Tuesday 24 April 2018

Small Doily - 3rd Round

I'm working on the third round and I thought it looked pretty as I tatted last night, like a giant flower on my knee...

Again I'm enjoying tatting rings with flipped stitches and chains with unflipped for this round.  It really saves a lot of time and fiddling with not having to turn your work over, or rewind your shuttles.


I like how this third round adds a lot to the size of the doily in one go.

Best wishes,
Frivole

8 comments:

  1. It does look a lot like a flower. Your idea of saving time by tatting the chains in unflipped stitches sounds very good for large items.

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  2. JS has some beautiful now classic doilies and you have tatted them well this one is another beauty!

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  3. Makes me think I should try this one to practice the unflipped chains! Looks gorgeous!

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    1. I highly recommend unflipped chains, they save me so much time! I hope you'll give them a try. You quickly get into the rhythm of them I find. :-)

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  4. You do such beautiful, precision work. I'm trying your unflipped chains and I really like doing them. I'm also trying SCMRs too. I received my second shuttle yesterday (pansy) and now I'm all set. Both are beautiful and lovely to use. What do you think about Jan Stawasz's method of tatting regarding picots?

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    1. Thank you Jan! Glad you are liking unflipped chains, I really think they're great. Jan Stawasz's method is in fact very similar to FS/BS tatting but he moves it one half stitch which I find can be confusing. On the back, he still starts with the first half so he ends up with one stitch and a half before a picot. I think it's easier to just do regular FS/BS tatting. I did a whole blogpost on his method as I wanted to figure out for myself how his was different and if it was worth it. I'll see if I can find the link. :-)

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