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Hey, I heard that!!! Stop groaning and moaning. Wow, I can't believe it's been almost a month and I have certainly missed chatting with you here. So tighten your belts, coz I hope to belt out a few posts in quick succession.

But first, let me assure all my well-wishers that I am fine, though still a work in progress. However rehab exercises and procedures break into my day and with renewed strength, I am taking on more chores, hence blogging has taken a backseat. I try to tat as often as I can and am very much immersed in the antique book project, which this post is about (yes, again! and I heard that groan again 😁 but I am feeling evil 😈).

Reflections edging - a motif extracted from pattern #17, from Frau Eleonore Endrucks-Leichtenstern's book ‘Die Schiffchen-Spitszen’,1920. All download links, and more are listed in the Endrucks 1920 Project, and the modern pattern, when I finish writing it, will be added there, too.

Do you recall this same motif in the Lace Day earrings/pendant? What can I say - I love it!

This was my first trial and some tweaks are quite visible. I was going to christen it 'Autumn Hearts' (notice the heart that takes shape between the eaves?). 

When I showed it to Ninetta, she suggested 'Reflections' and when I asked her the reason, this is what she wrote -

"Oh my dear, I always struggle when I have to find a name for my patterns, most of them are called number one, two etc...😂
In this case, I love the fact that the heart shape is like hidden, and the gothic effect disappeared with your new colours' choice. Thinking that it was such an old pattern, transformed to a new one, it amazes me. So, I thought "reflections", using the double meaning, it makes the observer "reflect" and the mirror like image is actually a reflection, and it should be done in two colours to let the heart shape emerge, again, reflecting your initial idea. Hope that my reasoning is not too contorted."

A simple decorative picot, deliberately overlaid by the ring picot within the heart, is what I chose to bring out the shape. Unsure how successful it is.

Tatted in Lizbeth size 80 (#180 yellow in shuttle 1 and #100 in shuttle 2), this row1 measures 15cms x 1½ cms for 7 repeats.

I just Had to play with this edging using Paint, in order to see how to return back for an insertion or broader lace ....

The space between the 2 lengths is deliberate; wondering whether a split ring braid or some such can be inserted in between to tie the sides together.

Here they are brought together and can be joined through their respective picots.

And here the other edges form the central spine.

So many possibilities. I had a couple of ideas for the short edges as well, but in order to get a sense, this same motif is now part of a Snowflake, which I can't wait to show you next time, though a trial piece.

 

When 2nd row is added, the width is now 2¾ cms.  

The edging can be tatted in one pass without cutting. However, I started afresh, because I wanted to design the corner in this piece itself.

The pattern pdf will be uploaded to the Endrucks 1920 Project here, though I will definitely inform here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/17LEVftXweztBIOWh4sL4BB7bX65ssoOsOn4oXIgCepY/view