First piece of tatting trim that I've actually attached to clothing!

I've been rather quiet on this blog lately but that's because I've been busy making things...

I've made a pair of bloomers as part of a Victorian/Edwardian style swim suit and decided to do some tatting to trim the legs. Here is one leg of the bloomers with the tatting sewn in place and the tatting for the other leg lying on top. I've used a size 16 thread because of the time constraints and also because the tatting is below my knees and going to be dunked in a swimming pool!

I chose this pattern because I wanted one where I could thread through a thin ribbon if necessary - I sketched out some ideas then went hunting through my books to see if I could find something similar and found this design from a  book in Japanese by "Sumie" so I don't know what the name of the pattern is! The book uses diagrams for the actual pattern so being able to read Japanese isn't necessary.  The book's title translates as "Japanese craft book "First tatting lace"#2153 (Lady boutique series 3215)"

I've also made a mob cap which I was going to trim with tatting but it didn't work with that particular style of mob cap so I'm going to make a second one and trim that.

The final part of the outfit is actually a very cheap blue and white striped dress from Primark!

In other news I've just bought my first pop a bobbin shuttle made by "im in the garage" via Jane Eborall's etsy shop. I think about 35 went up - by the time I got there 45 minutes later there were 9 left!