recap

Not much to show you from the last days, I've been on the edgings for the hanky and for the rings' pillow (both finished) and I did a few more, something with bugle beads, testing a prototype for another edging, 5 and half rounds of Renulek's doily. Two weeks ago there was an exhibition of old laces here, organized by the local association, we had a lot of fun and learned too, about the history of lace in Italy. I've also been fiddling around without the shuttle! That's the good effect of the warm weather! I've also cleaned up the balcony and repot geranium, last year I had a colony of "Licenide" that it is a little beautiful butterfly but its caterpillar lives inside geranium's stem, I hope this year they will choose another balcony for their holiday resort.
Sorry, I digressed.
That is the rings' pillow, that I call finished as it is, I'll tack it in a piece of fabric and wash it, then it will be ready to be put away, I hope it will be used one day.

Then here it is the almost finished hanky, only one corner has still to be attached to the fabric:

 Oh, don't think that it's for blowing the nose!

Ciao,
Ninetta

Related posts
daisy in corner

spring at Priscilla's time

vintage 
something I like 

quite corner

froufrou
ideas from scraps
  spare wheels
  a penny for your thoughts  

something I like

I'm enjoying tatting this white edging, I like a lot the sheer lace effect of the tiny size 100 thread. That is what I've tatted till now

 

In Pinterest, you know when they send those mails "we found this that might be right up your alley" (and of course I like it), there's the photo of an item (already sold) in ebay, " Antique Tatted Fine Deep Wide lace wedding bridal hanky Circa 1900 NWOT" (in ebay nwot is new without tags); link is here:
 http://pin.it/4kF5a_e


I'm glad that I've found such a clear photo of the edging, probably that one is not so old. I zoomed in with the facility offered by ebay and looked at the connection points between the wheels and the inner round of rings, they are perfectly visible. In a previous post, Martha Ess kindly left a comment here, saying that she tatted it years ago and added some motifs to fill in the gaps, I loved her hint. Looking at the picture in ebay, you can see that the tatter let it almost as equal as described in the Priscilla's but the little flowers connected to the inner rings are five petals (instead of four). That could be another option. But I'm still dithering, I'm also thinking about getting rid of the inner round.

Ciao,
Ninetta

Related posts:

quite corner

froufrou
ideas from scraps
  spare wheels
  a penny for your thoughts  

quite corner

Thank you very much for your comments in last post, I value all your thoughts about how the inner row has to be connected to the wheels, it will be a nice puzzle when I finish the corners, but I'll be on the wheels for a while.

In my quite tatting corner, I'm still playing with bugle beads and I'd like starting something else, perhaps a colored motif. The "Tuesday Tatting Designers Class" has begun again and there will be a lot of inspirations, we are invited to give ideas and suggestions, too. Anyone who wants to join in is welcome! Infos are here: https://tattinghomework.wordpress.com/about/

I also joined the TIAS fun, I'm still hopeful that it is a butterfly... I'm very optimistic :)  it has got one wing, an eye, it is colored (variegated) and it flies around from one table to another. But actually the eye is wrongly placed, I think...

Ciao,
Ninetta

Related posts:

froufrou
ideas from scraps
  spare wheels
  a penny for your thoughts  

froufrou

That's how I'm trying to sort it out, even those joins in the inner row of the border seem barely fathomable in this moment:

I like that froufrou look, very vintage. I've shortened few picots and one corner of my edging is almost completed, I need one wheel and one flower. I played again with the zoom I took from the pfd file, trying to figure out the inner row.

Priscilla's words: "Along the inner edge of the border, make a double row of rings (each of 7ds, 7pp separated by 2ds, 7ds, close) joined by the first picot, and the outer row joined to the wheels and four-leaved figures..."

Well, I'm always puzzled by the word "join" put there as though you were sitting side by side aunt Priscilla while she was tatting and chatting. I can see the rings joined to the wheels by 2 or 3 picots up there, aren't they?

I think I should tat all corners first, then I'll think about it.

