Vinnie's tattings

Bead crochet and Macrame

2012-01-31T08:42:00.000+05:30

Bead crochet has become an integral part of my works lately.

I'd been doing it so much that I'm now unable to do it anymore!

I've hurt my thumb joints so much that I've had to take physiotherapy for it.

It hurts everytime that I hold a crochet hook.

It's been some time now that I'm unable to do it,

so I've now taught our drivers wife how to do it

and she's doing it soooo well!

But on the bright side, I get time to design more stuff now.

I've been designing some bead crochet lariats, necklaces and bracelets.

I'll show them here when ever I've taken pics.

There's still so much to do!

My Valentine line is just no where to finishing

and I think that if I go by this pace I'll be able list them only after Valentines Day.

Can't crochet much, or having transferred my crochet responsibilities elsewhere,

I'm also now free much more to experiment with other things.

I've been trying my hand at macrame and am coming to get the hang of it

I'm getting better with my knots,

Remember the photos of my last macrame post,

I'd started the black and red and white bracelet, I finished that too.

Does it look Valentine'y?

I'm so inspired by

Sherry Stokey's

"Oh So Beautiful" work,

such perfect knots!

I forever wanted to do these bracelet and earrings.

It's a pretty simple xo type of pattern

but I love the colors, so watery....
I lost one of the earrings and I had to make one again,

and I could make it much faster this time.

Also I so love the leafy necklaces

that Jeanne Wertman makes

and I so so wanted to learn to make those pretty leaves.

After a lot of unsuccessful attempts

(which you can see at the top of the photo)

I ultimately found her leaf instructions on

Macrame Lovers Blog.

Thank You so much Jeanne!

And now I Can Make Leaves!!!!!

Yooooohoooo!!!!!

I have to have to make a leafy bracelet now.....

And Tyson says he'll help me make them.........

Luv,

Vinnie

Macrame trials.....

2012-01-25T11:26:00.007+05:30

This is the second macrame bracelet I'm trying......

I've been trying to make something 'Valentine-y'

The second photo is what I made prior to this one. Somehow wasn't happy with it 'coz the crystals were a little heavy for the thread and I couldn't finish it well.
But my friend who took it from me said she loved it!

Happy New Year!!!

2012-01-09T18:15:00.001+05:30

Delhi's turning wintery by the day

and

my hair is getting shorter by the day!

Hi,

Long time no see......

Every time I pledge to keep coming back,

I don't.

so, this time,

I don't know when I'll be back.

Therefore, lets make the best of this time.

Let me show you some things I've made lately......

Crystal Flower Earrings

I've got new shops now on-line

Mirraw.com

and at

SHOPO.in

Dark Flower Necklace

A unique combination of tatting, crochet and beads. The pendant is a large teardrop shaped
multicolor crystal set in a fringe of tatting with beads. The Cord is bead crochet in
burnt gold and black seed beads.

And I had year ending sales at both the sites....

Well, it's on now too...

Moonlit night earrings

Labradorite stones set in dark multicolored beads with little midnight blue smallest of
seed beads.
The stones have a delicate bluish moonlight shimmer.

I'm planning to list out new things sometime later in this month.

Tiger Eyes Earrings

Tiger Eye stones encased in beads with tiger eye dangles.

I've got so much to show and so much to tell!

but,

No Time!!!

Purple Sun Brooch

Amethyst stone cabbed with purple beads and embellished with crystals on a backing of leather.....

But I got to show you this....

I made these pretty snowflakes before christmas

They are embellished with little silver beads, they just don't show in the photos :(

See, I have not forgotten how to tat!!!

See U soon,

Love,

Vinnie.

Check

2012-01-09T09:43:00.000+05:30

Doing something colorful

Tired of being away....

2011-07-30T21:41:00.001+05:30

I've decided I'm going to come back to my blog.

So, here I am,

Ever so confused how to,

or may be what to write about.

Well,

Life's good.

Fired soul necklace

I'm enjoying my beading more than ever.....

