Wednesday 9 November 2016

Étoile du Nord

This is the design that came to me last week.  Funny how things happen in twos sometimes...  Last year was the same as I made Bentley just after finishing Snowdrop.

It seems I faffed for ages with Crystal Star but this one popped into my head and the idea translated into the actual tatted star quite well.  Well, it's not exactly as my initial sketch but it fell into place as I started tatting it.

I was still thinking of crystals and beads and how to incorporate them into designs.  Something a bit different if possible.  Instead of just in the centre, I thought I'd have them going up the arms of the star this time.  I made the first one with crystals and then I thought I'd try with pearls (as in the mocha sample).  I rather like the look with pearls for a change.

The white sample was the first one and I was still playing with stitch count and picots so it's less uniform than the mocha one.

I liked Polaris as a name (a suggestion from a few blogposts ago) but I did a quick search and found that my friend Robin has used that name for one of her designs so I think I'm going to go with "Étoile du Nord" if there are no objections to that name.



Best wishes,
Frivole

34 comments:

  1. Very pretty ! And I also see a happy figure in the white one, if the 'head' is flattened ;-)
    Nice pattern.

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  2. Those are totally elegant and awesome!!!!!!!!!! :)

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  3. Beautiful and elegant lovely design, I like the pearls in the arms.
    Great name hope you can keep it for this snowflake

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  4. Perfect! It's gorgeous. Did you know that "l'étoile du nord" is the motto of Minnesota? : )

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    1. How lovely! No, I didn't know. :-)

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    2. Oh, I just checked... and the motto is in French too - How cool!

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    1. I can comment if I choose "Reply"- but not otherwise, the box vanishes.
      North Star is the name of the school my youngest grandson will attend next year, so I must make this for his Christmas tree!

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  6. Ohh, how pretty, the pearls do look nice.

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  7. Perfection! Both the design and the name. Thank you for your continued efforts ang sharing.

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  8. Beautiful stars. I really like the way the pearls shine in the mocha star, and the colors blend so nicely.

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  9. Quel flocon magnifique !! J'adore la version mocha.

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  10. Splendid stars, even to someone in the Southern Hemisphere!

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    1. Maybe I'll have to try to make a "Southern Star" next??! :-)

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  11. This star is beautiful! The mocha with the pearls is my favorite. Is there a way to purchase your patterns?

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  12. Wieder ein wunderschönes Muster für Stern und der Name gefällt mur gut. Es sind beide Sterne sehr gut gelungen. Gratulation

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  13. What lovely tatting and a very pretty pattern. Love it!

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  14. Both stars are stunningly beautiful!

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  15. I like the way the white star sparkles with the crystals. Beautiful!

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  16. A pretty name for pretty stars! Reading your post, I realize that I've been calling my bezel set tatting pieces Snowdrops without thinking that the name had already been used. They just don't look like snowflakes to me since they are so round. Maybe I can come up with another name. I'll have to think on it!

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    1. Thanks to suggestions from blog readers, I have changed the name of my tatted pieces to Ice Drops. I hope this unintentional mistake did not cause any confusion in Tat-land!

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    2. Oh no Diane! Please do not change the name on my account! I don't mind at all and the word "snowdrop" doesn't belong to me. :-))

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  17. Do believe that this is the loveliest tatted star I have ever seen. I look forward to acquiring the pattern. I always enjoy tatting your patterns, in fact, I just finished your Mirabelle snowflake tonight. I was fun to tatting and will look lovely on my tree with my growing collection of snowflake from your patterns.

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  18. Wonderful design! The pearls really stand out, and the crystals would sparkle. Your tatting is always so perfect!

    Note to Maureen: On some blogs I find that the comment 'box' is hidden The solution is to click on 'Reply' to the last person's comment, as you did; but after you do that, if you scroll down a bit you'll see the words 'Add Comment', and when you click on that, the normal comment box pops up. At least it does for me.

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  19. This is quite lovely and I agree that the pearls are very effective in this design.

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  20. I love the choice of pearls within your tatted snowflake! Thank for all your inspirational designs. I can not wait purchase this pattern.

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  21. Un modèle magnifique! J'aime particulièrement le moka. Superbe !

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    1. HI Ardelle, yes I have now written the pattern and it's available in my Etsy shop. :-)

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