Sicilian Circle by Mary Konior
I am working on the Sicilian Circle by Mary Konior from her book Tatting in Lace. At first, I thought it would be a straightforward pattern because I needed an easy one to work on after my failure with...
View ArticleUpdate on the Sicilian Circle, a pattern by Mary Konior
Completed Round 3 of this project from the book, Tatting in Lace by Mary Konior.I am not really happy with this mainly because of the long chains and large rings. Had to block/press it after this...
View ArticlePatchwork
I was supposed to organise the storage of my tatting and other sewing stuff but, as always there are many distractions. One of them is this mat. It surfaced among a stacked of tatting motifs and...
View ArticleAdding new Thread in Bare Thread Tatting
I had always shy away from bare thread tatting for two reasons;1. I always had problems with estimating the amount of bare thread space to leave at the start of each new ring; and2. How to add new...
View ArticleTis and Tat
I have been quiet on this blog though have been posting some on my Facebook page. I find it easier and faster to update my Facebook because I can do the on my phone compared to updating my blog, where...
View ArticleJan Stawasz Doily 1
I started this doily in May 2020, during the time when the virus was beginning to rage, for want of something to to to fill the time.There had been many ups and down for the duration of this...
View ArticleBlogger App on mobile, anyone using it?
I am interested to know if anyone is using the Blogger apps on mobile and updating their blogs through it.How do you find it?I want to be active on my blogger blog again; it has been sidelined by my...
View ArticleStill working on ideas on this motif
I restarted the motif in my previous post and added another round to it. Actually, not a full round; just repeated the centre motif. Now I am looking at ideas on how to fill the gaps between the...
View Article6-point doily
While waiting for a good name to come, 6-poibt doily is the working name for this. I am my worse critique. There are some things that I like and some not so about this doily.Generally, I am...
View ArticleTake 2.1
I started over with a solid colour, keeping to the first 3 rounds and adding a 4th. I tried a few variations on the 4th round and snipped each off before finally getting this. I hope this design stays....
View ArticleEmptying shuttles .... Not.
I am at a dead end with the yellow motif so I decided to do some easy motifs to empty shuttles. Then, I got some ideas with the blue-green motif and decided to expand on it. Instead of emptying...
View ArticleMore on the Nameless Project
I added a few more rows to the initial motif that I started just to empty shuttles (previous post)All the previous rows were tatted with shuttle-and-ball. I wanted to do something different and used...
View ArticleProject Abandoned
I abandoned the project that I started earlier, the one with the blue/green/tan thread.I decided that I didn't like it as much when I added the orange thread.I actually finished the round but the...
View ArticleKesturi
This is an output from the abandonment of the previous project, Indahloka.I needed something easy to close that project, so I repeated the centre of it and finished it with a series of trefoil...
View ArticleFlowers and Leaves
I decided to do another Ruth Scharf project after completing Kesturi. I have tatted a Ruth Scharf design a few years ago and thought I'd give a go with another design. I picked a pattern from her...
View ArticleEnd-of-shuttle Thread
The 6-rings flower is the most frequently used motif to finish off balance if thread in a shuttle at the end of a project. Sometimes, there are remnant balls of thread that may not be enough even for a...
View ArticleFlowers of Spring
Updates on my projects>First the Ruth Scharf project.Since the patterns/designs in the Ruth Scharf book does not have a name, I decided to call this project Flowers & Leaves. This is where I am...
View Article2017 Snowflake
First of all, I know the name is past-date. I was cleaning up my files in my laptop and realised that I have not shared this snowflake pattern in my free-patterns list. I think this was the time when...
View ArticleMedallion from the past
This is another past-date design.A medallion that I designed sometime in 2017. If it may look familiar this was used as a centre for the Harmony doily. which came later.
View ArticleRemnant Squares
The squares that I posted earlier in this post have grown slightly bigger.I am using remnants of size 20 thread for this. I don't often use size 20, preferring size 40 instead. There are a couple of...
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