HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022

 Wishing all Tatters a lovely creative New Year 😀❤️

Both the Wings tatted in one pass separately and the body part with split rings.

Wonder if the whole butterfly pattern can be tatted in one pass with single shuttle?

Share if you can😁

Shaping Up with Rings.....1

The Only Rings…..

Sharing my experiments on shapes with tatting - Polygons using Single Shuttle. Each polygon has been tatted using ‘only rings’, Bare Thread to move forward and Clovers at each vertex in a circular way. Number of rings at the center decides the shape of a polygon. SR (Split Ring) with the thread left at the beginning of the round has been used to climb out to the next round. SSSR(Single Shuttle Split Ring) is another option. Any number of rounds can be added to this square by repeating the pattern to make a doily.

Polygon 1- Square having four sides and four vertices.

  Four rings at the center

 Marie MacCurry has Test Tatted the written pattern of ‘The Only Rings Square’

Thank You so much Marie for tatting this square and  

suggesting corrections in the PDF pattern.

Find PDF pattern here- The Only Rings Square

Four squares joined with a border

Sharing amazing work of this ‘Fun to Tat’ square pattern by

Indian Happy Tatters group members…...

     

 

 Aarti, Kavita, Geetha,  Vani, Swarna, Maria, Rekha, Shaila.

 

Jagruti and Padma tatted the square by hiding bare thread.

   

Front side : Bare Thread hidden                  Back Side    

Thank You everyone!!!!!

Polygon 2- Triangle- three sides and three vertices

   Three rings at the center

The basic pattern idea for my ‘The Only Rings Square’ has come from 

Madhur’s amazingly beautiful  Unending Doily. 

  

      Madhur’s Emptying shuttle project

Next post on some more polygons with Single Shuttle…

viz. Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon……

 HAPPY TATTING

 

BT Beauty

 Sharing a Bookmark pattern---- RADIANCE BOOKMARK

Tatted with Single Shuttle.

Clovers are joined with small rings,

leaving Bare Thread of 30 mm between each.

Find PDF pattern here: Radiance Bookmark 

Marie McCurry has been so kind and helpful to test tat the pattern.

She tatted this Bookmark in beautiful variegated Lizbeth thread.

The Bare Thread length of 30 mm as in the written pattern did not fit 

for Lizbeth thread due to the difference in the thread thickness.

A pictorial below has been added to the PDF pattern for determining 

proper Bare Thread length for different types of threads.

So when you start the Radiance Bookmark pattern, kindly check the 

Bare Thread length for your choice of thread.

Marie re-tatted the Radiance Bookmark using BT length calculation on 

my request.

And the result came out exactly as per the original pattern.

Loads of thanks to Marie😘

Dot Picot Version

The Bare Thread in the Radiance Bookmark pattern replaced by 

Dot Picot Strings.

Video on How to tat Dot Picot String here-Dot Picot String

Other variations……

 In variegated Thread Size 20

In anchor Size 20 with tail variation

Hope you all enjoy tatting this pattern.

Happy Tatting

The Magic of SRS

 Yellow Delight …..A Square motif tatted in one pass with.....

1. Split Rings Strings (SRS), a Braid of tiny split rings of (3/3) each,

 giving a beautiful string effect with contrast colours.

2. SSSR- A Single Shuttle Double Core Split Ring to climb out.

PDF Pattern Link : Yellow Delight 

Marie McCurry, Kathleen J Minniti, Sue Hanson offered to  test tat  the motif 

Yellow Delight.

The pattern was finalized after incorporating corrections suggested by the test tatters. 

Muskaan helped in the layout of the PDF pattern  with corrections in diagrams 

and few tatting terms.

Diagramming credit goes to……. 

Nirali Shah-Crafty Affairss from Happy Tatters Group 

Marie tatted the square in Lizbeth Thread Size 20 which measured 7.5cmX7.5cm. 

She beautifully added a string of split rings with a few seed beads to make a tassel 

to use as  a charm or a bookmark!

   

Same motif with light and dark background. Such a pretty work by Marie!!!!

“I finally took a decent picture, getting the light purple to turn out.  

