Delighful Effects of CWJ

Dear friends, keeping in mind the soon approaching Indian festival of Rakshabandhan,

I found some new ways to use tatted motifs for ‘Rakhis’. Rakhis are basically bracelets

made with silk threads in vibrant colors. A sister ties Rakhi on the wrist of her brother to

show her true love. Rakshabandhan is a festival of love and  joy.

My focus was on Catherine wheel join (CWJ) technique while tatting new Rakhi motifs

and these are the designs I came up with.

1. The Chocolatees…....

The chains in second round in these motifs are joined with CWJ.
The effect of the CWJ can be seen with clarity of picot in the first round.

2. The simple yet elegant……

The white shiny thread gives an elegant look. The joins are made with CWJ.

3. The bare thread delight…...

Here’s a variation of color for the same pattern. I am happy to share this new effect of

bare thread over the rings and CWJ. Many tatters hate bare the thread idea but I am

sure that they too shall love this effect. I will share the pattern in my next post.

4. Dot Picot Delight....

Simple motif with six rings with single color. Join contrast color for the next round using 

Dot Picot String on upper part of each Ring joined with CWJ 

5. Variation with BareThread…….

Bare thread and two CWJs on each ring with and without beads.

6. Sandwiching the bare thread….

In the above two, one more round of chains with and without picots is added over the bare thread. 

The strings of all Rakhis are tatted with different techniques like Lock Chain Stitch, Pearl Tatting, Shoe Lace Trick etc.

Kindly post your views, comments, suggestions here.

HAPPY TATTING……………….

The Joining Effect!!!

I am happy to share Charming Frills, the stunning effect created out of the combination of Long Picot(LP) and Catherine Wheel Join(CWJ).

The idea of this pendant  came up after tatting the basic onion ring in two colors. 

My first version was…....

Georgia’s Reaction after seeing the pic was…...

“OH how intriguing! I see a vague resemblance to needle lace and frisaso de valladolid but I have not seen in tatting as far as I can remember.”

 She found some resemblance to needle lace because of the frilly look of the pendant.

Muskaan helped me to find references of the effects of long picots tatted by other tatters. I started writing the pattern for the pendant with her. We both had lots of discussions online for naming this frill effect. Finally I used the notation lp_cwj for the presentation purpose. Layered long picots with Contrasting thread colors added beauty to the tatted pendant. The long picots tatted in multiples in consecutive layers gave beautiful frilled edging. This combo of Long Picot and CWJ can be used as a filler, multi-tiered, or as a frill/fringe.

Other joins like

1)    Catherine Wheel Join in Round 2

2)     Alligator Join in Round 3

3)     Picot Join in Round 4  

have been used along with other techniques like Thrown Ring, Split Chain, Shoe Lace Trick and Switching Shuttles to tat in one pass.

Picot on the thrown ring can be used to add a jump ring, a pendant hook or an earring finding.

Working of this joining effect - lp_cwj is shown in the pic below.

This frilled pendant is tatted in five rounds. Rounds 1-3 are worked in clockwise direction; round 4 moves from left to right and Round 5 moves from right to left, when seen from the front.

The detailed PDF Pattern Link - Charming Frills with step by step pics.

Its important to note the working of round 5, where we have to make the joins through the orange bars seen on backside. Insert a crochet hook through the orange bar from behind, pull up a loop to proceed.

Loads of thanks to Muskaan for test tatting Charming Frills and the immense help in finalizing the pattern. Kindly check her blog  to see her version of Charming Frills.

Using the same effect of lp_cwj, I tatted a medallion- Fringed Petals

I invite tatters to test tat this medallion.

kindly e-mail me - shuttlecreation@gmail.com

Feel free to post your comments , suggestions here.

HAPPY TATTING .......always.............