Night Sky Necklace and bracelet

Started with my new ETSY shop

and gave it a new name

Vee3 Beads and More.....

Black and white Necklace

Got sort of addicted to audiobooks....

Currently can't keep off

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series!

Night sky earrings

Falling in love with the color blue.....

Friendship bracelet

Learned how to make friendship bracelets,

Stars and kitties swirl wire anklet

Can't keep off my crochet hook....

Terra-I Necklace

And love what I do.....

Serenity Bead crochet choker

And do what I love.

Could I ask more out of life?

Much water is flowing.......

2011-04-26T17:28:00.000+05:30

Life is going on.....

and

on....

And water is flowing.....

under the bridge of course!

So long!...So long since I posted!!!

Can't even believe that.

Well, all sort of things have happened since I last posted here....

I was frantically working on my beads all of Jan and Feb

as I had an Exhibition of my work...

Nothing Big though...

It was at my home,

with family and friends.

Not that my work was not appreciated, but,

somehow what I remember most is...

"Why are you wasting so much energy on something like this?

You are already a professional and its like you are wasting your time."

Am I really wasting my time?

Few days back I had a robbery,

I've never had anything taken away from me...

My car window was smashed and my handbag with all my credit cards, ID,

My bead bag and other imp stuff

robbed in broad daylight....

He took away my gym bag!

with my clothes and towel!

My bag hardly had any cash,

the credit cards have been blocked,

accounts closed,

new IDs applied for...

BUT,

what is that person going to do with my clothes?

What's he going to do with my ID , my DL?

They should be useless to him ,

Why can't he just return them back?

Recently I talked to one of my college colleague,

I was pretty excited as we used to be friends,

This person tells me-

You're not a 20 something college girl now to laugh out so loud!

!!?!!!?

I have a loving family

Parents , Sister, Inlaws, husband

who have always stood by me whatever may happen, whatever I may do,

They have always been there,

I know I don't need anything more in this world...

But somewhere it hurts.

Why do people have to form opinions?

Why can't I be what I want to be?

It's cold.....

2011-01-14T14:32:00.000+05:30

Tatting and Beads

Simple tatted red rings

with a yummy shade of red beads........

and some fresh green beads......

with

little tatted buds at the ends......

make a berry delicious necklace!

It's cold and windy out here in Delhi,

makes me miss the sunny beaches of

Goa......

Loved making this light summery set.

And to come back to the cold reality.......

Cool blue crochet bangles.

Happy new Year!

2011-01-05T14:58:00.000+05:30

Wishing a very happy and prosperous new year to all.

I've been away from my blog for so long!!!!

Unbelievable!

Been caught up in so much .......

and may be nothing at all.....

Time is just flying flying by!!!

(Red beads Beaded heart)

Got so many things going on.......

( Crochet band adorned with beads)

Don't know where to start......

(Start of a Daisy chain woven bracelet)

I think I'll let the pics do the talking.......

(Red and White Beaded beads)

(pink beads and crystals bracelet)

(Crochet beaded balls and a bead adorned flower)

(Assembly of the Pink and Blue Necklace)

Pink and blue necklace

( Gold crystals beaded beads pendant)

Gold crystal necklace

Blue beads and crystals on faceted glass

And yes there's some pure tating fun too.....

(Red Tatted edging)

Beaded bead with tatting

Wish you all a

Happy New Decade

Luv

Vinnie

Again.....

2010-11-25T12:47:00.001+05:30

Did it again......

But not in black!

I couldn't find my black thread!

(can you ever believe that!)

But I think blue is not bad......

This time made the piece into a locket,

on a tatted josephine chain.

Made a set of earring danglers to go with it,

Another set of little earring I made

while practicing a new technique.

1st time used crystals,

with sky blue glass and seed beads....

Cherrytreebaby

I'm getting better......

2010-11-11T14:18:00.000+05:30

Lost the cover of my phone.....

New one

made.....

With a Beaded Lock!

First time to try peyote in different size beads,

pretty easy and quick.

I'm also getting better at my beaded beads.....

The tension is better,

The orientation of the beads is getting better too...

I love these little guys.

Thank You so much for commenting on my last post.

I'd been wanting to do this for a long time.

My husband,

who always has some wierd expression on his face

whenever I show him my work

and never knows what to say,

LIKED

the tatted piece

and in fact wants me to make it in black!

This has to be the

BESTEST

comment to date!

A Special mention for

FOX

Thank you so much for leaving such encouraging comments,

I love whatever you say.

You should be a writer!

Crazy Mom

I Love and greatly admire Teri's Work

and never thought I could make anything like her.

I'm honoured if my piece reminded you of her .

Luv,

It had to happen......

2010-11-09T15:03:00.000+05:30

Clay,

Beads,

Thread

Tatting!!!!

All my favourite things at one place.

Green Peace.......

2010-11-02T17:05:00.000+05:30

My favorite colors.....

Necklace with a focal beaded bead.....

Listed now in my shop.......

I'm so addicted!!!

2010-10-29T16:31:00.001+05:30

Just can't put my beads away.......

Bellis

Lovely delicate bracelet,

in my fav color combination.

Modified Daisy chain.

Blue Eyes

A Chunky bracelet

with a toggle that has an identity of it's own...

The pics not doing any justice to the piece!

Lovely blues...

with a dash of white.....

Modified RAW

Inspired by Gwen Fisher's work

Carrion

Beautiful Pattern by

Gwen Fisher

Loved the complexity of the pattern....

Looks like lace!

The colors????

Oh, so so wrong!!!!

The locks are beaded buttons..

I have to do that again.

Oswego

Like little beehives.....

Adapted from Unicornio's Capricho pattern

to make a set of three beaded beads.....

Still awaiting a chain to go through them!

UFO's

Large lampwork glass beads worked with

copper colored seed beads and orange glass beads.....

UFOs for the wrist!

Vetch

Light and fluid.....

Lovely colors,

Love that turquoise.....

An airy bracelet....

I have so many bracelets now,

Most of them are just lying in a box.....

I'm going to list them up on my Artfire shop

I might as well share my treasures with

You

Visit my shop

HERE,

Do keep checking..

I'll be listing soon.

Until next time......

Big beads

2010-10-07T16:12:00.000+05:30

Remember when I got a loot of beads?

I'd bought these big tear drop shaped beads

and I had no idea what I'd do with them.

Found some inspiration here

(not that I reached anywhere near the original!)

Bubbles

Another one....

Big green beads

covered in gold and red.

Double gold

I like the backside of the flower,

maybe, it could be a reversible pendant!

Flowers

2010-09-30T14:54:00.000+05:30

Made a second batch of cold porcelaine clay.

Tried out these little roses.

While waiting for the roses to dry,

made some bead flowers.......

Bead flower bracelet

More than beads.....

2010-09-29T14:13:00.001+05:30

Still enjoying myself with beads......

A Collection of some beaded beads I've made recently.

A double flat spiral bracelet.

Blues....

2010-09-15T09:14:00.000+05:30

Continuing.......

The color doesn't seem to go off my mind

or my beads....

Beaded beads with glass beads, elastic bangle.

Blue blooms bracelet.

Trying to change the colors.......

Icy blue

2010-09-09T09:16:00.000+05:30

Can't seem to get enough of the maze!

This time in shades of blue

The pattern is by

Sabine Lippert

Thanks Sabine!

Still more blues to come......

I love this......

2010-09-01T09:16:00.000+05:30

A flat spiral stitch bracelet

Maze lace

2010-08-30T16:58:00.000+05:30

Maze lace bracelet.

B..bb..b...bbb...beading....

2010-08-26T15:15:00.001+05:30

Can't stop beading.....

Finished a full spool of nylon,

Broken three needles,

and my fingers are seived.......

( pink herringbone bracelet for my neice)

But....