This is a gorgeous pattern.  I'm so proud of you.  

I remember when you first started.”.....Marie

Kathleen tested the pattern with samples in different thread sizes in Lizbeth

Kathleen wrote: “the raw, unblocked piece did not lie flat, despite my using three 

different threads to try it. The middle part - round 1 - kept popping up into a little 

3-D box standing out from the other two rounds, which lay beautifully.”

 Trial-1 Purple and Leafy Greens in Liz 20 Unblocked

After blocking……

Test Tats for Yellow Delight by Usha

Kathleen wrote: “The samples above were worked in the following threads:  

Purple/Greens - Lizbeth size 20;  Pink/Beige - Cebelia size 30; 

multi Orange/Yellow/Black  - Lizbeth Twirlz size 20."

My pleasure!  I did work that sample I mentioned using rings of 6-6 for the inner

 layer only.  I had some Lizbeth size 40 that needed used up, so here it is:”

 Rings of 6 - 6  sample in size 40

“I did enjoy working this motif quite a bit - hence the multiple samples!  

I plan to glue them into greeting cards.” 

Lovely idea Kathleen!!

Sue could not try out the pattern due to her ill health. 

Muskaan helped me in finalizing the pattern. She meticulously checked the 

written instructions, diagrams and layout of the PDF pattern. 

Loads of thanks from my heart to……….

Marie, Kathleen, Sue, Nirali and Muskaan.

Would you like to tat this motif?? 

Do write your comments and share experience of tatting this pattern

                    HAPPY TATTING 

Strings to Square

Tatted Snowflakes shared in the earlier post and few bookmarks reached their destination…..Goa, India for the Noble Cause. 

Wishing all the Best to Kiran for the jumble sale on 8th November 2020.

Sharing here some more patterns with  Split Rings Strings effect.

 Snowflake-1A

 Snowflake-1B.....with 3rd round

Snowflake-2

Snowflake-3A.....graded split rings

 Snowflake-3B....a color variation

The Strings formed a square in Yellow Delight 

The pattern needs to be Test tatted..........

If you wish to test tat 'Yellow Delight',

Kindly mail me at shuttlecreation@gmail.com  

Thanking in advance.

HAPPY TATTING

Stringing the Snowflakes.....

Split Rings Strings…. A new look to Christmas Decor

Kiran Thakur, a member of our Indian Happy Tatters Group, invited fellow tatters to contribute towards a Fund Raiser. Madhur...our group's most senior and passionate tatter, inspired everyone to tat Christmas Decor items for this Noble Cause. The proceeds from the sale of these tatted articles would be donated to the Welfare of the Animals in Goa, India. 

‘Snowflakes tatting’ theme captured the mind of every tatter in the group... a good opportunity to display tatting of snowflakes, crosses and medallions. Various tatting techniques were shared and learnt in the group.  Overflowing enthusiasm of each member is an inspiration to tat more and create new patterns. 

Sharing my snowflakes creations tatted with Anchor 20 ……..

My first attempt was using .Dot Picot Strings 

1) Dot Picot Snowflake…..measures 12x12cms.

2)  IcyCrystal Snowflake……measures 11cms in diameter

Snowflakes Patterns (From No. 3 to No.9)- 

Strings of tiny (3/3) Split Rings.....

 replacing the normal chains and Dot Picot Strings

3) Elegance in White - measures 5.5cms in diameter

4) Power of Elegance …..measures 13cms in diameter 

 Lark’s Head Join in all ring joins

5) Star Snowflake…...measures 11.5cms in diameter

6) Dainty Looks…..measures 7.5cms in diameter

Split Rings Strings used differently in Pattern 7 and 8

7) Chakra Snowflake1…….measures 8.5cms in diameter

8) Chakra Snowflake2 measures 9cms in diameter

Difference in shape because of interchanging colors of split rings.

9) Lacy Snowflake….measures 8cms in diameter

Split Rings Strings with one sided picots for lacy looks

 and many more variations can be tatted………

Hope you enjoy tatting this new effect of Split Rings Strings.

HAPPY TATTING