Friday, February 24, 2012

Here's one I made earlier



As the  cookery programmes say. It seems that my word 'teashower' is completely obscure and no one knows what I'm talking about! Food cover? Intended to keep flies and other nasties off the biscuits at the tea table or veges from the garden or whatever.  I usually make them to give away, but this one is mine. The edging is 'Spring Flowers Bookmark', though I'm not sure who designed it. Shout, if you know. The butterfly is Jane Eborall's very small butterfly, or SCMR butterfly, my all time favourite pattern. I will be putting some butterflies on the food cover I'm working on now too.
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  1. Jane EborallFebruary 25, 2012 at 2:27 AM

    Ah, that's such a useful thing to have. Must make one myself in due course.

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    1. Jane McLellanFebruary 25, 2012 at 6:50 AM

      Very useful and full of potential for using tatted motifs.

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  2. FoxFebruary 25, 2012 at 5:30 AM

    I am glad you solved the mystery. Very obscure word and I did NOT find it online! That is a first for me as I always find something about a word I have not seen before!

    I had assumed it was a cover for a teapot, but my wee brain did not extrapolate that guess to 'food cover.' Thanks for the post!
    Fox : )

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    1. Jane McLellanFebruary 25, 2012 at 6:49 AM

      Cover for a teapot would make rather more sense! I don't know where the word came from. I'm hoping someone will pipe up and say that's the word they would use, before I think I made it up myself!

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    2. FoxFebruary 26, 2012 at 8:39 AM

      Nothing wrong with a good homemade word!
      Fox : ))

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  3. IsDiharaFebruary 25, 2012 at 9:10 AM

    Jane, is this the flower edging pattern you used for your "teashower?"

    Spring Flowers Bookmark by Julie Patterson © 2002
    http://www.ringoftatters.org.uk/patterns/jpatterson/jp.html

    I blogged about it on March 21, 2010:
    http://ambitatterous.blogspot.com/2010/03/shamrocks-equinox-and-spring-oh-my.html

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    1. Jane McLellanFebruary 26, 2012 at 4:51 AM

      Yes, thanks very much, that's the pattern. Your blog was very interesting too. I prefer the one made with lilac thread, even though I used a variegated thread myself.

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  4. victats@gmail.comFebruary 25, 2012 at 12:12 PM

    What did you make it out of? Is it tulle? My friend's mom asked me for something just like that and I didn't know what to use.

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    1. Jane McLellanFebruary 26, 2012 at 4:53 AM

      As far as I know, the material is called orgnaza. I think tulle is more like net, you could you that. I just found that it tended to fall apart before the tatting did. I think the basic idea is to choose a material that you can see through, so you can see what is underneath.

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