Monday, May 14, 2012

Snow Star

...in Spring!
  
I love this!  It is from Patterns and Tatting Designs, by Blomqvist and Persson. Seems as I have overcome my fear and loathing of this book - at last.  Seems I am gloating a tiny bit as well...   

#15      Silk Zwicky thread in centre from Krystle
Pink #50 Altin Basak, #40 Lizbeth for the rest.

This gives an idea as to the size of the two patterns 
I have tatted from that book:

11 comments:

  1. Wow! This looks great! The colors balance out so beautifully. IF you want it to look perfectly perfect, blocking the chains with a quick steam (after pinning) would do the trick.

    Are these two tatted beauties roughly 10 centimeters in diameter? (10.2 cm = 4 in.)

    Well done!

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    1. Hi, Isdihara,

      More like 15 cm for the for the green and yellow one and 131/2 cm for this one.

      Fox : )

      p.s. Blocking sure works!

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  2. Gloat away! Love the color combination. The chains did not work out so well on this one: one of the eternally frustrating thing about tatting other people's patterns - you don't realize that the tension needs to be a little snugger until you are in the midst of the next element and the chains are buckling. If you were to do a retat, it might be fun to alter round 4 to really emphasize the swirl initiated by round two (pink): perhaps turn the rings on their side, and lengthen the chain by a couple of stitches. It it should look like bean sprouts.

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    1. Bean sprouts it is! Check out the next post! Thanks for your helpful comments.
      : )) Fox

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  3. Looks great! I like the way the colours make it look so modern.

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  4. Gorgeous!

    I love the Blomqvist book - the patterns are stunning.

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  5. Thanks for all the fantastic comments!

    I was so inspired that I fled to the iron and blocked it a bit and have re-posted it to show you the improvement! Nothing like honest positive re-inforcement to make a tatter stretch those digits a wee bit further. I love Tat-land!
    Fox : )

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