Ciao,
Ninetta

Related posts:
ideas from scraps
  spare wheels
  a penny for your thoughts  

spare wheels

My heartfelt thanks to all of you who were so kind to leave a comment in last post. I tried all options, except the one with little rings of 4-4, and I had a first sample cup that broken in the middle (I won't show you that) but another two that I like. Surprisingly, those two motifs - tatted with the same stitches' count - are (again) very different from each other.

(that one in the right is the same showed in previous post).
My favourite is the one on the left, tatted with a gauge of 0.5cm both for picots and BTS. But I think that the one in the centre looks more like the motif in Priscilla's edging.

For that one I used a gauge of 1cm for long picots in the centre, then 0.5cm for picots in large rings. For the BTS I left about 2.5mm (more or less, without a gauge).

I still don't know which version I'll use for tatting my edging, but now I've a lot of spare wheels to play with!

In the meanwhile... Last Saturday and Sunday we met again those Maestre of Bosa's lace, “SU LÀURU 'OSINCU”, we had 2 intense days of lessons and I started embroidering another net. We were few people, less than in past two years, but we enjoyed every minute. They came for the first time in October 2014 , then in October 2015.
Some of us, with the teacher:

That is my started work, without a drawing to follow but with the help of the sweet teacher:

If you are curious and would like learning more about Bosa's filèt, you may read a great post by Jeanine: Sardinian Bosa Filet Lace
There's another link I found, with pictures of nets designed and done by the very same ladies who came here, but it's in Italian: 
http://www.ladonnasarda.it/magazine/chi-siamo/3087/tradizioni-e-saperi-si-intrecciano-nel-filet-il-ricamo-di-bosa.html

Adios
( http://www.ecuador.com/language/ )
Ninetta

Related posts:

a penny for your thoughts

vintage thread

wheels alla priscilla 

blog anniversary

Thank you very much for visiting me during these 3 years! Time flew!

I know Who has to be blamed for these almost 300 posts of mine that you've had to put up with ;-) ... (thank you dear!), but I don't know how it's been possible that I had over than 200,000 visits! My heartfelt thank you to everyone! Thank you so much for your support and for sharing with me your love for tatting. If you are a blogger too, please let me know with a comment, I'll add it in "My Blog list" in the sidebar. (I'd also say thanks to Google Translator, indeed!)

This week I'm going on with the green&purple doily, but I just needed a break. That's how the centre looks in white:

Sorry, I can't say what that thread is, very thin but without a label, it's a cotton ball my aunt gave me last year so it's been something old, not so much twisted in fact the lace turned out very soft.

chau
( https://halupi.us/2012/06/28/uruguayan-greetings/ )
Ninetta

Related post

wide 

more from 1924

I love the look of that swirly centre, but with just one colour it didn't show off so much. The core thread is yellow in that motif, a great trick to emphasise the rotating shape.

But after few rounds I wondered how much I would have resisted... Not so much, actually!

It's fast and easy. I don't change hands' position from the chain. Bend the core thread on the left and put the hook inside to grab a loop, then put the core shuttle inside the loop. Pictures in Priscilla Tatting Book #3 are very clear. ( http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/pub/PDF/PriscillaTat3.pdf )

Following a tip from Priscilla's rose motif, I left a little picot before starting next chain:

My little sample is already finished. Do I like it? So so...

But I'm very happy that I've learned something new from such an old book. That's exciting!

Bislemma
( http://www.nomarmiteintunisia.co.uk/tunisianphrases.htm )
Ninetta

Related post

time means nothing

a lovely angel

I found this cute angel in Pinterest, a picture with numbers on it, I could not resist tatting it, it's so lovely!

Designed by Patrizia Pirocca. My first version has been tatted with a size 70 thread:

I tatted it again in DMC Cebelia n.10:

Chao
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_Spanish )
Ninetta

time means nothing

This little motif is my first attempt to replicate the rose motif at page 15 of Priscilla Tatting #3.

