veg patch game

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Game of the month in the Endrucks 1920 Project FB group this month is to tat either of two pumpkin patterns derived from pattern #25 - one is flat (Julie Myers) the other 3D (Daniella Galli). Obviously I would've liked to tat both, but went for the quicker option. 

Julie Myers' adaptation of E25 Extract Me Pumpkin pattern PDF for #VegPatchEndrucks Aug2024 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WKxGqijegF911nOvbmNjUuPVOQkHNZyF/view . Incidentally she derived this during our Sep 2022 game - ExtractMeEndrucks (as did Daniella!). Hmmm, one month shy of exactly two years!

My version reflects the type of pumpkin I enjoy eating during summer months - the green pumpkin (see next image). It is not fully ripe, has a mottled green skin and pale yellow pulp with a few scattered seeds. I visualized her pattern as a cross section of the whole pumpkin - the rings as white seeds, the pale yellow pulp, and a green skin. 

https://images.app.goo.gl/qpWbJWvj4BTVDEU5A

This is the only good image I could find which is identical to what I buy. Most images have an orangish pulp and green or brownish skin. Perhaps next season I'll remember to take a pic when I buy it.

I make the sabzi (kaddu/sitaphal) in summers till raw mango is available. Cut into pieces (one can keep the skin on or peel it), also dice some raw mango into small cubes, mix in spices, temper with whole fenugreek seeds and asafoetida, cover with plate and microwave for 3 minutes, stir and zap for another minute or so as required! It is such a quick-cooking dish and tastes wonderful with roti, puri, paratha, rice. 

I have a traumatic experience with the kaddu raita, though! Mummy once made it and it was horrible. But she insisted we finish it and I shudder ever since, despite enjoying various kinds of raw or cooked/grated veggies in beaten curd, LOL.

Wanted to use beads for seeds, and had even selected the pearls. Then decided to tat in 3 colours. 

NOTES - 

• In Gopi size 40 threads, the main body is 4.5cms high and 4.2 cms wide. 
• I used a single shuttle wound with the white thread. Yellow and green remained on their respective ball. 
• Started with false ctm - pulled out a short length of yellow, and finger-tatted the first chain, leaving a starter picot. Then continued with white shuttle, hiding & snipping off the extra yellow length.
• Tatted continuously, all clockwise. I didn't feel the need to turn work after every round. Especially since I was using the one shuttle and the colours positioned themselves as needed. Just left a very small picot at the start of each round to join back to.

• Treble tatting on the outermost round. While not strictly realistic since the actual peel is thin, but tds is fun and gives a nice finish and texture I hope. Would look good for a floral effect!
• I didn't count the tds, eye-balling the length of each segment by placing it along the corresponding chain segment below it. 
• TIP: After the required tds, I worked in 2ds, lock join, 1ds, p, 1ds. Now join simultaneously through both the hidden picot of last tds and the picot of new segment, and continue this as the 1st tds of new segment. Repeat at each join. This gives a nice, clean dip (You can see the difference on the join between 2nd and 3rd chains on the right side. The dip is not pronounced because I experimented without the picot, joining directly). Another advantage is that there is no 'gap' at the base of the join. I think it came off nicely.

• The stem encapsulates all the tails and since I had used leftover thread, I simply ended with the long tendril, without extending the stem further. 
• I had intended to add leaves, but one of our participants has already done a stellar job of it! Perhaps I will still tat a leaf or two from the same 2022 game - this would act as an incentive to share the E25 palm leaf pattern which inspired Elisabeth's Multifaceted leaves. See how the branches keep multiplying?!

I enjoyed tatting this piece despite the somewhat unorthodox colours which don't immediately identify it as a pumpkin, and hope that soon I'll get a chance to tat Daniela's 3D version, too. 

