The TIAS is a .....

Booo..hoooo ... after looking at all the completed TIAS, my TIAS will remain a baldy..... and it is totally my fault. I am so ashamed to post the picture here ... but I will.. so that you'll all know that I did try. Here it is ... or what it turned out to be.

There are a few mistakes -
I am short of one split ring in the head part, so instead of rounded it became slightly elongated. Because of that too, the left arm is shorter than the right arm. And I ran out of the red thread so she ends up with one red hand and one green hand.

I improvised on the eyes because I don't have any beads larger than what I was using . Instead I used three beads together with blue in the centre. Now, doesn't she have the loveliest blue eyes.

Another thing different is the way the I join the rings on the second half of the split ring. In the pattern, Jane wrote to make a lock join. I assume a lock join will be to pull the working shuttle thread through the joining picot.

My method of joining is to pull the core thread through the joining picot and slide the working shuttle through the loop. The working shuttle thread is then pulled through the joining picot when I straighten the core thread. I then continue with the next double stitch of the split ring. Has anyone done it this way before? Is there a name for this type of join?

To make myself feel better after the boo-boo with the TIAS, I decided to stay away from shuttles for a while and crochet a bit. I finished this doily, all blocked, in over three days.


And my conclusion is - crochet whips up things faster than tatting. I wonder if you feel the same way...

This doily measures 13.5 inches across, mainly because I used a thicker crochet thread than the finer tatting thread. But considering that there are 18 rounds in it, it does crochet up very fast. I know it will take me ages to tat an 18-round doily, even if it is only using the basic rings-and-chains in the design.