The book can be downloaded at  http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/html/warm/tatting.htm

At page 14 there's a large "Centrepiece in knot stitch tatting" (Figure 48), in which they propose a stitch (different from first or second half of a ds) made with the working shuttle over the thread around the hand, that mimics the ds and can be also used in place of a split chain (when you join to the right with core thread leaving a space of bare thread and go back tatting over that narrow space). In my opinion it is faster than tatting a split chain, once you get the hang of it. But it needs exercise, and my first sample is not as regular as the sample in the book. It took me a ridiculous amount of time! For the centrepiece, you would tat 109 roses and 162 leaves! Tatting all those motifs can take a lifetime! But for sure I'll tat a second one, it's lovely, isn't it?

 Ma'as salaama
( http://arabic.desert-sky.net/greetings.html )
Ninetta

pattern for the sugary square

Ciao,
Ninetta

Related post

oh sugar sugar!

oh sugar sugar!

That's just a joke: I posted a pic in my FB page of some squares made with a sugar paste (I used a silicone mold), it's the so called "sweet lace" - also in Italian -, and I found a mold that looks like a tatted square! Who commented laughed a lot, and I did the same, even someone asked for a pattern!

So, why not? Just to have fun, I drew a square, then tatted it with white dmc size 70, and it's almost like the sugar! 

Oh, Sugar, Sugar! It's been since Tuesday that I've in mind that melody and can't help myself, I have to whistle!

Here you are the sugar squares to be compared with it. Truth be told, I don't think that my tatting came out like the mold... especially because one took so long to be ready (about 2 hours), while the sugar paste was very collaborative and I had 24 in one hour!!

The centre is a round of little rings 3-3. I used a pin as an helper, I did the same in the tricky flower in the centre of Renulek's WIOSNA2016. Last ring was a split ring.

That let me climb to the next round with another SR. This is the second round finished:

And this is the third round finished, with a different background:

... I almost forget to show you a gift just received from one of my beloved aunts:

Mani di Fata - "Il Lavoro Chiacchierino #19". There's their usual traditional tatting (a tablecloth, a dozen white doilies, also attached to linen) but this time they put free-form tatting (there's a lovely picture with 2 birds on a branch) and separate written instructions for needle-tatters. Very few schematics (visual patterns) but that's good, they used to have only written instruction. Just as curiosity, one rectangular doily has squared motifs that are the same found in another old pubblication I got, there used as edging's corner, here arranged in a beautiful way, I'll tell you more about it!

Do vasidenia.
(http://wikitravel.org/en/Slovak_phrasebook)
Ninetta

bride's earrings

That's good! two earrings and both with the same pattern!!

... about all other prototypes:
The blue one remains as a pendant, 'cause I run out the same silk.
The brown one had its sibling - they are not twins though - and I wear them proudly, they aren't so showy as I thought before.
The white/cream version was more like the final pattern, so I made a second one and they are almost equal - ears are far enough.

Now it's time to shelve the plastic [aehm, polyester], so I resumed my shuttles loaded with dmc Special Dentelles size 80. Ah! It's nice to come back to the softness of the cotton! Next post. A clue? A classic by Jeanne Lugert... Did you already guess?

Hei hei (HAY-hay), Moi moi (MOI-moi)
( http://wikitravel.org/en/Finnish_phrasebook )
Ninetta

Related posts:

earrings or pendant?

a bride's necklace

a bride's necklace

Well, it ruffles a lot, I think next time I should put less beads.

It needed a little blocking, but at the end it was not so bad...

I forgot to show you how I put all those beads in chains without going crazy!  I put  beads a few at a time in the segment of core thread between the little finger and the stitches, then I hadn't to wind and unwind anything, the beads were already handy.

It's not perfect, not so taking, with all its cuts and adds of thread it is quite a disaster. But, I hope, it will find a recipient, someday.

Next post: Now I need... earrings to match !

Totsiens
( https://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g293740-s604/South-Africa:Important.Phrases.html ) 
Ninetta

Related posts:

My way to add a new core thread in a chain

My way to add a new ball thread in a chain
the last chain - ending with SSSCh
forget about it!   

dirty, already!

White and silk it's not a wise choice, it's already dirty, despite I always wash my hands before picking it up.
I like it and the pattern it's demanding but very addictive, I haven't tatted anything else in 5 days.

