some new doilies

The cluny doily

I made this instead of other much more urgent things to do!

daisydoily

I made this doily with the cluny daisy. I did not yet block it. so the chains are a bit irregular.

Flowery square doily

Lorella

This is Lorella from "Tatted doilies"

Francesca

I thought this doily would come out well in 4 colors. My favorite colors are shades of green and violett, but this time I wanted a combination with red, which is a difficult combination, but then I liked it. While I was working the doily I noticed that it needs some slight modification in the stitch count of some rings and chains, so I will work another one with this modifications.

Cornelia

This is Cornelia from my book "Tatted doilies"

Graciella from "tatted doilies"

This is Graciella from my book "Tatted doilies"

free pattern doily

Surch for the pattern of this doily in this blog! You can find it clicking on TIAS! I worked it in 3 colors:

Some doilies

I'm aware of the fact that doilies are not much in nowadays, but I love the doily designs so much. Perhaps instead of putting the doilies under an object we could frame them and hang them on the wall. Here is a doily a designed and worked some years ago and had forgotten. I found it in my house in South Italy and I redid it, because I lost the pattern. The original white one is in thread size 50, the new colored one is in Lizbeth 20. When i worked it, I realized that the long chains did not come out well, so I made a new stitch count for a better hold. Unfortunately I'm not a master in stiffening the doilies, perhaps a class in that would help me. The white heart center had been published years ago in a danish magazin. I would like to show it to you. The last one is AMANDA from my book "Tatted doilies" in a colored version:

new doily

Hollidays are wonderful. I had some days free from children and grandchildren, and so I decided to design a new one round doily. Here it is. I'm redoing it with some corrections and an other colour combination.

Cluny triangle

This is a doily made of 6 triangles. The positive side of triangles is that they can be combined in many ways: you can make hexagons, stars, edgings, and so on. The negative side is that the pieces are small and you have at least two thread ends to hide. But perhaps it is worth the effort, what do you think?

Images from Pamela

I have returned from my summer holydays and will soon show you, what I'm trying to create. In summer, as you know, I had the exhibition in Matera, and after this in another small town of South Italy. This needed a lot of work. I have also learned a lot of better ways to expose the pieces to show them in their whole attractiveness.
Pamela Myers, better known as tatsakoolchallenge, send me theese pictures of some wonderful realisations of a snowflake, from which you can find a free pattern on my website.
And, she send me also the diagram with progression numbers for those of you who find it difficult to follow only a slice of diagram.


As she made the Eleanora doily almost twice, she send me also the diagram with progression numbers for this.

Modern tatting

Would you call this a "modern" tatting design? This is another hexagon designed for the japanese class. The hexagons combined together form 3 different triangles.

traditional tatting

Dear tatting friends,
While I was attending my exhibition in Matera, i looked in my little notebook and found this design I made in the airplane, when I travelled to Japan. This was one of the samples for the design class. So I worked it out and show you here the result. It fits also a bit Sharons challenge. What do you think?
The doily is composed of seven hexagons and did not fit in the scanner. I made it with size 20 thread in cream.

gift from Memé

Today I went to the post office to take a letter which arrived from Chile. It was a letter from Memé. I was excited to open it. What could be inside?
A long letter with so nice words for me. I'm happy that Memè has become an experienced tatting teacher and that she is spreading tatting in Chile. But there was also a big surprise: a wonderfull doily tatted for me by Memé. Thank you so very much, Memé!!! As I show the wonderful doily here, please tell me the source of the pattern for all who will love this doily like me.

Roundrobin doilies

I have neglegted my blog for a long time, very busy working (in the night and on weekends) on my new book. As I have nothing new to show at the moment, I thought to show you some images of roundrobins I partecipated many years ago. We made these togehter with Adelheid and Martina from Germany, Hedy from Svizerland and Eva from Sveden.
My book seems never to come to an end. Description text got far too long to make a nice book, as it is also in German, which is even longer, you imagine pages of description text? Now I tried some solutions, one was to invent new tatting notations, which could be comprehended without translation, but I gave them to Jane to try them out, and ... they didn't function. So now I'm redoing everythin cutting the text down and making detailed diagrams. But, the more I change, the more confusione comes in. The houshold is neglegted and I'm a bit unhappy. Outside a very cold wind blows and it is colder, than it was in the whole winter, though the trees are already blooming.
Happy tatting to all,
Iris

The heart doily

I made this doily for a magazin of the Danish editor Akacia, but they prefered another doily to this, because it was a bit similar to a doily I donated to the Danish tatting ring, which is the colored one above. Also these two doilies are one round doilies.

Pattern DELIA from "Tatted doilies"

These doilies have been made about two years ago from the ladies in Denmark, where I hold a tatting design class. The result of this class is the booklet "Tatting together square motifs". The pattern is a one round doily, which gives this color effect, when worked in two colors.

The Palmetto Learning doily

Two weeks have passed since I posted the last time, but my children have all been ill again. I hope this was the last flu and I will have a bit of better time with the grandchildren I'm babysitting.
But in the night I'm busy working on my book and testing my descriptions, finding tons of mistakes.
But I will not leave you without a picture, so I thought you would like to see the Palmetto doily, which I would call the Learning doily, because it is thought also for exercising a lot of techniques. Have a look at it.