Practising in an arbitrary way is a bit aimless, so I decided to tat Ninetta's Swirling Butterflies, even though I'm not really proficient in treble tatting. This is a practice piece. Ninetta's pattern is in two parts, the first part is
here and the second part is
here. I followed muskaan's suggestion and tatted the butterflies separately, tethering them with the chain. It means the green round is worked with one shuttle and ball. I found it wasn't necessary to put safety pins to hold the inward picots on the butterfly bodies, the trebles are flexible enough to be moved apart for joining. I used size 20 thread. handdyed DMC Cebelia and Milford and the motif measures 11 cm across.
Looks to me like you have done a fabulous job on it!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for playing with the swirling butterflies :-) great job! Beautiful tatting!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the pattern!
DeleteLovely piece of tatting, very clever and thanks to Ninetta for the design
ReplyDeleteThese butterflies have swirled through at least 3 continents {that I know of)!!! I notice your butterflies are facing the other direction - a north/south divide ;-P
ReplyDeleteLovely work!!!
Working the butterflies separately makes it easy to choose which side faces. I thought having the wing with trebles to the fore seemed ‘right’. As long as they all face the same way, it’s all good.
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