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

 

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.......... 

Tatting along the Guchhas!!!!

Another great day for Indian Tatting Group 'Happy Tatters' !!!
There was an overwhelming response from enthusiastic tatters for a tat along pattern of.........
                                     Guchha Earrings . 
The tat along session was taken up by our most loving senior tatter Madhur .
She has her own unique style of explanation and demonstration.

Each participant came up with lovely combination of threads and beads.

First Session entries 

Second Session postings 

Specially clicked close up of Guchhas with sequins by Smita 

Sujatha tatted Guchhas with graded rings on Vandana's suggestion. That came out fabulous too. 

I thank all my tatter friends for their wholehearted participation🙏

So do you also feel like tatting the Guchhas now??????😃

Do mail me your experiments and variations.

And yes, your comments and suggestions too. 

🔶🔶🔶HAPPY TATTING 🔶🔶🔶

Beaded beauties

Lanyards are tatted using 1,2 mm glass beads with single shuttle. I have tried to tat rings of 3 and 4 double stitches as per bead size. These rings are snugged in such a way that they resemble the consecutive real glass bead.

The Dark Blue and the red lanyards are tatted using 1mm beads with rings of 3ds and the Sky Blue 2mm beads with rings of 4ds.

This Black lanyard with white transparent glass beads is currently in progress. These are 1mm beads with rings of 3ds.

Close up of the work

Happy Tatting................😀

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……………….

Wear them on to your spects.....

Hi all

Back again and sharing my new lanyard patterns with you. Earlier I posted patterns with split rings and beads in My Lanyards. When it was discovered that the Dot Picots can be tatted on bare thread, I tatted  laces on a single shuttle. The same method of stringing Dot Picots is used for spectacle strings, all tatted in Anchor thread no.20. You can zoom in on my working pics for a closer view.

Lanyard No 1

A Combination of Split Rings, Dot Picot String and crystal bead is used in this lanyard. The cocktail colour crystal goes well with lighter shade of the thread. As seen in close up pic below, the crystal bead is strung and dot picot strings are tatted individually on each shuttle in between two split rings alternatively.

Lanyard 2

A dark purple thread with white crystal used in this lanyard. The crystal strung in middle of the Dot Picot Strings gives a different design pattern.

Lanyard No 3

Here the variation is in beads too.  Two tiny maroon beads on both sides of each golden bugle bead are arranged to avoid the latter from cutting through the thread. Small split rings of 2/2 ds tatted on either side of beads and Dot Picot strings.

Lanyard No 4

Yellow transparent big beads contrasting with thread color blue. Dot Picot Strings are followed by the bead and split ring.

Dot picots in tatting are very convenient to use anywhere and in any application. Why not try them now?

Happy Tatting........