Hearts reach out
across ages and generations ,
across borders and boundaries ,
across arts and crafts,
across blogs and sites,
from cold snowflakes to warm hearts ....
hearts reach out !
A few common points :
- Click on title of each for link to the pattern source & on name of designer for their blog wherever applicable (all red words are active links). All are free patterns.
- I use fs/bs (RODS) tatting . I’ve listed it in the techniques, but it is optional.
- Since I knew that these patterns worked great in single colour, I decided to continue with my study in colours (very very limited colours to choose from – Madura Coats (Anchor), are you listening?).
- All these hearts are definitely going to be repeated over the years !
In no particular order ….
Techniques
: 2 shuttles, ANKARS (basic) or layered rings, graduated picots, floating ring.
Measurement
: 1½” x 1½” in Anchor size 40 Art 4054 (052 pink & 022 maroon)
"Officially” this is my first ANKARS project, even though it is pretty
basic. It Finally lay to rest a niggling doubt I had harboured, not having studied the technique properly. Yes, I had tatted it, without knowing that it could well be ANKARS ! ANKARS is an elaborate &
dense working of simple layered rings
. It is also the technique I used in my Curled Rings earrings. And all it takes a simple picot join !
Georgia Seitz will be walking us through this pattern in the
Online Tatting Class on Monday the 15th … Join in :-)
I added a tiny ring with SH2 after joining back to the first
ring. There was a bare, flattish space in my working that I thought needed
filling up. The tatting is all done from the frontside, not reverse work,
except for this additional ring.
Also 3 graduated picots in the centre of the chain to make
the tip a bit more prominent.
I used a picot gauge, as recommended, but found that it
causes my picots to twist & become unseemly, and the stitches to become
uneven ! It was back to eye-balling … this works better for me.
It ruffled a bit. Lay flat easily after dunking &
rolling. I didn't block each picot. Now, looking at the diagram, I realize that rings 21 & 23 are the
same size ! Didn’t appear so in the tatted model … good excuse to tat again :-)
Nicola Bowersox
Techniques
: 2 shuttles, CTM, dead end/blind start to chain, floating ring, RODS.
Msts : 1½”
x <1¼” in Red Heart size 20 (0289 bright/dark yellow)
I fell in love with this heart that moment britinpa shared
it on InTatters over a year ago. Simple, elegant outlining, & I love
floating curled chains !!!
I was a bit unsure how much to tension the chains, so left
them without snugging closely. But I definitely need to re-tat & experiment
a bit more. For one, I need to start the chain in RODS, for it to lie on the
left side as in original pattern. Also, Frivole had suggested using a SCMR instead of floating ring, which I want to apply as well. And check out Jane McLellan’s gorgeously colourful hearts she did a while back, inspiring me to
use a yellow.
Techniques
: 2 shuttles, thrown/floating rings, RODS.
Msts. 3”x
2¼” Anchor Size 40 Art 4054 (0131 blue & 0896 copper)
Arguably the most elegant heart pattern I’ve come across
& it works with all kinds of threads & colours/colourways ! I have yet
to come across a working that did not work :-) It is a Perfect Design !
Great diagram by Frivole – equally elegant with colour
coding !
Techniques
: 2 shuttles, CTM, CWJ, thrown/floating ring, twisted picot, SLT, RODS.
Msts : ¾”x
¾” in Anchor size 20 Art 4054 (020 red)
Love the simplicity of this pattern. 2 shuttles. To maintain
continuity of the chain outline, she uses the CWJ. Very quick to tat up & a
great way to empty the shuttles, (and to learn the CWJ if one is dithering).
The twisted picot in the little ring looks frayed & forked - probably the picot should've been just a tad longer keeping thickness of thread in mind.
Hearty Thanks to all designers
for sharing these wonderful heart patterns,
&
to all who have made it
possible through diagrams, classes, etc.
Have a hearty tatting weekend !
Motif #21 of III for 25 Motif Challenge
