Saturday, June 15, 2013

Preparing for Diana

 Yesterday I dyed some thread in preparation for tatting Gunhild's pattern Diana. I'm going to use the multicoloured thread, I just dyed the dark one to use up the left over dye. When it was dry, I rolled it onto a cardboard core.
I did some practising of the techniques in the pattern (a good pattern, with clear explanations). One thing I had to remember was to make sure the shuttle and shuttle thread were out of the way before I closed the Single shuttle split ring.
I slid beads onto the thread and wound it onto a Starlit shuttle. I simplified things for myself slightly by using seed beads of only one colour. I reckon that with a variegated thread, using different colour beads would be overkill. I tried to space the beads along the thread in small batches, but when I started tatting I found I had it wrong and had to keep unwinding and rewinding the shuttle too much. So last night I unwound it all and put the beads closer to the work in bigger groups. I'll see how that goes.

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  1. What a lovely color way! Do you ever sell your HDT? I always seem to put the beads wrong too.

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    1. Since thread suitable for tatting is difficult to get in South Africa, I recently offered to dye thread for sale locally. I'll see how that goes.

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  2. Can't wait to see it finished!! Looks like the beads and thread are going to be a great combination!! :)

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  3. Lovely colours, look forward to seeing it finished.
    Margaret

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