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

 

The Magic of SRS

 Yellow Delight …..A Square motif tatted in one pass with.....

1. Split Rings Strings (SRS), a Braid of tiny split rings of (3/3) each,

 giving a beautiful string effect with contrast colours.

2. SSSR- A Single Shuttle Double Core Split Ring to climb out.

PDF Pattern Link : Yellow Delight 

Marie McCurry, Kathleen J Minniti, Sue Hanson offered to  test tat  the motif 

Yellow Delight.

The pattern was finalized after incorporating corrections suggested by the test tatters. 

Muskaan helped in the layout of the PDF pattern  with corrections in diagrams 

and few tatting terms.

Diagramming credit goes to……. 

Nirali Shah-Crafty Affairss from Happy Tatters Group 

Marie tatted the square in Lizbeth Thread Size 20 which measured 7.5cmX7.5cm. 

She beautifully added a string of split rings with a few seed beads to make a tassel 

to use as  a charm or a bookmark!

   

Same motif with light and dark background. Such a pretty work by Marie!!!!

“I finally took a decent picture, getting the light purple to turn out.  

This is a gorgeous pattern.  I'm so proud of you.  

I remember when you first started.”.....Marie

Kathleen tested the pattern with samples in different thread sizes in Lizbeth

Kathleen wrote: “the raw, unblocked piece did not lie flat, despite my using three 

different threads to try it. The middle part - round 1 - kept popping up into a little 

3-D box standing out from the other two rounds, which lay beautifully.”

 Trial-1 Purple and Leafy Greens in Liz 20 Unblocked

After blocking……

Test Tats for Yellow Delight by Usha

Kathleen wrote: “The samples above were worked in the following threads:  

Purple/Greens - Lizbeth size 20;  Pink/Beige - Cebelia size 30; 

multi Orange/Yellow/Black  - Lizbeth Twirlz size 20."

My pleasure!  I did work that sample I mentioned using rings of 6-6 for the inner

 layer only.  I had some Lizbeth size 40 that needed used up, so here it is:”

 Rings of 6 - 6  sample in size 40

“I did enjoy working this motif quite a bit - hence the multiple samples!  

I plan to glue them into greeting cards.” 

Lovely idea Kathleen!!

Sue could not try out the pattern due to her ill health. 

Muskaan helped me in finalizing the pattern. She meticulously checked the 

written instructions, diagrams and layout of the PDF pattern. 

Loads of thanks from my heart to……….

Marie, Kathleen, Sue, Nirali and Muskaan.

Would you like to tat this motif?? 

Do write your comments and share experience of tatting this pattern

                    HAPPY TATTING 

Strings to Square

Tatted Snowflakes shared in the earlier post and few bookmarks reached their destination…..Goa, India for the Noble Cause. 

Wishing all the Best to Kiran for the jumble sale on 8th November 2020.

Sharing here some more patterns with  Split Rings Strings effect.

 Snowflake-1A

 Snowflake-1B.....with 3rd round

Snowflake-2

Snowflake-3A.....graded split rings

 Snowflake-3B....a color variation

The Strings formed a square in Yellow Delight 

The pattern needs to be Test tatted..........

If you wish to test tat 'Yellow Delight',

Kindly mail me at shuttlecreation@gmail.com  

Thanking in advance.

HAPPY TATTING

Art of Overlaying......

Hi Friends

Recently found way of overlaying another color of thread while working on normal rings.

The yellow rings are encircled with overlaid clusters made of tiny Dot Picots and Dot Picot Strings. You can see the innermost part of the motif tatted with Dot Picot Strings at the base of yellow rings.

The members of my Indian Tatters Group viz. Aparna, Vrinda, Seema, Vandana enjoyed tatting this motif.

Diane confirmed my written pattern and tried Dot Picots.

Aparna responded quickly

Seema tatted with one extended petal with stunning combination.

Variation by Vrinda, another brilliant tatter in my group.

She restricted the motif to four petals, forming a perfect square.

Muskaan has helped me immensely in finalising the PDF with all her expertise in tatting knowledge and experience. Thank you so much Muskaan!!!

There are two separate pictorials in PDF. One for the steps for the blue cluster on yellow rings and the other for the overall working of the motif.

Hope you all will find it easy with the detailed PDF pattern.

PDF Pattern here -Encircled Charm

I learned from Georgia that overlaying effect is same as Muskaan explained in her blog as Ikuta Picots.

IKUTA PICOTS
                                       

Encircled Charm is a variation of this effect.

Many patterns popped up while tatting my tiny motif ‘Encircled Charm’.

These were tatted with normal picots leaving bare thread space between the rings.

Hope you all shall enjoy working with Dot Picots and overlaying too.

Kindly do write your comments, suggestions and/or queries.

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 .....