I'm loving it!

( Red and gold bead netting bracelet for my sis, modelled by my neice)

I'm trying to learn new techniques,

It's so engrossing and fun!

Here are a few of the things I've made lately.....

1. Bead net in Red and gold, adorned with russian leaves and a bell flower.

2.Mittered Cellini spiral.

3. Bead crochet rope with peyote loop and toggle.

4. Bead crochet rope different size beads and peyote toggle and loop.

5.Herringbone strip with scrunch bead flower, a russian leaf and a bell flower.

Beaded beads

I'm back

2010-08-15T10:14:00.001+05:30

Hi,

I've been gone from here for two months!

though I was back from the Europe trip in the end of June,

I've just not had the time to post anything.

Life has been a whirlwind since the time I've been back!

1st here are a few snapshots of our

lovely lovely trip......

Now that I'm back, I haven't been upto much.....

But I did make some things......

Tatted bracelet in Black with blue beads

It's a bracelet made with a single shuttle

and a pretty easy pattern I came up with.

I've written down the pattern

and

would try to make it available here some time soon.

A simple tatted set

with transparent beads

Small flowers

and

Josephine chain string.

I'd made several of these

to send to my Ravelry swap group.

Pretty fast and simple to work.

I bought these scissors from a store in

Colmar (France)

Lovely, isn't it?

Alongside,

a tatted and a crochet flower in silk.

The thread tats up beautifully,

though a little slippery.

not fun to crochet with it at all!

A small tapestry crochet pouch for my

MP3 player

with a beaded toggle.

Talking of beads,

That's what I've been doing a lot these days,

in whatever time I get, that is!

Beaded flowers set

with small flower earrings.

Trying to bead a bead....

Russian leaves earrings...

Tried to make a bangle......

Bead crochet rope

with bead baubles at the ends,

but it's a little short to go around the wrist,

So,

Added a peyote loop and

made a charm for my purse handle!

Peyote strip....

and a toggle....

Bracelet!

Cold Porcelaine beads bracelet.

And finally....

Bead Crochet rope lariat

with

a beaded Calla lily at one end

and bead corals at the other...

I love this one!

I've made a bracelet to go with it

can't find the pic right now.....

Learning to do the

Cellini spiral.....

That's what I'm carrying around

in my purse these days......

That's it for now.....

See you soon later.

Going......

2010-06-13T17:15:00.000+05:30

On a loooong vacation

to Europe!

This is the first time I'll be

travelling out of India!!!

I'm so excited!!!!

Don't know if I can carry my shuttles in the plane though......

I'll get back to you later.....

Got to go and PACK!!!!

OK BYE for now.....

SeeYou soon......

LUV

Connecting.....

2010-06-08T08:58:00.000+05:30

the beads......

Lovely garden Bracelet

Moonlight Roses......

Lots of Blues.....

2010-06-06T10:11:00.001+05:30

I think I love the color blue....

and in all it's hues.

I discovered a new medium to work with,

Cold Porcelain!

The 1st color I tried out?

Well,

BLUE!!!

Blue beads

Blue roses,

and my fav blue rose!

Then there's the cotton I boutght.....

Even had fun making balls....

of blue!!!

and use them to make a fat bottom bag

with

Blue flowers....

and added sparkle

with blue silver foil glass beads.

Crocheting on....

Blue sparkly beads

crocheted on blue thread

into a rope

and turned into a bracelet

with some of the blue cold porcelain

and blue glass beads.....

And the heart turned blue too......

only it doesn't quite look like a heart!?!.....

Second try...

Looks like a perfect

(or not so perfect!)

Blue Heart....

OK,

life is not so blue after all.....

there are some

Reds....

Peaches,

Yellows...

and Greens too....

Now to see what colors life brings up next......

Weekend trip

2010-05-26T18:01:00.001+05:30

We were off to the Ganga River for rafting.

Left on friday night and got back on sunday (late night)

We went in a big group of nearly 20 people

and enjoyed a lot.

