Tetradill - a square motif

 I was travelling in Xi'an, China and saw designs of pavement tiles that I like. This design was inspired by one of the tiles.

The photo below shows four squares joined together, tatted in a solid colour.

Arches - Bookmark

 Updating the blog with another design from 2019, Arches Bookmark.

Bakawali -motif

 Updating my gallery with another motif that I tatted a while ago, 2019 to be exact.

Muskaan M's DAL (Design Along)

I accepted the challenge by Muskaan M inviting tatters to join her Design Along (DAL) where she posted the design for the first two rounds and we are to continue from there with our own designs.

You can read all about it in her blog here, https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/

This is my contribution to the DAL.

(I should learn to take better photos of my tatting)

The chart below.

The first two rounds in light pink are Muskaan's. You can get a clearer instructions of the two rounds from Muskaan's blog (link given above).

I have added the third round, in blue. The third round is worked with two shuttles.

Blog Update

 Hello tatters who have been following this blog.

After much thought, I have decided to reactivate this blog with some changes made to it.

From now on, I will use this blog only to share my free tatting patterns.

(All other posts that are already here will remain for now but any new blog posts will be about my free patterns).

If you would still like to follow my tatting adventures and stories, you can find me here,

https://www.facebook.com/tatarenda.my or https://www.facebook.com/jon.yusoff3

Thank you and Happy Tatting.

"Adalia"

 This is the third try and final result of the project that I started earlier. This is a one-pass design, i.e. the tatting was not in rounds but instead done in one go, moving in from the point, down to the middle and out again, completing each point one by one.

(Read here, https://tatsaway.blogspot.com/2023/07/still-tatting-but-was-distracted.html)

All I can say is that it was not an easy tat. It took me three tries to get this done. Even then there are still mistakes in this final version but they are passable mistakes that do not affect the final design.

I started in early June. 

The first attempt was to get the feel of the stitch count.

The second try was to get the construction process, i.e. to find the better way to move form one element to another in the construction.

The techniques used are basic for shuttle tatting.  What made it a difficult one for me was non-existent of symmetry in certain parts of the design .  I have to keep looking back at the previous parts to see what the next element is. I had to make sure that the shuttles are in the correct working position after each turn, reverse work or flip.

I am not even sure how to write the pattern for this.  I don't feel that the diagram alone is going to be enough !

To relax my mind in between tatting, I doodled.  Here is what is on my sketchpad pad right now.  It is far from finished but the main shapes are there.  I plan to add in darker strokes and shadings, maybe.

Still Tatting but was Distracted

Her is an update on what has happened since my last post on designing.

This is what I had drawn with Inkscape.

Then I used my rings template to tat the piece.  You can barely make out the stitch counts that I used for the prototype, which is this yellow one,

As you can see, I did not finish it. This design is a one-pass design and I needed to see its shape at full circle. Overall it looked okay, but I see that I still have to adjust it here and there. And the result of that is this one below.

You can see the revised one superimposed over the chart, after I have made the changes.  There are mistakes in a couple of places, which is why I didn't bother to hide the thread end.

I should be working on the final version of this (hopefully with no more adjustments) but was distracted by beautiful doodles that I see fly past my FB feed.  So, I just had to give that a try. 

And, these are a couple that I feel happy enough to share. The bottom piece is a WIP.  Doodling is suppose to be calming and not be rushed.  I will share again when I have completely filled it up.