Clunies Again and Maybe Dragons

Bitten once again by the cluny bug, I played around a bit, as always inspired by Elizadusud.  Her site is like no other!   I am mystified as to the order that one tats these things and how to position them the way I want them.  Elizadusud  has great pics, but I cannnot translate her instructions. Here is my meager offering:

Thus motivated, I tatted some simple motifs from
Kaye Judt's, Motifs for Marie.  

 

#12, 13 & 14 Motif Challenge

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Today, while looking at the purple Mary Konior, Sweethearts piece I tatted last week, a designer at work asked if I was selling my tatting! Very validating as you can well imagine.

Then, suddenly remembered the clunies, I plummeted abruptly from instant celebrity to common sense reality.

So, next project?  I am thinking Anne B's Chunese Dragon! I have been examining my threads to see what would sing as a mythical being.   

Anyone got any tips or suggestions about this pattern?  I welcome all.

Anon,

Stitches Defined?

Having a go with the purple Lizbeth again, as I have a heap of it on my shuttles, I am giving it a critical once over, once again.

To be sure, in tatting the Mary Konior chain pattern, 'Sweethearts', it  is definitely difficult, by the nature of the pattern itself, to get a defined stitch.

 

#11 Motif Challenge

Here, in this simpler motif, I can see the shape of each ds more clearly.  However, as I tatted it, the thread was just as twisty, and it separated when pulling through the picots.

Anon,

Done With Lizbeth

Party's over, folks.  

 #10 Motif Challenge

 Mary Konior's Sweethearts
(BTW - No rings. This entire piece is tatted CHAINS!)

The gorgeous purple #20 ball of Lizbeth caused hours of grief, as I re-tatted  and messed around with split and fraying thread. that twisted and turned till I my face was as purple as the thread itself!

Now, granted, I did have to re-tat, as this was the first attempt at this pattern, and true to form, I made a lot of errors.  However, the thread did not show the stitches well in the first instance, and then after they were picked apart a few times... don't ask!

Another thing.  When I placed the cut glass pitcher down on the dampened piece to press it, as I always do, I lowered it too heavily and heard a disturbing crunch:  the coup de grâce.  I had pulverized a bead.

This project tested my love of tatting!  Luckily there was no destination for this tatted piece or I might have been upset.

Strangely, I was frustrated, but in a different way, this time. My attitude was more accepting of the capriciousness of the art, how sometimes anything anwhere near perfection is so elusive and unattainable. I believe the Leps have helped me  immeasurably  with this.

Maebh consulted with The Cat and  decreed that the the result looks reasonable from a distance. 

I'll take her word for it.

Anon,

Tatting Gone Wrong #2

  Crushing disappointment followed overwhelming glee in the video store last evening. 

Needless to say, this  was not about tatting.

Anon,