Sunday 23 February 2014

60 inches and counting

After the 46 inches of tatting in size 40 thread for my mob cap  I've gone back to the same #16 variegated brown thread that I was using about 16 months ago and made 60 inches of tatting in a shorter time. 

I'd forgotten how fast tatting progresses with this size of thread although with a thicker thread you can't get as long a length on the shuttle so the joins come up faster -  I get 8 inches per bobbin using my silent tatter so that's usually at least one join per evening.

This is probably going to trim a Victorian-style skirt as I have another length in the same thread and pattern from when I was practicing consistency with the other piece from 16 months ago. The only problem is that back since then I found I had to reduce the tension in my tatting in order to get rings to close when using size 40 thread which means there's quite a difference in the widths of the old and new pieces. so I'll have to make some special sections where I deliberately change the tension over the space of a few inches to link the two pieces together, or tat enough this time to go all the way around the skirt and use the other piece somewhere else.

This thread is called Puppets Eldorado and is made by coats.

This weekend I've also tatted around 2 jewellery findings but I haven't finished off the loose threads yet so those still need to be photographed.

Sunday 2 February 2014

Tat It And See day 10

Day 10 of this year's first TIAS. So far we have 2 pieces but still no idea what it might be.


If you don't know what I'm talking about,  the Tat it and See blog is here: tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk