happy Endrucks 3

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 Continuing from part 2 (https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2023/09/happy-endrucks-2.html), this is the final batch of pics. All tatted solely by Krystyna Mura, and derived from just one doily pattern #31 of Endrucks' ‘Die Schiffchen-Spitzen’, 1920. And if you were amazed by the first two batches, be wowed by the following! 

Link to the pdf - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lcQrl0f6PdLYApe4YVM2ZVorLsHToAm1/view and part 1 - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2023/09/happy-endrucks-1.html

YOUNG  EINSTEIN

I for one could never in my wildest dreams imagine this! Would somebody be inspired to tat the iconic older Einstein, too, LOL?!

 

STRONGMAN

And flipped over, we have this! Tatted optical illusion.

DOG  ROSE

One more version in pale lilac tints is in the pdf.

POPPY

Krystyna had derived a 3D poppy from pattern #12 as well. (https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2022/04/show-stopper-or-show-topper.html)

PURPLE  DHALIA

There are more models in different colours in the pdf - Bright Pink and Sea Shell Dahlias.

RED  LILA  BUTTERFLY

PURPLE  STONE  BUTTERFLY

Both butterflies have one more version each with minor variations.

BUTTERFLY  BROOCH AND EARRINGS

GOLD  MOTH

BEETLE

SCARLET  DRAGONFLY

WISE  OLD  OWL

I especially like the horned ears ;-D

3D  MOUSE

Didn't expect this, did you?!

Ninetta and I cannot thank Krystyna enough for her wonderful and beyond-imagination work; way beyond what she volunteered for and what was expected!

Many many many thanks, Krystyna! You have gifted us a plethora of ideas and patterns. Frau Endrucks would definitely have been amused and amazed. 

calm after the storm

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 Let's say the storm has settled and I am at peace. Enough people in the tatting community now know the 3 sides of the story and hopefully it will dissuade the person from spreading falsehoods. I have no desire to bring an excellent and fair administrator into the eye of that storm, hence have removed the entire post, not merely the screenshots. 

I want to take this opportunity to thank all my well-wishers and friends who either left comments or spoke with me privately, in full support. I am trying to respond to each. You have restored my temporarily faltering faith in the goodness of the tatting community 🧡💗🧡

Now, after many long weeks of extreme cold and no sun, we are basking in the warm sunshine these last few days (and forecast for the next 7 days is similar). These are a few pics I took this morning.

Ajwain ('bishop's weed'). When we bought it a couple of months back, the leaves were very tiny and clustered in the center. Now they are proliferating and enlarging at a rapid pace. And the aroma that wafts out by simply ruffling the leaves is something exotic and calming. 

All attempts to grow it over the years had failed. 

Ficus - the new leaves it sprouted a month back are already quite big, though still retaining some sap green colour.

Lemon tree - this was my hubby's ardent wish because of the aromatic leaves. Lo and behold, the flower buds are already in sight!

From a slightly different angle. This plant, too, has grown splendidly during the cold months, almost doubling in length. 

The reason is the glasshouse effect since we glassed over the entire balcony to avoid pollution and lizards.

Now is this a moth or a butterfly? It was absolutely static for the longest time (hence I veer toward moth). This is as close to the vibrant rust shade and scales as could be captured. 

The moth had landed a couple of days back and was resting on the lower shaded side of the window frame. It was barely 1 to 1.5 cms and the photos are heavily cropped.

At one time I used to be the 'gardener' of the house. It included watering, aerating, manuring, propagating, pruning. This time all watering duties are delegated to hubby. My role is to make sure the pots are rotated every week, 10 days to receive sunlight distributed to each side alternately. We are fortunate to find this excellent plant seller and have decided to call him every few months to manure and buy any new plant we might want. He's already made one such trip.

Now to see how these plants fair during the coming summer months. Hoping for the best...

moth in a choir

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What's a moth doing in a choir of angels, you ask?! Tatting is full of surprises … read on.

We’ve all come across this beautiful angel by wiki on pinterest. Teresa recently made many and shared the pattern. One of my friends asked me about recreating the effect of the central joins which led me tat it up.

