the haze is lifting almost

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January
As we sat down to breakfast one cold winter morning, this ghostly vision emerged! Spooky!!! 

Now these pics were taken in mid-Jan. In our over 20 years here, I have Never seen such a layer of haze in the morning!!! The sun rays through the French doors may show up some suspended dust particles, but never this.

After the initial pic (from top left clockwise), I moved the air a bit & this Casper disappeared for a few seconds only to regroup into almost exactly the same configuration! We thought it might be a dust haze. But that wouldn’t coalesce again in this manner, would it?

It was almost like the clouds on a high mountain – you can walk through them! We had encountered such great clouds in Munnar - ephemeral. They would enter into the room and disappear again all within seconds.

February

And a time-lapse collage of the Super Blue Blood Moon on the evening of Feb 1^st, for a half hour between 1927 to 2006 hrs. 

Taken from our balcony with the smart phone, hence the haziness - no close-ups or sharpness. This is the best we could manage. We couldn’t capture the eclipse in these pics either. 

The black spot in the moon is because of my cut/paste, though. The collage below shows the very first & last pics during that half hour... 

Once while flying to Chennai, we saw a HUGE Orange moon from the aircraft. It was rising and seemed so very close & on fire! One could reach out and touch it, almost. An unforgettable sight.

March

Now for the haze in my eyes …. well almost lifting.

The blur in my peripheral vision is moving further outwards as my eyes adjust to the new spectacles. It still takes me time to focus on the middle range & I cannot encompass the wide screen of a 17” computer screen. But the strain & ache is decreasing daily. Perhaps another week, but I will try to blog a bit & also fulfill some of my commitments. Thank you for your lovely wishes!

I love tatting 3D

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This month’s task was laid out by Renata – my favourite kind of tatting – 3D !!! She has listed some very inspiring projects and I wanted to tat them all !!! Participants have already sent in quite a few completed projects. My apologies for not being able to comment on each blog. I’ll wait to catch up in the round-up.

As soon as I read the task, my mind started building up ideas – it was getting difficult to choose! Time (the 4^thD?) always sprints many paces ahead of me. This month it went even faster ;-P 

I have ended up with a medley of past, but as yet unshared, projects.

I Love Tatting / Kocham frywolitke – February 2018

3-Dimension 

While rummaging for this star flower medallion (bottom right), I came across an old edging. It is actually the center of Renulek's 2014 Spring doily. After 7 rings, I switched direction and repeated thus getting 4 alternating segments (see collage below). At the time I was trying to create an edging but it went awry ;-P

3D Carnation

It coiled easily into a possible flower, though as in the one against black background. Intending to make that 'rose' shape, I needled green thread through all the picots. When pulling tight, I liked the carnation-style shape much better! Worked a 3-sepal calyx (tubular), then carried on down encapsulating the thick threads, with a spiral chain and added floating twisted picots for leaves. For the bottom pair I twisted 2 threads together, then hiding one again.

3D Lavender trial

Next is the overlapping onion rings trial. many of you may recognise my inspiration - a pin from ameba.jp on pinterest.

I think it came out okay, considering it the only trial I did. Need to make time to practice and make more.

3D Star Flower trial/prototype

Remember my overlapping split ring effect I shared here? This is a 5-sided medallion that emerged from that motif.

The later repeats have the right stitch count to show a balance between overlap and negative space. 

Obviously need to change the colours used. But I also want to try it with 2 thread sizes. Would a thinner thread show a better effect? This looks too bulky.

3D Kayak trials

This was a request from a kayaking enthusiast (some of you may be able to identify who ;-P). I started it in early 2015! 

Again, to create a 3D effect, I used overlapping split rings. Notice the single curled ring on the right ? And a twisted picot for the pointed end. I wanted to come back with a straight line to show depth, once the body was completed.
Thinking I had a good idea of the process, I started afresh with the tinted blue. This time I used 4 overlapping split rings for the broadest center and also flipped the overlapping SR. 
Unfortunately this is as far as it sailed ;-( Haven't had time to pick it up again.
I still think the overlapping SRs have quite a potential to create any geometric shape with faux Celtic effect.

Hope these will be accepted by the talented Renata & Justyna. I do love 3D tatting - all my early patterns are 3D freeform! 
And the book from from which this pic was taken .....

happy tatting everybody J

  

an undesired semi-break

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Hello dear readers & friends

My blog will take a per-forced break for some time.

There are loads of things ready to share or in process, but they will all have to wait.

I’ve had to change my spectacle lens and it may take at least a week to get used to certain activities. Newspaper reading and desktop work fall in that category. I can easily read on the tablet, so will keep abreast of my blog list, though commenting will take a backseat.

Haven’t yet picked up my shuttles to see if I can tat – keeping my fingers crossed….

Thank you for your patience and support Y

Hugs

muskaan J