Happy St. Patrick's Day!

A Bit Edgy and an Angeline Update

Pattern by Karey Solomon          Thread#40  Lizbeth Pattern          #90

This came out so much better than the last one!

The pattern is strange at the end, so I tatted the last few chains visually and the result was, for once, pretty good. LOVE this pattern. : ))

Now the edge issue.

This is the motif after I ripped out the crocheted edge, because I realized it did not look lovely and scalloped like the one on the book jacket.

See? The one in the lower righr-hand corner... 

So, I tried something... can anyone figure out what I did? 

My method did not fix the problem. In fact, I ruined the edging, as I also missed crocheting one picot and in a full blown fury I simply cut it off.  Occam's Razor - bah humbug. 

There is no scalloped edge.  It looks bad.  I have to tat the thing again.

This is the first one.  

I should have left well enough alone!

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Angeline Update

The book has visited 15 people, (the first being our Gina!) has crossed the pond, been down under and to lands of the East, and is now in Western USA with Karen! 

She says Angeline is faring well and looks to be in great condition.  Thank you, Everyone, for keeping her safe and unharmed.  

Now she will be entering the third year of travel, as the journey began on International Tatting Day, 2009 - April 1.

There are still 22 more stops along the way, so I will not be seeing the book for a while yet! 

Please, at this time, do not ask to be put on the list.  Thanks!

If you click on the Angeline picture, in the sidebar, you will be taken to the list, here, which I keep updated.

One last thing.  It would be great if everyone kept the book for no longer than three weeks, give or take a day or so.  That should keep things moving along a bit better...

Thanks again for your co-operation.

Egg-zactly!

#86

Exactly  - tatted with a crocheted edge! 

I loved this design and have been inspired by the eggs that JB has been tatting.

Using this book, I found the design I liked.  Of course it just had to have those very LONG picots:

I had to cut a picot gauge to the right size, as the gauge I use sometimes( not often) is the wrong one.

Until now, I did not understand the difference between the two. That dyslexia thing again.  I could read the words, but the concept eluded me...  Why could I not measure a picot with either gauge? Well, let me explain!


That will not work because the long strip will measure the exact length I need and the picot gauge that you use horizontally will only measure one half of the required height!

You have to double the measurement you choose in the horizontal method, for  the tatter has to consider BOTH sides of the picot to measure off the thread needed to tat the picot. Good Fox!

This gives you an ideas as to how small that motif is.  It looks larger in the top of the post, but all the eggs in this bppk if tatted in #40 will be quite small.

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Then, are you ready? Sigh.... more of these...

#87 

TA DA!!!

#88

And just one more thing...

#89

Design by Karey Solomon
Thread #40 Lizbeth.  

Roger, Copy That.

Or, more accurately, I copied Frivole's motif, designed by Roger aka Freedman, which is free online.  I wanted to see how it would look with the centres in another colour.

#85-100 Motif Challenge

Then, another of Karey Solomon's designs...
from 'Tatting Times Two.'
I really love this shape.

I played around with some ideas:

... and ended up attaching the motif to 

something S. sent me last year.  

I use it all the time on my desk as a paperweight, 

though I think its intended purpose is as a bookmark.