Dimensions : 5cms wide x 3½cms tall in size 20 Red Heart

It is a very clever pattern using basic techniques and a long picot for the halo (top right inset) The first ring has a longish picot, too, for linking later chains. The head is a mock ring – simple chain linked on either side with a lock join.

Not wishing to continue with this thick thread, yet not wanting to throw away the piece, I cut & tied, then whip stitched back to the ‘neck’ where I curled the head back from the front, and secured it. Then snipped off the long picot to look like antennae. Kind of cute, eh? So That’s how this angel became a moth.

I started over in white Anchor size 40 and the finished angel is 2½cms wide x 4cms tall. Unhappy with my block tatting!

Techniques : ring, chain, lock join, central picot, long picot, block tatting, decorative picots.

TIP : It can be worked with one shuttle and ball, ctm, and for block tatting I worked from the front only, by resorting to direct tatting.
Wiki has some really cute tatted doodles on her blog.

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An angel needs company, so I started on Ruth Perry’s new angel pattern. 

Again, my tatting leaves much to be desired. The size of joining picots is important here.

In Anchor size 40, it is 2½ inches wide and tall.

The head uses padded double stitch (pds or BDS or DDS), and a long picot is twisted for halo. Split rings and chains with decorative picots are used to tat the wings and body in one go.

The skirt of simple rings and chains is worked and joined on the go.

I like the lacy fulsomeness of this pattern! 

Note: One 7ds segment for the wing center (SR) is missing in the instructions.

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Two’s company, but three’s a choir! Loved the angel earrings Bernice shared here. It is such an elegant pattern by Sezione Hobbystica and can be found here.

In Anchor size 40, it measures approx. 4¼ cms x 4½ cms

I scrolled through her site and found a great drawing app for tatting !!! Played with it a bit on my tablet - fairly easy and straightforward. But it opens only in Chrome.

Many thanks to the designers for sharing their beautiful patterns

Related posts

Eleonore's Angel with pattern pdf 

Eleonore's Li'l Angel with pattern pdf

Other angels I've tatted

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who, when, where

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... those are the questions ...

(pictures taken from 0640 to 1717 hrs)

April 4th, in the early morning, as I opened the French doors to welcome the new day, 

I noticed this 'bump' ....

Who is this little fellow, wrapped in a camouflage leaf toga ?

Is it a caterpillar or ...?

 Are the eyes peering out through the slit mask ?

And see the 'veins'/striations on the 'toga' - similar to the Curry leaves.
And within 5 hours, the twig had become barren!

 What a rolled leaf backside view! 
Err, don't start getting naughty ideas (it's too small) ;-P

Turns out he 'masked head' is a late April Fools prank .... 

the small brown fuzzy head is under that broad slit mask! 

I saw it turning twice – once at noon and again in the evening, 

but could not capture it in time.

 Here the head is a bit more visible - 
that brown nub peeping out from under 'helmet'.

Notice how barren that same twig has become (leaves from nearby twigs were 

also devoured through the day, though not seen here).
Interestingly during the larval stage, half-eaten leaves give away their presence.
But now, the Entire Leaf disappears!

The last pic was taken in the evening - after 5pm. At 8pm, we went to see how it was - whether it had woven itself into a cocoon or was ready to open it's wings... Huh, it had disappeared completely !!!

Had the green 'leaf' wings opened up and let the moth/butterfly take to the air in such a short span? No bird came to peck it away - I'm sure of it.

When I tried a Google Images search it said this was a lizard. Ughhh! 

So help me answer the question(s). 
What or who is this? At what stage?
Where did it go?
Could it have opened it's wings at night?

I must confess that I should know the answer, having a Masters in Zoology, but well, tatting has devoured what little brain I had ;-P I'm still charmed and amazed - Adaptation, especially morphological, has been a particularly favourite subject in Ecology. 

Spring is the best - new life everywhere ! 

UPDATE : Thanks to the enthusiastic response, the questions are answered. It is a Common Mormon Butterfly caterpillar - 5th instar stage, ready to pupate. Here is an excellent article with pics of each stage . 
There are usually only 2 types of butterflies that visit our balcony - this large black beauty and the smaller yellow ones. I should've started my search from there! But blogging makes you lazy - it's easier to ask and wait for answers ;-P
Now let's wait and see if the butterfly emerges ....