Monday 29 July 2013

Abandoned Idea

I worked on these some time ago... but they never made it to pattern.  I had them hanging by my worktable and just looked at them again and thought perhaps I should re-visit.


These are just samples, quickly tatted, with mistakes in them, knots, etc.  I was playing with lock chains at the time and the pattern that I eventually came up with was Minuet... or maybe that was after Minuet, I can't remember for certain.



There was an interesting problem that came up with this design:  I wanted a split ring to climb from one round to the next but I had two different colours (it's the green rings near the centre) but of course, I wanted the split ring to be all green, not one half green and one half pink!  So I came up with the idea of tatting the second half with two shuttles which worked great - as you can see in the motif above, all the rings are green though one of them is a split ring and one shuttle has pink in it and the other green.  

Now I fear I didn't take any notes on this (or on the design itself) so I think I will sit and give this some thought and try to work out how I did it before!  

I will be reporting back.

Best wishes,
Frivole

13 comments:

  1. Is this what you did? http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/SSSRDoubleCore.pdf
    I use it a lot and it works really well. Hope it helps.

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    1. That must be it Jane! But I remember feeling pleased with myself at the time as I figured it out by myself. There I was thinking I was clever and you had that worked out long ago! But you can only do this if the ring is not attached, am I not right? In this pattern, it works because the ring is free to wrap the loop at the base.

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    2. Yes, that is right but there are ways round even that problem probably. I haven't time at the moment to look at it (grandkid sitting) but try taking a look at this - it MIGHT work with the hidden second shuttle too http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/SSSRjoin2way.pdf

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    3. Thank you for that Jane. I had actually tried that method before or even used a spare bit of thread to anchor the loop so it's do-able.

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  2. Those are so sweet looking!!! :)

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  3. It's interesting from a tecnique point of view! And the design in my opinion surely deserves to be put on paper, so nice!

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  4. Yes, I agree with comments so far. I like the idea of adding a second shuttle when trying to move up, I've only been careful to make sure I use a variegated thread with a matching second color so your eyes don't notice it's not the variegated one. If that makes any since. You did great coming up with it on your own.

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    1. Hi Madtatter,
      This solution does mean you can use any two colour threads as you won't see the other at all in this special split ring. A clever trick really.

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  5. A lovely and intricate design as always! I look forward to seeing the pattern.

    It's true that you can only use the SSSR technique when there are no joins in the ring. If there are joins, a Dora Young knot would work. However, these are even more fiddly than the double-core SSSR, and on the second half you would have to make a lock join with the second shuttle instead of a regular join, so it would look odd. For these reasons, if there were joins in the ring, I would probably opt to cut and tie rather than try to climb to the next round. Luckily not an issue in this design!

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  6. Lovely little pattern, well worth having another look at them.
    Margaret

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  7. Dear frivole , these are the kind of things, that , when you show them to me in person, I understand immediately. Written down,however, they don't make any sense. It could be some sort of word blindness, I don't know.
    Congratulations anyway, for such an intricate,as well as lovely design.

    PS Would you organise a class for your fans? I would not mind crossing the channel to learn some of your 'tricks'.

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  8. I love the motif you made, but I'm not sure it's something I'd ever have the brain power to tackle. I'm sure I could catch on through watching one of your wonderful videos, but like Tally Tatty, I think I suffer from word blindness!

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