Danish tatting day

The next saturday there was the danish Tatting Day, with a tatting workshop. You see how they are all concentrated and busy working.
I taught a piece from my last tatting book, called Rita.
In a big room downstairs there was a little exhibition of all the works of the members, and there were also sellers of thread and shuttles.


There I bought some balls of variegated Lisbeth thread size 20.
With this thread I worked the piece of the workshop, which you see here on the right.
Do you see the surprice? This piece Rita has split rings in the middle, and..., look at them, they are all in one color. And the stripes of the squares are all in different colors. After every split ring i have changed the shuttles with a simple knot (to chainge the colors, when I work with 2 different colors), and, 2nd surprise, the color did not change, all green on one side, all lila on the other.

Tatting course in Denmark

I have been invited by the danish tatting group to teach a tatting class. Inga Madsen, the chairman of the group, hosted me at her home with her usual warm and caring hospitality. Inga had organized all the things for the tatting class and the workshop, which was hold a week later at their general tatting meeting. At the class, which you can see at the picture above, we are working at a doily, and you see also that tatting ladies like the colour purple for dressing. The doily we made, is a doily I designed for the Palmetto tatters day in 2007, when the theme was Flowergarden. It is a doily with a lot of techniques in, a type of techniques exercising doily. Lene Bjorn worked the whole doily twice, once in two colours and once in 4 colours, as you can see here under.
Inga and I have also worked toghether at the last things for the book we are prepairing together and which is now at a good point. We are both very satisfied about the result.
I will show you further pictures the next days!

flowers on the t-shirt

Today, instead of cleaning and tidying up my appartment, which is in a desperate state, I played around, tatting, surfing in the internet, playing the piano and the guitar. But fortunately time was not wasted totally, because my brain cell no.3 gave me an idea. I played around with pattern Stella of my new book "Fantasia 3". First I tried to make a necklace, but putting the bead in the middle of this flower was too time consuming and I liked more the long picots I put between the ds of the middle ring. Then I thought is would be nice on a t-shirt, but it rounded too much, so I cut open the joining on the second petal and now I can round it the way I like. Perhaps I will buy some t-shirts for the children and put it on, I'm sure the girls will like it.

insertion for my DSL

I had a lot of 10 thread, but no use for it. So I decided to give it to my sister in law Delia, because she would tat something big. At the time my mother in law was young, there were woman who had a loom in their home to weave bedlinen. But the poorer ones had a smaller loom to weave towels. These poorer ones weaved also bedlinens and sewed the stripes together with invisible stitches. Today you can find those stripes for little money and they are used to make bedspreads inserting lace stripes in between the woven stripes. This is what my sister in law wanted to do. So I suggested her a wonderful square from Teiko Fujito's book, because the design has to be resistant and close. But my DSL did not like it, too many joinings, she said. So we went trough all my designs and all my book, but this was too simple and that was too difficult. She wanted something to be made continuously in rows, and not in pieces to put together. Now I spent some days on the seeside with 3 of my grandchildren and designed this pattern, which I hope she will like! This is only the sample, with corrections done on the way and to be perfectionated.

orange and green

The white pearl beads exalt every other color, I tried out also other colors, but they have not the same beautiful effect. Only between the white ones the others are nice. Though the earring is big, with lots of beads, it is not heavy at the ear.
Now I have to work the second of the pair.

lilac and orange

I'm trying out some other color combination, which is always very difficult with some waste of precious thread.
I found that lilac and orange match pleasantly.
This earring has no difficult techniques, except perhaps the maltese ring, which somebody of you does not know. Perhaps a challenge would be to work some patterns with maltese technique to show.
The only bad thing for me, who I'm a very lazy woman, is that there are 6 threadends to hide at the end of the work, as I leave no knots around, which could open.

earrings for Azzurra 2

This is one earring of the second pair of earrings I designed for my friend Azzurra, with the beads she gave me.
I worked very hard to find a satisfying solution for the read irregular coral beads.
But I think she will like this!
Some technical information: As we are working with thread and this is not stiff, I needed some technique to make it stay. So I used a bit thicker wire, which I took double around, and knottet around it to create the inner ring of the outer round. So this holds good.
The inner ring is surrounded by a maltese ring, whereby the inner beads are the center ring of the maltese ring. This holds good.
The upper piece with the earring finding is also partially worked on the same wire, but not taken double. Here the wire goes from the side through the red beads and the to the other side.