Didn't get time to post about it earlier,

Here are some of the pics

Me, sis & Khyati

The tent we stayed in

The camp from the river bank

The river Ganga at dawn

Sunrise on the mountains

I was the first one to wake up the next morning at nearly 4:30 AM

It was amazing!

No human sounds at all...

only the sounds of the river and the birds chirping....

I sat on the rocks

with my feet in the ice cold water

for nearly two hours,

and it was really peaceful and relaxing

to sit there and crochet.

Another crochet edging I started there.

Later in the day the river rafting was simply amazing.

Loved every moment of the trip.

And now back at home and the usual....

New crochet cell phone bag in white cotton.

And a bracelet with green beads and wires.

Until next time......

Luv.

I'm guilty!

2010-05-19T09:39:00.000+05:30

Of indulging exessively!!!!

Me and my neice went to

Chandni Chowk

in Delhi

to have some fun

and ended up finding whole sellers for beads, threads,

jewellery supplies,

you name it you have it there.....

and all at almost 1/10th the price of retail!!!!

Lots of cotton yarn...

A lifetime supply of beads...

Glass beads!

and some silk...

The shopkeeper must be thinking I'm crazy!!!

You can't even imagine my level of elation!!!

And now for some tatting.....

Something starry.....!!??

To mark my

'Starry-eyed-ness'!!

For a friend....

2010-05-18T08:44:00.000+05:30

far far away.......

My hands are sore.....

2010-05-13T18:02:00.000+05:30

But I'm loving every moment of it!

Making....

creating

these.....

A necklace of tatted lace....

Pink and Red thread,

Lots of split rings.....

And a split ring locket,

with pink and red bead dangles.

And some scrolled wire bracelets.....

Luv.

New addition to family

2010-05-11T08:44:00.000+05:30

My son had his 4th B'day

on 8th May

and we got him this....

Cute little yellow Labrador pup!

He's sooooo cute and cuddly,

and very playful.

Plays for 15 mins, sleeps for 15 mins!

Still deciding on a name for him......

Tyson?

Sultan?

Coco?

Vito?

So confusing!

Bracelets

2010-05-05T21:37:00.001+05:30

I hardly wear anything around my neck

other than the chain my hubby gave me on our wedding night,

with a locket my mom gave me some 15 years back, I think.

Only place I wear my 'other' stuff

is on my wrists.

So, made bracelets of the long spiral chains I'd made.

Some tatted flowers I made up as fillers of time....

end up on a pink spiral chain to make another one....

Do you see the center of the flowers......

I filled it up with some thread weaving kind of thing...

(nice way to handle the thread ends on such small motifs! )

I don't know what it's called,

but I've done it for the first time.....

Looks lovely though, doesn't it?

Until next time.......

SeeYa!

P.S

Nicki Lee is hosting a Giveaway on her blog

RavioLee Dreams

For her 100th Blog Anniversary.

Do visit her blog, it's beautiful.

Tatting and wires

2010-05-03T08:47:00.001+05:30

Just some pics.....

No words.....

Wired up.....

2010-04-29T23:59:00.000+05:30

Trying my hand at wire wrapping.....

( Black and white seed beads on wire spirals)

My hands are hurting less now.......

(Large blue glass beads on wire spirals)

gone to my hubby's cousin....Neha

now that I'm getting the hang of it......

(Lots of wire spirals, some seed beads and a centre glass bead)

Confiscated "as soon as she layed eyes upon it" by my sister!

Still more to come......

Ooooh.....Thanks!!!!

2010-04-27T17:25:00.001+05:30

Thank You all so much

for such lovely comments on my last post...

It was very encouraging.

You could see me smiling from ear to ear!

I've never had so many comments on any posts

since I started this blog about year and a half ago!

I'm very very flattered indeed.

.
And now for some pics of what I've been upto in the last week......

Taking a small break from the hectic tatting

got this
Anklet made
in crochet,
.

Blue seed beads with Anchor 20 cotton.

