Roaring Race to Repeat

I need 10 more little elements and it is done. But, all remaining thread is wound on that bobbin. Bets?

Question: Do you join up the square edging before you sew it to the hankie, or do you sew it on and then attach the first and last element?

Peripheries

This is Hedgehogs, an edging by Mary Konior that I have been wanting to tat since I saw it here, on Frivole's blog. I have had the pattern photocopied, in the book and ready to go for years!

My rendition is in #80 Lizbeth and so looks a lot frillier than Frivole's for she used a thicker thread; I quite like hers. However, I am getting through the Lizbeth stash at a fair clip and this should use a lot of my green. Funnily enough, this lovely hankie came to me from Frivole!

The other edging, Mary Konior's Hoop-la, tatted with Lea's wonderful and amazing #50, is coming along nicely, and I should have enough thread...fingers crossed. You see how much less spindly this looks? I am beginning to enjoy a thicker thread. My skinny thread preference may just be coming to an end, as I use up my #80.

Starlight

Well, this was definitely fiddly galore! So many picots and chains and the thread while tatting tended to get stuck between chains. I won’t be tatting this again!

Shall I go on about how the thread twisted and snarled? How it broke and knotted? How it had slubs and got very thin after being twice the thickness? How my words burst forth with four-letter blasphemous vigour? Perhaps not...

Also, I am using up the dreaded Lizbeth thread and I do NOT like the colours in this motif one bit. But, I did persevere and finish and for that alone I am pleased. And the Lizbeth dwindles.

Lizbeth #80

Measures 7”

One of those free vintage online patterns 

Any Guesses?

Very fiddly, but I'm using up the Lizbeth!