some yewellery

I ridid some of the yewellery of my book "Just for fun", and I worked also some new ones: have a look at them

Earrings for my pupils

Dear tatting friends

It's really a long time since I have last tatted. Actually I'm teaching german in a private school in 8 different classes, so I have a lot to do.

In a fifth class my female pupils asked me to make them a pair of earrings like mine, so I promised them to work them in christmas hollidays.

Fortunately the girls are only 4, otherwise I would have to deny.

Here they are:

Now I tell you about the difficulties to work them.

First the most difficult and time consuming task is to find the matching colours. I look at all my dozens of bead colours and nothing seems matching to the thread. Three girls wanted violett, pink and white, one wanted orange. First attempts went bad, colours did not match and hours went away.

Second difficulty is to make the copy mirrored. In this pattern it is not so easy, though some of you talented people were able to mirror the more difficult version of these earring.

Third difficulty is to work slowly and precise, because I have to make a gift, so the work has to be the most perfect possible. This means, even and regular stitches, small joining picots, good tensione to make it stiff. Perfect, invisible and never opening hiding of thread ends.

Fourth difficulty is, that the earring tangles around the finding, so I inserted a piece of thin wire inside the ring of the finding and along the first chain. This holds the earring in perfect position.

For these 4 earrings I worked a lot of hours, but now I have finished and I'm satisfied.

I'm sure I will have to make other earrings for the girls of other classes!

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.

images of earrings

Marta from Poland has worked the earrings and she has made also a symmetrical piece. You can see them on her blog.


Karen has send me this nice picture of her version of the earrings on the vase.









And this is Johanna's version of the earrings
Those of you who have worked the earrings, please write me, you will recieve a surprise!

Katie and Carla

Carla made this doily out ot my book "Tatted doilies" and added another round from another doily in the book. She will soon publish it on her blog "Il chiacchierino della nonna".




Some of you have already made the earrings, and I'm so happy about this. Here is the picture Katie Verna sent me from her version of the earrings.

Difficulties of earring

Dear tattingfriends,
I'm so pleased that you all try to make the earring. Step 15 and 16 are difficult. But if you have problems, please send me a scan of both sides of your earring, tell me the number of the step where you had the difficulties and I will try to explain what went wrong.
When you arrive at Step 15, you are working on the back side. The ds of your light color ring show in the same direction of your previous dark chain with the bead. Without changing any direction take the middle ring of the center flower over and make first join there. The chain with the bead is on your left. Work the next ds, take the bead under your ring and join there, as you see on Step 16. Work the last 9 ds of first half ring and join to first picot of dark chain (Step 17), then work the ds of second half. Close and only now put your ring in the right position over the bead (Step 18).

Fourth steps of earring

Step 19: Work now the second ring in the same way as described at Step 4.


Step 20: Work the third ring 10+10, joining through the other rings to the picot of your underlying chain near the 6mm bead.




Step 21: Without reversing work a chain as described in Step 13. Join to last picot of center flower.
Now we have only to hide our thread ends on the back.






Et voila, our earring is ready!

Third steps of earring

Step 12: Without reversing your work change color with shoelace knot and make a chain of 12 ds. Join to last free picot on you dark chain near the 6mm bead.

Step 13: Change direction, change color with shoelace knot and work a chain of 3ds taking a seed bead from your working thread between: 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 b 3 (5 beads). Join to picot of last ring of dark center flower.

Step 14: Change color with shoelace knot and work a chain with a 6mm bead as described in Step 2



Step 15: Now comes the most difficult part! Start your ring with 7 ds. Look carefully on the image and join to picot on top of second leaf of dark center flower, leaving the dark chain with the bead behind.



Step 16: work other 4 ds and join to the 6mm bead on your chain.




Step 17: Work the next 9ds on your ring and join to first picot of the dark chain in the same way as described in Step 4.





Step 18: Work the last 20 ds of the ring and close. Put the ring in the right position on the underlying chain.

Tomorrow we will finish!

