Saturday, April 10, 2010

Dr. Threadmore's 'Earthy Rainbow'

24 Motif Challenge

I surprised myself while tatting this motif; I thought I would have a lot of trouble with it.  After all, it is one of Iris Niebach's, and I usually have a bit of a directional challenge with her patterns. However, this one was not too bad at all!  I'm all for progress in that realm!

Actually I did go the wrong way a number of times and had to ...what... retat; untat; frog; retrotat; tonk... what did we all have to say about that?  I'll stick to retat, a word that I do not think was even part of the vote (interesting post, here)!

The HDT is pretty to look at  - an interesting colourway -  and I would like to try it in a finer thread.

Krystle sent a big skein of this colourway in another thread; I will compare it to this one and report.  The next lot is not a regular tatting thread - more of a fine, three ply crochet cotton.

Now, I think I will try to replicate the necklace that Suneeti showed me that she made for her mom using beads and split rings....

P.S. For a better example of what this should look like, and what I aspire to, see IsDihara's blog!
Anon

8 comments:

  1. I love the color! Iris's patterns can be challenging, but they're so worth the effort!

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  2. Thanks, Diane!
    Looking at this again, I am definitely NOT pleased and will try it again!

    Where did I see this posted? Someone has done a great example of it and i forget who!
    Fox : )

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  3. Tatskool said:

    Is that the same motif that IsDihara did in Daffodil Dell trial 1?

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  4. Oh, how clever! You have little hearts in your background to go with the doily!

    I've printed the pattern out and will get to it one of these days!

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  5. Your Earthy Rainbow motif looks wonderful! And the Iris Niebach pattern is a fun one to tat. So you won't mind doing it again (and again). LOL!

    Thanks so much for the shout out to my blog.

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