The Boss Likes "The Lello" In The Middle...

 #23 Motif Challenge

Another new tatting technique learned! This one concerns adding a thrown-off ring from a chain mimicking a picot.  For the longest while I could not figure out what I was supposed to do and started (twice) using a mock picot, though I knew from the photo that this was ENTIRELY WRONG!

Ends up your are supposed to just leave a bit of thread at both ends of the ring!  So simple and yet  it so eluded me.

There are wonderful patterns - all in diagram form -  in this book, and very good photographs of all of them, which is most helpful. 

Now, in the mail from yesterday...

Timeless Tatting

#22 Motif Challenge

Yarnplayer's "Celery" HDT . and Milford #40

I am beguiled by the old patterns. Suddenly, I am truly smitten.  Perhaps, once one begins to understand the way they are written, it is just a natural progression to trying them out and succumbing to their charm!  Whatever.  I like them a lot!

That is not to say that they don't drive me right up the wall.  This one was awful for me to tat - just dreadful.  I just could not get it right. Worth it in the long run, but I cannot believe how women tatted yards and yards of this stuff...  How did they do it?  This one took HOURS, and this is all I have to show for all that time.

By the way, it occurred to me this afternoon, that a 'glass mat' is a small mat to put under a glass!  Is this correct?  I have wondered for a long time why it was called a glass mat, and I am so dyslexic and literal, that sometimes the oddest things elude me!  Set me straight, someone!

P.S.  This pattern looks like a light switch cover!

Very Nearly Vintage

I found this little motif to be very pleasing, an easy tat and a nice change of pace.  It is small - just over two inches, tatted in #20, Yarnplayer's "Celery.," and  #40 Milford, green ( thanks to TypsTatting!).

#21 Motif Challenge

It came from this old book (1960's, I think).

Two Firsts!

Can you believe it?  This is my first attempt at Iris Niebach's, "Fiordaliso!"  Plus, this is the first time I have ever tatted it!  I am speechless - for once....

 #20 Motif Challenge

   

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