Second steps of earring

With the same thread start a second ring with 16ds. Join to second picot of the underlying chain going through your previous ring (image step 6).

Then work the other part of the ring and close (image step 7)

Take your work to the other side and load the 4mm bead on the thread of the other color (image step 8).

Reduce gap and with the same thread start a ring: 3ds, join to picot of first big ring, 3-3-3 and close (image step 9).

Work other two rings: 3+3-3-3, and 3+3-6 (image step 10)

Lock join to the 4mm bead (image step 11)

first steps of earring

Step 1: Load the 10 seed beads on the thread you want to be outside, knot the two threads together and start with ring 14 ds.
Continue with chain 1-4-4-1. On the core thread load the 6mm bead and hold it with a thick paper clip or other mean.



Step 2: Reduce gap between bead and chain, work the next 7ds.



Step 3: Take the thread of the other color and work a ring: 3-8, join to the thread of the bead, and work other 9ds and join to first picot of previous chain.



Step 4: Work the next 20ds.





Step 5: Close the ring and put the chain with the bead behind the ring.

earrings to make together

This is the lighter version of the earring, that we will work together. You need 6 cord thread size 20 (or 30, if you work very loose) in two colors, 4 6mm beads, 2 4mm beads, 20 seed beads, findings for earrings. We will start next Monday.

earrings for Azzurra

My friend Azzurra gave me a box with various beads and asked me to make her a pair of "important" earrings. Fortunately I hade some precious time in South Italy, where my husband made everything for me and I could tat the whole time I liked to. So I had wonderful inspirations and after a lot of trying and retrying I realized this pair of earrings for my friend:
The image is not very clear, because I scanned them, but I think you can see enough to appreciate them.

earring bon bon

Dear tatting friends,
In the moment I'm busy working for the international tatting exhibition in Horstmar (Germany). Also a new project is on the way, worked together with Inga Madsen. A lot of persons asked me to make them earrings, so this is also to do. My grandchildren are to look after, as my daughther's last weeks at the university before holyday are the most stressing ones.

I add here a picture from earring bon bon of my book, where I inserted one of those glas balls used for flowers and decorations, which are round on one side and a bit flat on the other. They fit perfectly inside the bon bon earring and give it consistency. Unfortunately the picture is not very good, because I scanned it, but you have an idea. Inserting the glass ball it was not possible to close the beads in the middle with the thread, so I closed them with a piece of very thin wire, which I carefully passed through the beads and then simply twisted, cut and hided a little piece behind the rings. Now it will be tested, if it holds.
As I made some progress in finding methods for making the yewellery, specially the bigger earrings, stiff withoug glue and other products, I have in mind to make a little videy for helping everybody to improve yewellery making skills.

The beadcross earrings

Dear tatting friends,
Now that I have finished my book I have time to work my patterns. This is an earring from the new book, one of my favorites. I worked it with a Finca Perle mixed with a metallic thread. Worked together these threads are about a 30 size. A metal wire inside the outer round holds the earring in perfect shape.

Easy earrings

These are earrings I designed time ago. They are easy, made with one shuttle only and I'm prepairing a free pattern for you to start the new year happily.

the summernecklace

This is the necklace with matching earrings, which was displayed in the exposition room at Palmetto Tat Days 2007.

Influenza

I had three terrible weeks in which the whole familiy was sick almost twice. My 8 month old grandboy, whom I babysit during the week while my daughter attends university, cried for two days and nights of cause of the fewer and caugh and close nose and in the night my husband, me and my daughter, everybody hold him for some hours in his arms in vertical position to permit him to sleep a little between crying. His sister also had fewer, vomiting and diarhea. My daughter also got ill with hight fewer. Then they were all so ill, that they didn't come and I was free but then I got also sick and so got my other daughter and my 6 year old granddaughter. It seems now all better, but after all suffering I got also a teeth ache and on monday I have to go to the dentist. I'm a bit depressed.
But, as you already know, when I'm sick, I'm creative and I designed and tatted these earrings.

olive earrings

These are the matching earrings to the olive necklace.