A Rose by Any Other Name...

As usual, once I open a Mary Konior book, I always see something else that strikes my fancy.  After yesterday's motif, I was attracted to this rose which is very similar to the flower in the Tischband.  The rose is actually part of a collar pattern but after making two as in the collar, I decided to make one as stand alone.

This enabled me to practice my newly learned technique for the split chain (video in the making, still in the editing process) which is great - more on that soon.

Rose adapted from the Rose Collar pattern 

from "Tatting Patterns" by Mary Konior (pp. 52-55)

The thread is Autumn Splash by Yarnplayer

and as I was tatting, I kept thinking it reminded me of something...

I hope Yarnplayer will forgive me but eventually

it came to me....

Fruit Loops!

I've not eaten those since I was a child

and even then, not very often as my mother 

never wanted to buy them!

And the design itself reminds me of the Tudor Rose:

I realise now I need to work on those "blip less joins" for this type of tatting in variegated thread.... or is that to do with front-side/back-side tatting....?

Best wishes,