Button Ornament Series No. 3

Thia time, I am using a button for No. 3 and making a square.

1. The button is 2.2cm
2. The thread is Olympus Gold Special.
3. This design is made up of four rounds.
1. All rounds are tatted with shuttle and ball.
2. Round 1 are all chains attached to the button with lock joins, three joins to a button hole.
3. Each ring at the four outer corners are SCMR (self-closing mock rings). Click on the link for a video tutorial for SCMR if you are not familiar with the technique.

JS Doily 1 Update

Tatting the button ornaments is taking some time away from my Jan Stawasz's Doily 1.  I don't really mind that because the doily is a long-term project which I consider as something to fill my time when I am not creating new designs.

I am in the middle of Round 9 and it is now 38cm wide. I couldn't get a nice picture of the full doily so here is part of it.

I have also been crocheting during this pandemic.  I started on a Scheepjees CAL by Christina of the blog A Spoonful of Yarn called d'Histoire Naturelle. I decided to do the CAL to use up my yarn stash and stop when the yarn stash run out.  And it did before I completed the CAL.

There were six parts of the CAL. I managed to reach Part 6, but I had to omit some rounds to finish off mine.  Here is the photo of my final lap-rug, measuring 96cm square. The full size would have about 10cm more to it if I had had enough yarn.

I am very happy with this even though I was not able to do all the rounds.

Button Ornaments No. 2

This is the second button ornament, of what I hope will be a series of designs.

Ferris Wheel Ornaments

 Facebook tatting community has be bedazzled by ornaments tatted with buttons as the main focus, thanks to Diane, the Lace-loving Librarian who kick-started it. I couldn't resist and had to join in.

Even though the main focus is buttons, I just had to try it with something different.

I have a lot of flat disks with a hole in the centre, slightly more than 2cm diameter, that I have been scratching my brain thinking of ways to use them in my tatting.  Finally, I came up with something to share. I am naming this Ferris Wheel ornament.

I found out that they are called donut beads.

Round 1

With Round 2 added

The stitch count for the ornament is given in the photo below.  Round 2 requires two shuttles.

Lockdown Tatting

I have been working on this doily since May this year.  It is a Jas Stawasz pattern, Doily 1 from his book Tatting Theory and Patterns.  I needed a long term project and this seems to be the biggest that I can find to fill my time during the various stages of the lockdown which has been in place since March this year.  

(There is another project from a Japanese tatting book that would need my full concentration but I am not ready for that one yet, :))

This is the status of the doily as at Round 7; there are 15 rounds in all.

After I started on Round 8, I discovered a mistake two rounds down, in Round 6, that I had to do a bit of tatting surgery to fix.

Thankfully it was not a difficult fix and it saved me from re-doing two rounds. 

Round 8 is moving along smoothly and I will share that in another post.