And then

back to tatting,

A little edging

I thought up of while fiddling with my shuttles

Still not thought of what I'm going to do with it....

And

a tatted bracelet.

Light blue transparent seed beads on white thread,

Rolled on wire with beads for the toggle type lock.

Thanks for coming by and having a look....

Playing with rings

2010-04-23T14:31:00.000+05:30

Well, I've been very busy tatting this week.

Got an idea, inspired by how

Iris has used the rings in her earrings.

Loved the dimensional effect she created

and I just couldn't stop myself from doing this.

Rings on rings.....

Got it correct after a lot of tries,

Made it into a bracelet

Here's a closer look at the lock

(I'm loving the play with wires too!)

Next,

Trying to add some more of the 3rd dimension to tatting

Puffed up swirling rings.

Again made it into a bracelet

and of course, the lock

See those puffed up rings?

I think I'm going to try this out with beads next.

And Finally

My Swirling Heart

Same on both sides.....

Another look at a differnt angle?

That could make a pretty locket......

So, what do you think?

Fresh....

2010-04-22T12:57:00.000+05:30

Light blue green shiny seed beads on white thread.....

Rings only pattern....

Transparent mother of pearl polish button for lock.

Light and fresh......

Iris earrings

2010-04-16T09:41:00.000+05:30

Finally got it right!

Woke up almost all night tatting and retatting....

couldn't sleep without getting this done!

Lovely earrings, lovely pattern.

Thanks Iris.

Sunny

2010-04-07T09:54:00.000+05:30

Large yellow beads on pristine white thread

Lots of sunny things on my

absolutely tanned wrist.

Still turning some wires

Luv

Wired up....

2010-04-06T17:35:00.000+05:30

Trying out things with wires....

Lockets with glass beads and wires

and a bracelet

And, my o'my,

are my fingers hurting!

Some great tutorials on wire jewellery can be found

The Beading Gem's Journal.

Black and white

2010-04-03T17:37:00.001+05:30

I've was wearing black and white today

an so wanted to do something in those colors

Here's the bracelet I made today...

White Cotton size 20 Anchor

Black shiny beads,

And,

The Lock made with wire

BY ME!

This is the first time I've tried to do some wire twisting stuff.

I always wondered what to put on my bracelets for locks,

The one's we get here are just not pretty enough,

or look so bulky with the delicate tatting!

It was a little rough and hard on my fingers,

But,

It's not bad for a first attempt!

In the meantime,

here's what I got in the mail....

Miranda

has made the Spring Doily-2

You can read more about it on her blog here.

Spring Doily-2

Done by Tatskool

in Floretta.

It's here!

2010-03-31T23:00:00.000+05:30

Happy

International

Tatting Day

Here is what I've been tatting for the past one month

as a special tribute to this day.

'The Dark Woods Doily'

(Done in Anchor size 20 cotton thread,

11x9.5 inches finished)

This is the second year I'm going to celebrate this

'festival'.

How I'm going to do it?

Well,

I'll be tatting of course,

eat chocolate,

(even though I'm supposed to be on a diet, and I'm so trying to be off them! )

wear some tatting on me,

and have some wine

( it wouldn't hurt to have just a little!)

(and even though it's not a compulsory on the day!)

I'm definitely looking forward to a

HAPPY ;)

Tatting Day

ahead!

AND

Wish the same for You.

At last!!!!

2010-03-31T17:17:00.000+05:30

At last

Fox

Tat-ology

has finished the

Spring Doily-2!

And it has turned out awesome!!!

Take a look at it

here.

Thanks for all the effort Fox.

Love it!

Lazy Sunday

2010-03-28T17:43:00.000+05:30

What do you do on a lazy sunday noon

when everybody in the house is sleeping?

I was not sleepy at all,

what else could I do.....

Took out my shuttles and got to work!

These doodles

got transformed into this.....

And then I had to get a nice pictures of them so I could show you!

Then decide which ones to keep, edit and post!

