Maebh ponders the 34 names to be entered in
a random number generator tomorrow morning...
This came out all right and was a lot of fun to tat. I think I will make a lot more! I would like to put a tail on the next ones, but am baffled as to how everybody twists those things. Opposite directions each colour, right? Is there a trick to it? It is a simple, not tatted, twisted tail I am talking about. Surely, it cannot be brain surgery! Anybody?
There are lots of patterns in Jon's book and I am eager to try more of them. Thanks, Jon!
Remember I was rattling on about new bsiness cards to promote tatting and - well, let's be honest - my blog?
I have been handing them out left right and centre at work, and decided to put one up in the shop with an example of tatting attached.
This is what I put on the mirror that is right by the entrance to the shop. My boss thought it was a fine idea! (The pile of little flower do-dads is there to obfuscate my personal data. They are NOT part of the card!)
Now I am worried that the motif will disappear. There it sat, languishing in a box in my cupboard, and then it finally had a great purpose and a true reason to BE. Now, here I am fretting that it will be stolen! (Oh no! Not the motif done in Tatskool's gorgeous 'Rainbow Bright' HDT!)
I can't win.
I can't win.
Ah, the challenges of displaying one's artful endeavours!
See you all tomorrow!
You-Know-Who
wishes you all
bonne chance!
Is Maebh consulting with the Buddha for tomorrow's drawing?
ReplyDeleteI am color crazy and I just love that awesome motif!!! My daughter saw it too and she loves it too! :)
ReplyDeleteI think your Motif it came out really well and I love the idea of your business cards.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous thread on your business card! I have trouble with tails too, so I stick to tassels on bookmarks - I'll be watching for a helpful reply on your blog!
ReplyDeleteA "twisted tail" makes me think of the way I used to make dog pull toys out of yarn. I don't know if this is what you mean...but:
ReplyDelete1-Loop the thread into an oval about 1/2 as thick as you want the tail to be and about 3 times longer.
2-Place one end of loop over something stationary, like a furniture knob, take the other end and start twisting (a pencil or dowel is really helpful).
3-Keep twisting until you can bring the twisting end to the stationary end and the rest of the thread wraps around itself (so it looks like a rope).
4-The ends can be secured with an overhand knot or use another piece of string to tie them together.
I hope I have described this well enough...but it may not be what you meant. I used to use synthetic yarn and make thick "ropes" for tug-of-wars. The really neat thing was that they could be put in the washer and drier when they got dirty (very, very often!).
If I want a tail, but not a tassle, I usually tat a chain and add a smaller motif to the end. I've been considering some other options. One is Judy in Greeley, CO, suggestion for a book thong with beads at the opposite end from the tatting. The other involves alternating colored sections of unflipped knots over a core thread. Is that called a Maltese chain?
ReplyDeleteHi Fox.
ReplyDeleteHaving a little trouble with my fingers tonight. As I near completion of my message to you...everything disappears...good thing I am not tatting right now...what would happen then?
Finally, you ask a question about which I actually know something...LOL! I am truly an embroiderer --tatting is 'new'-- but we embroiderers make twisted cording all the time!
I have really good instructions (in the form of a Word document) that describes how to make two- and three- colour cording, as well as instructions to make a type of twisted-cord fringe I made for the edges of a shawl.
I can email them to you, but how and where?
My email address is rlobirek(at)mts(dot)net.
Let me know if I can, for once, be of help to you...!
I like your new business cards, and I like the idea of your motif hanging off of it.
ReplyDeleteI hope Maebh has a wonderful time rummaging threw the 34 names to find a winner.
Have I told you yet, that I like your new header artwork, clunies no less, beautiful!
Hi Fox
ReplyDeleteWhen I make tales I do Josephine Chain (all stitches are just the first half of a ds or the last half) or Victorian Sets (ex. 10 first half stitches/then 10 last half of stitches) you can change the number but do make them the same!! Hope this works. Can not wait to see who wins!!!
Leanna, I tried to email you but it seems the address is not working! If you read this, please send me an email, (see my profile) and I will respond to yours. Thanks,
ReplyDeleteFox : )
Thanks, Tatfully Yours,
ReplyDeleteYes, these are terrific and I do use them often, throwing the shuttle from side to side, after about 5 half ds, but I am really trying to figure out the simple two-colour twisted thing!
Fox the Foxed : )
Stringy Dogs,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, but this is not the one I am after - too thick! I want two strands twisted tightly together, and not unravelling, not four.
Fox : )
Love the contrast of the royal blue beads on the white! Cords....Lily Morales showed us how to make this kind of cord with a gadget that I actually bought and forget how to use! I've also done it by hand though. Hope you got the instructions from Leanna. I was going to email her myself til you said the email didn't work. You could probably search either google or youtube also. I know it's two colors that are twisted tight and then allowed to twist upon each other falling into a natural spiral but I don't remember the lengths - and they are then doubled & quadrupled if I remember right.
ReplyDeleteJeepers the motif on your card looks GORGEOUS..but then I am biased....must make one for myself!
ReplyDeleteMaebh is soooh photogenic...she must have been to modelling academy! She seems to have friends in high places.
Tatskool, OHM My, I'm glad you noticed. : ))
ReplyDeleteFox ♥