pickme roundup1

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Our game of the month for February was to pick and tat motifs from a collected assortment commemorating spring. These included hearts (it was Feb after all), flowers, butterflies, and foliage, all derived from Endrucks' patterns. We created categorised Directories for each to make patterns and ideas easy to access (more about the Directories and links after I finish the roundup). I have been posting my own choices with some background.  

Actually the motifs could be used as standalone, or could be gathered together for the March game of the month .... more about that later. Since links to the directories will be shared eventually, I am not sharing any direct pdf links, only the models tatted by our lovely members. Let the suspense build up a bit before I lead you to the respective patterns.

#pickmeEndrucks Feb2023 -- Endrucks 1920 Project FB group

[E3, E1, E42, etc., refers to the original pattern from which each motif was derived or adapted.]

1. Adriana Tomanin - 

Happy Hands Butterflies (E1)

2. Antonia Lai - extracted both a butterfly and a heart from E32 and shared the pattern with us.

stages of development

Life is Bliss Butterfly (E32)

Calmful Heart (E32)

Flying Fox and Foliage (E3)

3. Beata Sumowska - 

Valentine's Butterfly (E32)

Reflections Snowflake (E17), Pretty Me Butterfly (E3), Foliage (E14)

4. Bonnie Swank -

Beaded, needle-tatted version of Life is Bliss Butterfly (E32)

 

5. Brookie Heightsmen -

Happy Hands Hearts as butterfly (E1)

Calmful Heart as butterfly (E32), Foliage (E8), Fence (E27)

6. Carol Lee Parry - blogged the heart and butterfly motifs here - https://lelia-stitchesoflife.blogspot.com/2023/02/endrucks-1920-project-32-adaptation.html and here - https://lelia-stitchesoflife.blogspot.com/2023/02/endrucks-1920-project.html 

Calmful Heart (E32)

Life is Bliss butterfly (E32)

7. Debra Fitchen Cox -

Life is Bliss butterfly (E32)

Garden Cosmos (E12)

Grazia butterfly (E16)

This is the first installment and we have two more batches to show! Most members have tatted more than one motif and many have incorporated their own tweaks. 

to be continued ....

Many thanks for colouring our Spring with such beauty!

why tatting is thriving

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...and will continue to do so long into the future. The reason lies in the huge generosity and willingness of tatters to share their knowledge, skills, experiments, tips, and tricks… be it through text, video, live chat, classes, etc. And the icing on the cake is that most of this is for free!

rainbow - May 31, 2020

I share, with utmost gratitude, shining examples of such selflessness and enthusiasm….

Remember the recent QnA segment on how to attach tatted lace to handkerchiefs?

( https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/05/lace-to-fabric-qna.html )

tatted edging and corner for handkerchief

Kathleen Minniti sent me her own pdfs to share with my followers! She had “prepared some handouts for a Shuttlebirds Annual Workshop class” back in 2018! ( https://sbspokane.wordpress.com )

Such detailed and clear images and instructions – helpful for all tatters! 

Without much ado, here are the links to the 2 pdfs :

Sewing Lace onto a Plain Hemmed Edge -https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EEN5p5RUt4hghcXgQervMzP8JzhSLJPG/view?usp=sharing 

Tatting Directly onto a Hem-Stitched Base -https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c3DslUUCd_YqgUo1awameQAZIJHJX9Me/view?usp=sharing

preparing to sew cornered edging to picoted edge hanky

And then Ninetta Caruso sent a link to her own post on this subject, which has her drawings as well as further links. And here’s what she said - “If you enlarge the picture at the end, you can see the various stages of the sewing at the border.”

https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2014/10/100-posts-wip-and-attach-tatting-to.html

tatted edging sewn to saree

And a few months back, Anita Barry played a magical card and on my request, Bonnie Swank prepared a wonderful video on how to change direction of curving chains in Needle Tatting !!!

Needle Tatted Changing Chain Curves : Convex and Concave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ9BRdZ2Zl8

My original pdf was in shuttle tatting obviously - 

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2019/09/changing-chain-curves.html

Here's part of what she wrote -

“I hope the video is helpful to you, I really enjoyed finding six ways to tat one chain and the reverse/unflipped method was my favorite! I contacted Anita several times and we had fun conversations on the differences between needle and shuttle tatted changing chain curves and thread orientation when reversing!  I actually made the video 5 times! Once I tatted the whole thing and then realized the camera did not turn on, once I taped the entire thing upside down and twice the video cut off on me after 30 minutes! So I have lots of chain segments, I'm thinking of putting them together to make flowers.”

Her Facebook page is Straight-Laced Tatting and she has another needle tatting technique for making floating rings!

I cannot find words to thank all my dear friends in the tatting world who come together share bit by bit so that the beauty of Tatting will thrive for generations and centuries. They are all building on the foundations laid by our previous generations!

With utmost gratitude and thanks …

Patterns/Posts : 

Jane McLellan's Leaf braid edging for hanky and saree ; Blossoms corner for hanky - 

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2018/09/gifts-with-tatting.html

split colour edging for hanky - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2016/06/under-pinning.html

changing chain curves

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The outermost round of Rosette Enchained (shown in previous post) pattern is a chain where the middle segment faces inwards. Since the side segments face outwards, we can consider them as convex, and this middle one as concave.

Please note that convex/concave is relative to a specific design and reference point in case of tatting. For instance this example by Sabina Carden-Madden.

Changing Chain Curves : Convex and Concave

click here to download in pdf format

There are various ways of accomplishing this change in curve, and I wanted to experiment with each to compare the effect. It’s always good to have a menu of options, allowing the tatter to choose based on project or skill specifications.

• The first 4 methods can be done while working with a ball and single shuttle, but the 5^th one needs 2 shuttles.
• Some create a sharper point at the changeover.
• Some methods create a mono-colour chain, or the main shuttle colour can show up in the concave segment.
• For directional (fs/bs) tatting, the concave segment is usually tatted backside.

Do you have any other method to share? I would love to hear it.

IDEAS : Any of these methods can be used to create a long undulating chain. One can use it as a bookmark tail. Or each long chain can be linked to previous one to create a broader lace or latticed/reticulate fabric. Add beads and picots for a wonderful effect.

UPDATE: Bonnie Swank has demonstrated these options in Needle Tatting - video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ9BRdZ2Zl8 .

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