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UPDATE: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2024/08/lollygagging-or-not.html

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We do have a few other veggies in our Endrucksian garden patch as inspiration, including another 3D pumpkin (from E12) by Krystyna Mura. Check them out in the Foliage directory - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EIgPKHH9V2Dg4gDZNefVfSVNRZQC6LbSfhiaWA_s-G8/view  

Many many thanks to Julie and Daniela for graciously sharing their patterns 

and to Ninetta for hosting the game! 

barely in time

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This pattern was long since completed and waiting to be blogged on the 14th of Jan when we celebrate the entry of the sun in Capricorn. generically called Uttarayan (movement towards the northern hemisphere), a harbinger of spring and summer. A pan-Indian festival with numerous regional names and slightly different ways of celebrating. 

unblocked motif

It also indicates the beginning of the harvest season. Diversity apart, sesame or til and jaggery or gur are the two common ingredients throughout, though the resulting sweet is prepared differently in different regions, but distributed around. It is only in Punjab, where a bonfire is lit to celebrate 'lohri', that corn, too, is popped and distributed. This is why I was waiting to share the pattern. This year both 14th and 15th were celebrated, hence I'm really not that late, LOL.

pinned picots

You might remember the range of design possibilities of one motif from Endrucks' pattern #15 shared here - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-power-of-15.html

uncut picots

This time it is another doodle called E15 Ear of Maize, which with minimal changes can become a lavender sprig, any other inflorescence, wheat or other cereal spikelet, or even a feather. Perhaps you can come up with another idea?

snipped and trimmed picots

I have used 3 colours, but only one shuttle throughout. And you don't even need to hide the tails of the husk and stem! By force of habit, I forgot to do it in both models and hid most tails. Just leave ample lengths at the start and finish and trim later.

Hope you like this and enjoy tatting it. 

E15 Ear of Maize pattern pdf :  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GEms2X1Xmk1YHwrDz_3F7FiDLgIVpmz-/view

second motif

The motif actually jumped out when I saw Paola Emilia Rotuletti's E15 Star pattern worked in shades of yellow by other tatters!  

Add findings and we could have a pair of earrings or pendant? Perhaps even add beads to the kernels?

Related posts -

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-power-of-15.html

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2023/12/lets-flourish.html

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2023/12/lighting-up.html

https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2024/01/unlimited.html

pickme roundup 3

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 And this is the final batch from our #pickmeEndrucks Feb2023 event! At least for now. Because motifs are allowed to trickle in whenever they wish to! Enjoy the visual delight of the first two batches here - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2023/04/pickme-roundup1.html and here - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2023/04/pickme-roundup-2.html

15. Paola Emilia Rotuletti - is always a prolific participant with beautiful tatting to share.

Garden Cosmos (E12) & Life is Bliss butterfly (E32) 

Krystyna's Butterfly (E12)

Pretty Me Butterfly (E3)

Grazia Butterfly (E16)

16. Roberta Porati - cheerful display!

Happy Hands Butterfly (E1) & Happy Hands Shamrock (E1)

17. Ruth Palsson - made this linked pair of hearts as an engagement gift!

Eye Spy Hearts - linked (E3)

Eye Spy Heart (E3)

18. Sally Biggers - Adapted Krystyna's Garden Cosmos into a 3D version with beads and also shared the pattern! 

3D Garden Cosmos (E12)

19. Silvana Buonvino - another prolific tatter and participant!

Calmful Heart (E32)

Pretty Me Butterfly (E3) & Calmful Heart (E32)

Happy Hands Shamrock (E1)

Pretty Me Butterflies (E3)

Happy Hands Butterfly (E1)

19. Stella Marina - hearts around a butterfly!

Happy Hands Hearts (E1), Pretty Me Butterfly (E3),
Calmful Hearts (E32), Eye Spy Hearts #1 (E37) 

20. Vani Kattoju - Unfortunately alphabetical arrangement means Vani comes in last, but not least.

Pretty Me Heart (E3), Grazia Butterfly (E16),
Life is Bliss Butterfly (E32) 

Hope you enjoyed this collection of beauty. You might get to see some of these motifs arranged in our next game - #giftmeEndrucks March2023. We took a break in April and hence our Feb and March events continue into April.

Even if you are not on Facebook, you can join us any time - leave a comment here or email me. After you show us a pic of your first Endrucks' motif, we would love to send you a gift!

Many many thanks to all our participants for their lovely motifs - keep them coming 

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!