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

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

Bookmark these daisies………

Tatters need to empty shuttles every time to take up new projects 

which may result in beautiful lace or motif patterns. 

My emptying shuttles resulted in…………………

First try with single variegated thread  

and another with two sold color threads.

My tatter friend Madhur reminded me that the motif which 

came up was exactly same as the first two rows of her Unending Doily. 

What a coincidence, she also tatted the doily to empty the shuttles. 

The first trial shows the bare thread over the center ring and shuttle 

join in each picot which are fairly visible.

In another attempt I used two solid colors where the pattern shows no 

bare thread nor any join. It was tricky to hide the bare thread 

and tat without joins.

Finally it ended up in Bloomrings Bookmark pattern 

Bloomrings Bookmark pattern - PDF 

This pattern is tatted with Hidden Picot method for rings and 

lock chain stitch method for joining the motifs.

Hidden Picot(HP) is a very very small picot, automatically made 

between the double stitches and hidden behind the thrown rings 

off the center ring.

From my Indian Happy Tatters Group, Magnus tried this pattern 

and came up with this attractive color combination.

This is not a test tatted pattern but hope you find it easy to tat.

Your valuable suggestions and comments are always welcome.

Wish you all……………..HAPPY TATTING..........