this time. Motor memory and reflexes, along with magnifiers, have stepped in. 

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Related Posts :

Notes/thoughts on Round 1 ; Round 2 ; Round 3 ; Round 4 ; Round 5 ; more on Round 5 & Round 6