Sometime in February I started working on "Cascade" from Blomqvist and Persson's Tatting Patterns and Designs. It has been finished for almost a month, but really needed blocking. I could tell it was going to be a torture block -- the doily needed to go on the rack. Here it is all stretched, and I do mean stretched. If you don't look close, it looks pretty good. A critical eye would notice the stressed bits, and those places where somebody couldn't seem to count. Oh, well. It actually is a very pretty pattern, but I have to wonder how it would look with fewer picots and larger rings right there in the center.
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It's absolutely gorgeous!!!!
I love it--the way the middle row kind of looks like flower buds. :)
I have a book from them in the original language and so far all there doilies I have made came out perfect and lay out flat I wonder if the translated one is messed up the count, because the one in the picture is not stretched and the center rings do look bigger than your picture. I also worked with a woman on another doily that struggled with the English version and I can't read this language in the book I have. food for thought.
Really beautiful.
I think it looks great. Nobody ever gets the tension just right on all those long chains, but I think yours looks pretty even.
Lovely mat and beautiful pattern, I have not seen this pattern before, I can see your problem with the long chains, it may not be perfect but it is a lovely piece of tatting
Margaret
Lovely! But a shame to have to block it so seriously. Perhaps you could rework the stitch count. Or find the original version?
It's outstanding!!!! :)
Sounds like a blocking nightmare, but the finished doily looks beautiful!
It looks nice after all that blocking. Maybe Madtatter80 is right and it wasn't translated accurately. The overall look is quite pleasing.
I'm not too certain about the translation being the problem. I think it's more likely I tat too tightly. Maybe I should try it again and see if I could RELAX the chains and make some of the picots a bit longer.
I am tatting the ice crystal doily from that book. How do you know where to connect ring 6 in the middle of the doily. The instructions are very vague. I have seen the ones you tatted and they are so pretty. Thanks.
Bett, I find the best way to do any of the piece from the Blomqvist and Persson book is to study the photographs very carefully. Then, as long as you work consistently the piece should come out okay.
I will do that. Thanks.
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