I was looking at one of my trees last night and all of a sudden wondered... "why not make the snow with tatting instead of crochet?"
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So here is a version with tatted snow.
In fact, I think I prefer the tatted snow as it's a little firmer and is perhaps even better at helping give the branches their shape. I have now amended the pattern and added the information on tatting the snow so if anyone wants to re-download it, you'll now get the most recent version.
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Here's trying to give you a better look at the tatted snow.
As I mentioned in the pattern, I used normal lock joins on this version but it would look nice with Catherine Wheel joins too. Perhaps I'll use them on the next version when I try adding beads for baubles as well.
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My forest is growing!
I'll look forward to hearing from anyone who makes the first tree. Feedback is welcome!
Best wishes,
Frivole
Oh well done, much better to use tatting for the snow. Thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! :-)
DeleteI was actually thinking that the snow could be tatted too. Especially in the case of people who don't crochet. :) It's nice that you added that option too!
ReplyDeleteYes, absolutely agree with you Lavinia (not everybody who tats also crochets) but I also wanted to keep as close to the original initially. Then I thought adding an option wouldn't detract from the original pattern.
DeleteOh this is cute! Thank you so much to you for your beautiful tatting and to the designer for the permission to share. I'll try it!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ninetta, glad you like it! :-)
DeleteIt's so lovely!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michelle! :-)
DeleteWonderful trees!! :)
ReplyDeleteSo glad I looked at your video; I was tatting the snow and it just seemed wrong; I'd missed that you changed the number of DS in the first round of snow (downloaded it too soon, apparently.) Whew! Thanks for your videos!!
ReplyDeleteYou're very welcome Hallie, glad a tatter spotted the mistake and alerted me to it. :-)
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