The dotted line is the growing direction for the pattern, it grows one triangle at a time, but at the end of every triangle I should decide what to do: the next triangle will double the size (and the time to tat it!). I'm lucky, very few mistakes till now.

Do you imagine that with some layered flowers? And a fringe with little shining beads? They can be added later, there's a ton of tatting to do before I reach a little shawl's size!

The idea of layered flowers come to me from a lace that I absolutely love, the Venetian needle lace, but I can't do it. When we went to Venezia, last summer, we didn't go to Burano (it's an hour from Venezia) for lack of time but I bought a booklet with a bit of that lace history and many pictures. I visited  Burano in 1995, at least I managed to go there once! I've had some opportunities to see the lace in person, for example last year in Zagarolo (I talked about it here in the blog: http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2015/05/trapped-in-repetitions.html). I remember there is a piece also in Modena (north Italy) at the "Palazzo dei Musei" (a building from XVII c. that is itself a piece of art). I also bought a catalog there, many years ago (I found a review of that: http://www.annatextiles.ch/book_rev/rev2003/r2003gand/r2003gan.htm). In fact in Modena there's a unique collection with many cut pieces of handmade lace and fabric, collected during the second half of 1800, when the industry started to compete with artisans in patterns and techniques. Many fragments are clearly cut by scissors because industry owners used to exchange samples. If I remeber well, and I should check again into the catalog, just to be sure, there is no one piece of tatting.

I'm so sorry that the picture of the back cover of the booklet it's not as clear as I hoped!

Ciao,
Ninetta

fragile and plasticky

That is about the same pattern of the ball (http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2015/11/romper-suits-for-ball.html), rings and chains are 6-6 instead of 8-8. I also added floating rings to reach the top. Thread is dmc Diamant 100% polyester, D5200. That is sold in spool of 35meters, only sufficient to tat two pairs, or better... one pair good and one pair prototype!

Polyester is plastic, isn't it? It stands up even without the glass ball inside...

That has been the first time that I needed pliers to hide the end!

Ciao,
Ninetta

delivered

That is how it looked

It flied with me on Friday, a short journey, just one hour, and landed in Calabria, in front of Stromboli.

Best wishes, dear friends!

Ciao,
Ninetta

light as a cloud

Ciao,
Ninetta

I do.

Pattern is from a booklet "Selezione Tricot - Il Chiacchierino", but a very similar one it is at page 8 of Priscilla Tatting Book #1, fig.24 "trimming".

Ciao,
Ninetta

quad_24 rescued

Thread is dmc size 70, pattern is a variation of quad_24, stitches' count is here: http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.it/2015/08/lazy-patterns-saga-quad24.html

I used the square flawed (can you spot it?), partially amended by Doctor Downplay, and took your advice to leave arms of the square not connected. It measures about 20 x 20 cm. It could be used as a rings' pillow but with something added in the center, I think, like some embroidery.

I copied from Priscilla's frame the solution used there, to connect all squares and half-squares together, with a final round of rings and chains.

We go often to the sanctuary of Saint Gabriel, near the Gran Sasso mountain. There is always a lot of people there, at any time of the year, but mostly busy during august, when a lot come from outside Italy, too, visiting relatives.

On the 2nd of march 2014 it was inaugurated a new big bronze door (by Paolo Annibali sculptor). It is 4 x 5 meters and they say that its weight is 6000 kilograms! There is a website for the sanctuary, but it's in italian: http://www.sangabriele.org/

"Porta degli emigrati" - door of emigrants

Ciao,
Ninetta

priscilla's frame

Thread is dmc size 80, pattern is from Priscilla Tatting Book #2. It measures about 18x18 cm, a good size for a wedding rings' pillow. I didn't change the number of ds for the half-square, only added a chain of 6-3-3-3-3 to climb to the second round.

I love this frame, I like very much the pattern construction, that is making squares and half-squares separately, then link everything with a fast round of chains. Very clever and so simple.

delicious blackberries

Those delicious blackberries were in the "Parco del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga": http://www.gransassolagapark.it/Eindex.php

Gran Sasso - the sleeping giant

Ciao,

Ninetta