Sunrise over the Ocean

I have been working with my newly found effect of CWJ. During my recent visit to Andaman Islands, I watched a beautiful sunrise over blue crystal clear water with white foam over it. The bright rising sun and the waves of the ocean fascinated me. For the first time I felt like capturing the nature’s beauty into tatting art.

And surprisingly  it looked like a Sunrise over the Ocean ………………..

                                       

Tatting of long and short loops alternately with  lp_cwj  came out like rays of the bright rising sun.

Sharing below a step by step pictorial of working of the sunrise motif.

 Pic 1- Round1-  Started with a half closed Maltese ring with two shades of yellow. RW

Pic 2- Round 2- Short loops with lp_cwj in each picot on the first round. RW

Pic 3 - gives clear pic of short loops of alternate color after completion of the 2nd Round.
Pic 4- Round 3- Last round with both long and short loops as shown.The orange thread  is inserted with overlay method  to get real effect of the Sun.
                                 

The motif had to be blocked and stiffened to get the perfect shape of the Rising Sun.

The waves were tatted with chains of alternate (white and sky blue) colors by switching shuttles.

Before actually tatting the sunrise with real shades, I did one trial with half closed ring with cool purple shades, which looked like a rising sun of some other Galaxy.

lp_cwj  can do wonders. Still lot more to explore.

Kindly wait to see my new creations with lp_cwj in the next blog post.

I welcome your comments, likes, 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.............