Remnant Squares

The squares that I posted earlier in this post have grown slightly bigger.

I am using remnants of size 20 thread for this.  I don't often use size 20, preferring size 40 instead.  There are a couple of remnant balls if size 20 which I may use.  There are enough thread for maybe one shuttle-full of each ball.  I can get six or seven motifs from one shuttle-full of thread.

It might just end up as a small mat or coaster.

Medallion from the past

 This is another past-date design.

A medallion that I designed sometime in 2017.  If it may look familiar  this was used as a centre for the Harmony doily. which came later.

2017 Snowflake

First of all, I know the name is past-date. 

I was cleaning up my files in my laptop and realised that I have not shared this snowflake pattern in my free-patterns list.  I think this was the time when my laptop had gone kaput and I stopped blogging for a while.  I am trying to catch up on things and this is one of those.

Enjoy!

Flowers of Spring

Updates on my projects>

First the Ruth Scharf project.

Since the patterns/designs in the Ruth Scharf book does not have a name, I decided to call this project Flowers & Leaves.  This is where I am at now.

I have made 4 sets of leaves and with flowers joining the four sets together.  There are three sizes to the flowers.  I have decided to use pastel variegated thread for the smallest of the three, with 6-rings centres. I want to go for a solid colour for the largest, with an 8-rings centre that will go in the middle. Have not decided whether to use the red or the yellow for this.

I have not picked a  colour for the medium size flower that has 7-rings centre, probably also in solid colour.

The centre flower will look like this,

This tan colour is a test piece. I had to adjust the stitch for the leaves because the original stitch count is not giving me a leaf that stay flat, they bowled up pretty badly.  It follows tha, I had to adjust the counts for all the flowers as well. I feel that it still requires slight adjustments

The work is laying reasonably flat right now and would need just a bit of pressing later.

Continuing ....

I have also joined the tat-along in Renulek's blog, Spring Doily 2023.

This is after four rounds.  Round 5 has been released but I have not started on it.

Looking at it now, I am thinking of starting over, changing the colours of rounds 1 & 2 to red and yellow as in Round 4. 

Or, start a new one with a different set of colours?

End-of-shuttle Thread

The 6-rings flower is the most frequently used motif to finish off balance if thread in a shuttle at the end of a project. Sometimes, there are remnant balls of thread that may not be enough even for a small motif.

The end result, if creating a mat,would be a six-sided round piece. 

I decided to make something that will end up as a square or rectangle rather than a circular one, and came up with this 8-rings motif.

These were tatted in size 20 and each motif is about an inch in size. I plan to add more in other colours should I have projects in size 20 again.

Flowers and Leaves

 I decided to do another Ruth Scharf project after completing Kesturi. 

I have tatted a Ruth Scharf design a few years ago and thought I'd give a go with another design. I picked a pattern from her second book 'Occhi - Neue Blatter', on page 30. 

This is the basic composition of the design, a set of four leaves and flower motifs surround it.  I decided to make the flowers in different colours, using threads that I have in my stash.

Below is where I am at this moment. There should be another set of four leaves at the bottom right which I am going to do next.

Aftetr the third set of leaves, I realised that it would be easier for me to do the leaves first and then make the flowers later and join them up. There will be another flower in the space in the middle of the four set of leaves, which I plan to use bright solid colour. I am thinking of deep yellow to signify the sun.

Now that understood the construction and assembly of this Ruth Scharf design, I fell  in to temptation and decided to join Renulek's Spring 2023 Tat-Along. I have completed the first two rounds and now waiting for the next part.