Sunday, January 29, 2012

More Elegant Tatting Gems

Yup -- been tatting, just not posting.  The computer has been in use -- it's school science fair season.  Wanna know how to clean a penny?  Never mind.

I've done some more of the beautiful snowflakes from Jon Yusoff's book Elegant Tatting Gems. I'm still making them all in red and green DMC size 80 tatting thread, but they're no longer in order.  I goofed on "Nilam" (joined a picot that shouldn't have been joined) and had to remake it -- goofed that one too (all the internal picots are too long) and now am going to have to find more red thread before I can finish any more at all. *sigh* 
Not that all these others were perfect right out of the gate:
As you can see, I had some problems with Lazuardi.  First, I wanted all of the round one loose threads out of my way -- I kept catching them in the rings I was making on the second round.  Second, I didn't put in magic threads, so I sewed in the ends.  Rather, I attempted to sew in the ends.  What I really did was break the thread on the first round.  I started over, but used the wrong size picot gauge and the long picots were just too long.  The last one looks pretty good, though.  When I was doing Kencana I made too many picots on the first red chain, so I did the same for all the others and then joined the bottom ones.  It makes the snowflake a lot rounder.  I did that one over too, and like the less rounded look of the original pattern much better.  Not too many problems with the other four on this page, but I'm not telling how many times I unpicked some of the rings!

12 comments:

Fox said...

These are beautiful! Love how you have tatted them all in green and red. Looks so good.
Fox :lust )

Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane said...

They all look wonderful! I've started tatting them all again. I'm only on the first one. Why is there always so much to do?

Michelle said...

How lovely! I like both kencanas - understand not being happy if it's not the pattern, but it really is nice.
I love the red and green!w

tattrldy said...

They do look wonderful in red and green! I was given this book for Christmas but haven't yet tried any. I just made my first snowflake out of Jon's "Tatted Snowflake Collection". All of the patterns are very pretty.

Marilee Rockley said...

They all look gorgeous! I think my favorite is the Kencana (oops) one!

Gina said...

Colorwise, this is a lovely collection. Delima is very pretty. I wouldn't know about the mistakes if you hadn't pointed them out on the others.

Gine said...

WoW, gorgeous work =)

Sasmita said...

Wow! I m sure you must have decorated home beautifully with all your tatting creations. I have no idea about tatting & this can be so pretty too.

God's Kid said...

Those look so amazing and sure will brighten up the holiday!! :)

Margarets designer cards said...

These are beautiful I like your colours
Margaret

Quiltification said...

Absolutely stunning in Christmas colours.

Tatskool said...

They are just beautiful. I love the way you have done them all in the same colours, it really shows the different designs.