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Monday, 17 August 2026

help please

 The DAL 2026 challenge is progressing nicely with 13 participants already sending in their start and/or finished models and a commitment from two others. Some have made/are making multiple versions and/or multiple rounds!!! Some have designed for the first time, but looking at their models, you wouldn't ever guess that! It is so exciting and inspiring. 

Since my blog has been silent for a couple of weeks, here's a quick write-up where I need your help.

This is an onion ring motif I created using Anne Fairchild's Skylark Join which works well to join both chains as well as true rings to a picot that lies below the current work. It is an old join (the Lark's Head Join) with a new function or application.

So here's where I'd like your suggestions -
  1. Should I add another round around the rings?  My intention was to add a chain round that dips in to resemble petals. What do you think?
  2. What should I name this motif? I am drawing a complete blank there.


I have been enjoying some tatting time and have taken stepwise pics for several of the projects, including the join and motif above. Many are for 'new' techniques. Some day I hope to upload them all.

Hope to hear from you, after which I will prepare a proper post with pattern, links, etc. ....

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9 comments:

  1. Jane McLellan17 August 2026 at 13:35

    Yes, I think you should have another round, it looks incomplete like this. Interesting, but more like an experiment than a motif. Lily pad motif? That's what it makes me think of!

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    1. muskaan17 August 2026 at 17:56

      I Love the name you suggested!!! And perhaps a round in green will strengthen that illusion further. Thanks so much, Jane 🥬🥬🥬

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  2. Anonymous18 August 2026 at 10:58

    I think it looks great!! I was thinking Sweet Onion Rings, but whatever you come up with is great!! :)
    ~Sue(Tatting Lace in Grace)

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    1. muskaan18 August 2026 at 11:14

      Thanks, Sue 💕 I've had some good suggestions in FB, too, and am now oscillating between two main suggestions and will choose a name accordingly.

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  3. Anonymous18 August 2026 at 19:35

    I would add another round. To me it looks like it is missing something. Maybe a nice chain round connecting to each point.

    MP

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    1. muskaan19 August 2026 at 23:52

      Yes, it is what I had in mind when I wrote about chains in the post, MP. Thank you so much for your suggestion and welcome to my blog 💕

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  4. Marilee Rockley19 August 2026 at 06:41

    Maybe a chain that joins to the tip of the onion ring and then dips down between the onion rings, leaving a picot near the end. A small ring or Josephine ring could be made, then the chain could climb back up, joining to the picot of the previous chain and join to the tip of next onion ring, and so on.

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    1. Anonymous19 August 2026 at 22:01

      I was thinking similar.

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    2. muskaan19 August 2026 at 23:15

      That is exactly what I had in mind, Marilee (without the rings, though) and Jane's suggestion of Lily Pad Motif fit the bill perfectly ... IF I can get the proportions right 😁 However, there is another set of ideas suggested in FB which I also want to try. Let's see. Thanks for your input 😍

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