Turned out to be quite a busy afternoon after all!

Hi There!

2010-03-26T08:55:00.003+05:30

Hello!

Got my computer revamped and it's functioning a lot faster and better now.

My computer was taking ages to do anything!

In the meanwhile Mageretha send me a pic of the heart made off the Spring Doily

Thank you Margeretha for trying this out and not giving up on me.

And those are some really pretty shuttles!

I've tried to improve on the pattern pics but I hate writing out the pattern,

I'll try to do that next time for sure.

I've been invited by Georgia Seitz to the

Online tatting Class

to guest teach the Spring Doily Pattern and the heart.

This will be on 29th March.

I'm so excited!

Hope to see you there.

Here's another peep into my current project.

I'm trying real hard to finish by 1st April

but it's proving to be quite a tedious task.

I'll try though.

Luv ya all.

Bye.

Test-Tat results

2010-03-22T13:56:00.003+05:30

I'm so thankful to all of you who have tried out my Spring patterns.

Here's what I've recieved so far.....

Spring Heart

Tatted by Gina from Threads of a Tatting Goddess

Done in Tatskool's Choco-raspberry size-40 thread.

Gina has done the outside chains a bit differently and put in picots at the top and added a second row of chains too. She's used the shuttle and ball thread instead of using two shuttles.

It's lovely and I love the colors.
She's also planned to put a tail on it to make a bookmark for her friend.

Thank You Gina.

Spring Doily-2

Tatted by Jenny Clark aka Liyarra

Done in Lizbeth's Vineyard Harvest size-40

Liyarra has put up this doily on her page and has written some very very nice things about me too!

I'm really honoured.

Thank You Liyarra.

Still waiting for the pics and feedback from

Fox

and

Margaretha.

Thanks for doing this for me.

I wanted someone to test-tat my pattern as that was the only way to know where I'm lacking and whether I'm able to put across my pattern in a way that everybody understood.

According to the feedback I've had so far,

I think the nature and positions of the joins required were a little confusing.

For all those who are still trying I'll try to explain better here.....

I've done this in two colors to make it easier

Shuttle-1 Pink

Shuttle-2 Purple

The first part is pretty simple.

then there's a chain of 16-16

and a join at the core thread to a chain that has not been formed as yet.

That would be done with an inverted picot

as I've explained in Spring Doily1

When you make the top ring for the second repeat, (it's a floating ring off the last chain)

Turn the work and start with the 8-8 chain with the pink thread (or shuttle1 thread)as the core.

The ring turns down on its own....

The next confusing part is where to make the join when you come up on the second repeat.

At the top is the LJ made into the thread marked with red in the pic

(I'm not finding appropriate words to explain it!)

The pink thread (shuttle 1) now automatically is in the position for the chain to be continued with the purple thread (shutte 2 )at the core.

I hope I've made things a little easier with this picture tutorial!

Here's a pic of the finished Pink&Purple Spring Doily-2

Done by ME

in Anchor size-20

with frontside -backside tatting

Thanks once again.

A heart, a request & a peep.....

2010-03-19T08:08:00.001+05:30

HEART

Sring Heart, maybe?

Derived from the pattern of

Spring Doily-2.

I think it's quite visible in the pattern diagram itself!

Just added a chain all around.

Thank You all for the response to my two litlle Doilies.

I feel I really need to see the patterns tatted by someone else,

maybe to know for sure that the pattern is right.

(and definitely to bask in the glory of somebody else tatting my pattern!)

Could I please have someone test tat them for me?

If someone does,

send me an e-mail or leave a comment at this post

and I'll get back to you.

Thanks in advance!

And now for the peep!

Here's a peep into my current project......

I hope to finish this by

1st April-TATTING DAY

Luv U All

SeeYa soon!

Another one!

2010-03-17T14:28:00.003+05:30

I'm really in the springy mood I guess!

So...

Here's another one of the spring tattings

And

The Pattern!

TA..DA....

