Perfetti Elegant

Do you remember those lovely snowflakes by Robin Perfetti I made recently?  Well, she's done it again!  This time it's a beautiful square motif (and everyone knows I love squares!) which instantly appealed to me the moment I saw it.

It is called Woodland Medallion.

Elegant, that's what I think.

Robin works with an app on her iPad to design shapes which she then translates into tatting patterns.  Clever isn't it?  And she obviously has an eye for lovely shapes!

The motif is tatted in size 20 thread and uses a 14x16 finding in the sample on her pattern but as you can see this square finding works great too.

Best wishes,

Frivole

Not Being Idle!

Phew, I can't believe nearly a week has gone by since my last post!  I haven't made loads of progress on the doily but ended up doing more wrist warmers for friends and also got my knitting out!  Spring is in the air and I don't really knit in warm weather so I thought I should try to move on a bit with this cardigan I've had on the needles for some time already (and which some of you have seen before I'm sure!).

I started joining other ladies at the local wool shop on a Saturday and it's really nice to have a knit and a natter with like-minded people who enjoy talking about wool, and crochet, and colours, and other crafty endeavours.

As always, I have too many projects on the go and my previous Fair Isle cardigan was also a while in the making but that's ok.  I get there eventually!

Flora Jacket designed by Alice Starmore

This looks kinda red and green from

a distance, doesn't it?

But what I love about Fair Isle is

the amazing mix of colours

which you can see better in the photo below.

There's purple and teal and orange

and green and cerise and different mixes

of sandy and pebbly colours.

Wonderful.

 This was the pattern and colours on my previous Fair Isle.

(just in case some of you wondered…)

Hope everyone's having a nice weekend.

Best wishes,

Frivole

Doily Progress

I've completed the 5th round.  Those double rings don't always want to lie nicely next to each other.  Lots of small rings on the next one… on the next two rounds in fact.  I better get moving!

Round 1 :  English Rose Dk

Round 2:  Harvest Orange Med

Round 3:  Violet/Pink Med

Round 4:  Magenta Dk

Round 5:  Coral Orange Med

I had started the 6th round but didn't like the colour.  I'm madly trying to have a different colour for each round but they need to, hopefully!, still go together!  Don't know yet how many rounds I'll have to keep this up for.

My wrist warmers proved popular with a couple of my friends.  I adjusted the pattern to make smaller scallops which I think are more lacy and pretty.The red pair (which is not finished and not quite as red IRL) will be for me.  I am enjoying wearing them.

Best wishes,

Frivole

Heart Interlude

Nearly done with the fifth round of Renulek's doily but saw this little heart on my travels and had to stop and tat it straight away.  A new one for my collection.  I like it.  Quick to tat.  And here's the link to the page where the pattern can be found.  It's in Japanese but there are diagrams (click on the orange "pdf" button on the bottom right of the page which will take you to the pattern, scroll down, the pattern is on the third page!).

Rather sweet, no?

Tatted in Karey Solomon's Early Rising

Best wishes,

Frivole

Round Four

Two more to go and I'll be up to date!  

Round 1 :  English Rose Dk

Round 2:  Harvest Orange Med

Round 3:  Violet/Pink Med

Round 4:  Magenta Dk

Oops, I should have sewn my ends in before scanning it…

I ended up running out of thread and doing quite an awkward joining in of new thread.  I don't know why it went wrong but I don't think it will be too noticeable in the big picture.

Onwards?

Best wishes,

Frivole

Round Three

I'm catching up!  I completed the third round which had quite a bit of work in it but rounds 4 and 5 will be a bit quicker so I'm getting there.

Round 1 :  English Rose Dk

Round 2:  Harvest Orange Med

Round 3:  Violet/Pink Med

I had doubts when I started this round in my chosen colour and nearly started again in a different one.  But I decided to keep going and now that I've completed it, I like it.

Now for the next round…. ??

Best wishes,

Frivole

Renulek Doily - Round Two

I was inspired by Sally's colourful version and decided to veer away from my usual blues for something a bit different.

Here is the second round completed:

Threads will be all Lizbeth

Round 1 :  English Rose Dk

Round 2:  Harvest Orange Med

Best wishes,

Frivole