Exotic Dot Picots

Hi friends

The Dot Picots and the Dot Picot Strings are so fascinating that I have been trying to include them in different patterns.

Here is a star flower and a split ring braid.

Close up of Star Flower using Dot Picot String.

All chains in the outer round have a mock ring in center.

The mock ring is a string of four Dot picots close to each other.

Close up of Dot Picot Split Ring braid.

Amazing  appearance of dot picots as woven beads in this braid.

My single shuttle creations- application of Dot Picot Strings

Tiny Diamond Motif

Small rings with different picot lengths shaped like a flower are joined with dot picot string.

Dot Picot Trio motif-

Each trefoil petal is encircled with dot picot string. A mock ring of dot picot string is tatted at center of each petal.

Are you too getting crazy tatting Dot Picots????

Try few and share with us.

I welcome suggestions, comments and queries from all.

Happy Tatting………...

The Bond of Love!!!!!!

Hello friends,

Our Indian festival of RakshaBandhan kept me busy this year. Its significance is the Bond of Love between Brother and Sister. Where the sister shows her love by tying silk thread on the wrist of her loving brother, in response to her love brother takes vow to take care of her in times of difficulties.

I thought of converting my tatting into pretty Rakhis i.e. a type of bracelet made of silk threads. My family members and friends too appreciated and liked them. I put in all my efforts to make the best Rakhis.

Here I am sharing some Rakhis with you. Each Rakhi is a fully tatted piece, the center and the cord for tying knot. I made center part using tatted motifs and cords using different types of tatted laces.

The first image above shows two clovers joined with an embellishment in the center.

The image on right side is made of split rings and bead in the center method.

Look at the attached brown cords at both ends of the motif.

Its tatted with Lock Chain Stitch. I love the beautiful effect it gives.

Some more unique creations are posted below.

Each one is tatted with the same above technique but with different types of cord patterns.

Tatted motifs tatted from my Tatting Group's Theme  are used in Rakhis below......

I am sure you all would love to see more of my Rakhis.

Pl visit my FaceBook Page- Ushas Creations

Feel free to ask for any pattern you would like to try out.

Coming up with my passion for Gift envelopes soon ...... next blog post.

Till then  HAPPY TATTING .....

My Single Shuttle Laces

Tatting is a creative world!!!! Thanks everyone for positive response for My Single Shuttle Motifs.

Here I am sharing few of my own designs of single shuttle lace patterns with brief descriptions of each technique or effect used. These innovative ideas have come out of my Tatting Group's Single shuttle challenge. I would be happy to share patterns if anyone likes to try out my designs. Kindly email me for the same.

While tatting single shuttle laces, the only option was to tat rings in a row with or without bare thread. I thought of  replacing this bare thread using Dot Picots. I visualized lot of potential lying in the tiny ring of one double stitch. The Dot Picots can be used in many ways to make tatted pieces more ornamental.

I tatted six dot picots close to each other on the shuttle thread and it looked like a beaded string.

While moving over to next ring in a simple lace, one can replace the bare thread, which is used to leave some space to avoid overlapping, with this string of Dot Picots .

1.Laces with Dot Picot Strings: I was obsessed with replacing the bare thread with dot picot strings and created some unique patterns  using normal rings, onion rings, dots, trefoils, roll-tatted rings. You can just zoom in to see each one.

2. Laces with Half Closed Rings: This technique is commonly used but Brown lace is tatted with little variation. The half closed rings are tatted in between the normal rings with lacy picots. The light brown is trefoil of half closed rings.

3. Laces using vsps: These laces are tatted with very small picots which are frequently used for joining rings or chains. All four laces are tatted using vsp(very small picot) technique and not by SSSR (Single Shuttle Split Rings), where the shuttle thread is lock joined from back side to tat another ring in same direction. 

4. Simple laces with and without picots: Simple laces on left are made with variation in picot gauge and variation in double stitches showing the bare thread giving delicate look. On the right side, some laces are tatted with normal rings, some with Josephine  rings, all without picots.

5. Laces with Inverted picots and cross picots: In green lace each ring has three inverted picots, two short inverted picots on either sides and one long inverted picot in middle.  All three picots are  lock joined after closing the ring, giving shape of coins. In this lace, long Picots can be replaced by beads. In the orange lace, long picots are joined diagonally to the next ring.

All above lace patterns are created by me out of restriction of using only one shuttle as per the Theme of my Tatting Group. 

Hope you like them all. 

Posting my group members work on laces soon..........

All your comments, suggestions, queries are welcome.