Motif #9

I was using up some leftover size 10 Lizbeth thread in ecru. The edging pattern is from the book Tatting - Basic Patterns by Rosemarie Peel, page 18.

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Motif #8

I finished this collar today. It took longer to finish than I expected. This is the collar pattern from the back of the Learn Needle Tatting by Barbara Foster.  I shuttle tatted the collar using Lizbeth size 20 thread in #117 Country Side.

I'm taking a crazy quilt class from the Fiber Art Shop in Lake City.  Here's the block without any embellishment on it.  So far I have only decorated 4 seams. The block is 16" and is the one I'm going to learn on. I'll probably make the squares 12"-14" when I go to make my crazy quilt.

When I get more embellishments on it, I'll post more photos.

Motif #7

It's taken me quite a bit to finish this little motif.  This is Medallion No. 128 from Corticelli's Lessons in Tatting, 1916, page 41.  I used Lizbeth #130 (Island Breeze) in size 20.

Although I could understand what it was I was supposed to do, I chose to first transcribe the pattern into modern notation.  I loaded up my shuttles and started tatting with a solid and a variegated. The solid was supposed to be the chains and the variegated the rings.  Somewhere along the line I switched the shuttles.  There was no way I could take out a couple rings and chains.

So, I started over and this time was very careful not to mix up the shuttles again.  Got all the way around on the last round and it didn't line up.  Talk about disappointment.  Meanwhile it's taken me 2 weeks to get this far.  Well, I went back to the original pattern and with magnifying glass in hand (for the photo), transcribed the pattern once  again.  Come to find out, I had made a mistake in my original transcription of the last round on where some of the joins went.  The pattern just says to join, it doesn't say WHERE to join.  You need the photo to figure that out.

This time I got out my size 7 tatting needle and with the new transcription plus a weekend, I got it done.

I'm also working on a collar. I'm at the beginning of the second row so it may take me a week or two to finish it. That will be Motif #8 when it's completed.

Thursday I took a Crazy Quilting class at the Fiber Art Store in Lake City.  I have the block pieced and it's now waiting to be embellished.  Photos to come at a later time. Next month we're going to learn how to embellish with beads.