A long time back I had started
reading the Bible and finished the Old Testament. Then my eyes gave out and I
haven’t returned to it since. But one of my dear tatting friend recently suggested I
read the gospel of Luke if not the rest. I have yet to do it, but this is a
reminder.
This is the tweaked charmed cross pattern to
look more like a cross. A floating ring on either end extends the horizontal
bar, while additional rings and chains add length vertically.
Can’t say I’m happy – perhaps
changing the chain direction to face inwards at some places would make it a bit
better. But that is for some future day.
Worked in Lizbeth size 40. I now regret having bought only variegated and no solid colour in Lizbeth.
For
some reason I didn’t enjoy working with this at all. And as you can see, by the
second round I couldn’t be bothered to try to hide colour blips caused by the lock join.
Also, I didn’t snug the chain
stitches properly on the right side thus getting an asymmetrical outline
inside.
There was also plenty of
retrotatting to do. All in all not a happy experience.
The saving grace was the lock
chain tails. I’ve long admired and wanted to do those little charms along a
tail and this seemed like a good project to use in.
And in order to balance the width
of the cross with the slim tail, I worked a 2nd tail. Can’t have
enough of bookmark tails - read my argument for multiple tails here !
What truly charmed me was Denise’s
enthusiastic testing and working of the charmed cross pattern. She made little
tweaks to suit her taste. Notice the charms? And the Heart-shaped glass gem
in the center?! These are all meant as gifts for her church friends. She
tells me that since it will be close to Valentine’s when these will be gifted,
she used the heart and I guess the lovely pink shade.
Also warming my heart in this cold
are these cute maple leaf earrings (she added a strand of Rexanna to the hand-dyed colourway), and
appliqués Denise is tatting; the former
again as gifts. She has a great big heart for sure, always helping with a smile and spreading warmth J
And for the record, I now have a
finalized version of the charmed cross pendant to share soon.
cheers and
stay warm/cool
J