Click on the picture to enlarge it

or on widget to get the pdf

Spring Doily-2 & S...

Hosted by eSnips

Spring Doily

2010-03-13T09:29:00.003+05:30

I promised that my next post is going to be tatting,

And this is what I came up with.....

And here's the pattern....

Wind Two shuttles-CTM

Ring 14-14

(rw)

Ch20, vsp, 2nd stitch of ds, 2nd stitch of ds,

(this makes the chain turn)

continue to ch16, join to picot of ring

ch 10

Place marker thread on core thread

ch10-6

Place 2nd marker on core thread

ch6-3-6

join at 2nd marker place

(core thread to core thread)

(To create space between the stitches for the join pull on the marker thread a little, remove the marker thread and join. Insert hook in the space created, pull up a loop of the core thread & pull the shuttle through the loop)

( I used a thread as a marker but definitely you can use a safety-pin or a paper-clip)

ch6-10, Join at 1st marker.

ch10-16, Join at vsp of 1st chain

SLT

ch20,

rw,

Ring 14, join to picot on last chain, 14, close ring,

rw,

ch20,

Repeat from * to *

In the subsequent repeats make a join at the the place for the 1st picot of 6-3-6 to the 2nd picot of the previous 6-3-6 ch.

And join the chain while coming up to the picots as in the picture below

The next ring is joined to the last picot on the ch 10-16

Make 10 repeats

and in the last repeat join to the picots as you come up the work,

ch20, cut and tie at the top of the 1st ring, hide ends.

Abbreviations

CTM- continuous thread method

ch-Chain

vsp- Very small picot

ds- Double stitch

rw/RW- Reverse work

- picot

SLT- Shoe lace trick

I hope you like what I've made.

Do try it out.

I've written the pattern just off-hand and I know that it's bound to have some mistakes.....

feel free to point them out.

Now I'm really really late for work, I'll have to run!

SeeYa!

P.S

Spring Doily pdf for download

Spring Doily.pdf

Hosted by eSnips

Looking back at the winters

2010-03-09T12:49:00.002+05:30

Aaaaah....

Spring is here!

Winter is gone

and so are my days of knitting.

I'm back to tatting!

It seems like such small and fine work after working with woolly yarns,

but I'm definitely in the spring-y mood

and so do I feel when tatting.

***

I've been away from my blog for sooo....long!

And, though I've been making stuff,

I've not put forth any posts.

I believe I've been busy!

But, now that I look back,

busy with-don't know what!!!!!

Well, whatever,

To compensate for all that,

I've put together everything

(except the froggs and what I've already posted, of course!)

into a slide show.

I hope you enjoy it.

.
Most of these projects and the details have been posted on
Ravelry.
on my page.

The next post is going to be tatting,

I promise.

Finally...

2010-01-24T10:42:00.000+05:30

I decided upon the mobile for my car.

It's the RED & BLACK motif

done with red and gold beads

and

finished up with some decoupage glue.

The glue has given it a nice stiffness and shine.

(it's the 1st time I've tried it on my tatting)

There has been so much fog

for the past 10 days or so,

we've hardly had any sunshine through-out the day.

Yesterday it opened up

and the sunshine through the mobile looked beautiful.

Happy New Year

2010-01-21T17:29:00.001+05:30

Happy new year to all!

I've had a wonderful start to my new year..

My Hubby Darling gifted me a

CAR

I had been driving around in my

Matiz

for nearly 10 years.

Now I have a Brand New

HONDA JAZZ

I've even replaced the original tyres for the wow looking

alloy wheels with wider and taller tyres.

I LOVE IT.

THANK YOU VICKY

Now I'm dying to make something for it

Something to hang inside....

Yes,

It has to be tatting!

It undeniably has to look like my car!

Maybe this...

or this...

or...

It definitely has to be in

red and black.

Whenever and whatever I finalize on

I'll keep you updated.

*#######*

Have so much more to talk about.....

Sometime later though!

Till then....

LOVE and PEACE