4 of a kind

..... not quite .....

While browsing through some of Miss Norma Benporath's patterns in the Trove site, I came across this set of patterns.

Though, poker was not what Miss Benporath had in mind when she designed this.  I am not a cardplayer myself, but the designs are simple and easy enough that I just had to tat them.

If you want to tat them yourselves, the pattern was published on 15 February 1939 in the article New Linen for the Bridge Table.  All are tatted with shuttle-and-ball except for the 4-leaf clover in the centre of the diamond which is shuttle-only.

Housekeeping

I have been doing some blog housekeeping, which is long overdue, I must say.  I decided to merge my two tatting blogs together.

I created a different blog for my free patterns but I have been neglecting it for some time now.  I have been late in reading the comments left there, too.  Since there aren't that many posts in there, it would be easier for me to just manage one blog for all my tatting.  The patterns blog will be there for a while, but I will eventually delete it.

I have moved all the free patterns that were there before and placed them in different pages by category into this blog.  The categories are shown in the tabs right on top, below the blog header.

I have not gone through to check the links of the imported posts.  If you come across any broken link, please let me know and I will verify them again.

Thank you for supporting me and my tatting.  It has been a wonderful adventure thus far, and will continue to be so until my eyes or hands fail me.

NB Edging from 8 April 1937 - revised.

I read Ladytats' comment to the earlier post and is reproduced here;

Ladytats11 May 2013 05:38

just curious, and looking at old pattern pictures is sometimes difficult, but I don't think that one set of rings in the picture are tre-foils.

On left side just above the corner is the clearest, and to me it looks like ring~ring~chain~Ring joined to prev row~ch~ring joined to previous row~ring~ch joined to prev ch and to previous ring~ch~ring~ring (which is back to the beginning of the repeat.)

I took a good look at the original picture and can see that there is a chain between the two rings that is joined to Row 2, but that part was missing from the instructions. Here is the original image which I downloaded from the site,

I tatted Row 3 again but made some changes to the stitch count in the chains.  I also added the missing link, but only guesstimated the stitch count since it was not given in the pattern.  

The one I tatted earlier is on the right, and the revised version is at the bottom.  I reduced the stitch count in the chains by 6ds, and added 9ds for the missing chain.  I also joined the 3rd chain to the 5th chain to make Row 3 a bit sturdier. I like it better this way.