multicolor thread 1

Dear tattingfriends, I like so much to work with the multicolor thread, but I have discovered, that is does not work good with little motifs or doilies, because it hides the design. Therefore I have studied some designs, where the multicolor thread works wonderful. Here are some of them: for the left one I used for the outer round of the flowers the three colors of the multicolor thread of the inner round.

the rose

This is a flower with three layers of rings and chains on one single inner ring. I used the colours which I had on the shuttles, but the next try will be in rosa, because it looks like a rose. Some modifications are needed and as it is made with 4 shuttles, if they have the same colour of thread on them, or are of the same colour, they probably have to be numbered, but the procedure is not so difficult and very enjoying.

daffodil

I eventually managed to tat a daffodil! Unfortunately the scanner is not the right media to evidence the threedimensional shape of this flower, which is much nicer, than how it appears here.

Malva

The malva is one of the first flowers, which anounce the spring and warm weather coming. I like so much to see it during my walks on the hills around Prato.

colourplay number 6

This was very difficult. Yesterday evening the second flower to join on the previos was always wrong and I did not understand, why. So, frustrated, I went to bed, determined to solve the problem. So first I thougt about not to join the flowers directly, but to put rings between later, but thinking about the position of the first chain of the flower I solved the problem. And...here it is!

colourplay number 5

I'm continuing playing with coloured flowers!

colourplay number 4

It is a long time that I had that dream to tat colourful flowers. This edging is made with 4 threads. For the two big flowers I used the daisy picot technique, which I developped further. Threads are carried inside the chains and the whole edging is made in one pass.

colourplay number 3

colourplay number 2

Dear tattingfriends, Do you like this colourplay?

For the orange dress

Dear Jane Eborall, do you think this would match with your orange dress? (I'm sure she has one, perhaps not unicolour, thinking about her love for colours)

The orange is a bit pale, because the darker orange did not fit with the blue. Matching two colours of thread and adding even two colours of beads is very difficult. You look at the colours, you put the thread balls one over the other, and they seem to fit nice, you choose the beads, and they seem to fit nicely, you work them all together and then you through the piece away with disgust!

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.

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.

Edging in Black

This is another edging for the new book. I like it so much and started a piece in black. I cannot stop it, because I like to work it in black. So while I'm progressing with it, it is already half meter long, I'm thinking about what to do with it. Where can I put a black edging on? Please help me!

design realisation

There were some points in the first try, shich did not satisfy me. First the little square could not be inserted in the design without an extra chain, second the clunies were hanging a bit down. So I made a second design trying to find a way to make the square perfect and a chose to put the clunies on the outer round of the flower. Tatting it I realised the the chains on the second round under the flower were too short, so I also cut away the flowers of first try and make the chains longer. So now I like the result of both. Now I will try the next one!

First try

Today I was free from babysitting and I could tat the whole day. So I had time to try out one of the 3 designs. I used the idea Jon and redid the designs on a polar grid, which I prepaired with my drawing program. But...unfortunately I'm not satisfied with the result, I have to find out, what is it, that I have to change to better the result. Perhaps you have some suggestions.