I've been using scraps of thread to tat
Ninetta's butterfly. For the white one, I took a technique from Jane Eborall's
SCMR butterfly and used a split ring to make the head, so that the ends could be snipped for the antennae and don't have to be hidden. They look rather scruffy, I probably need more practice before I attempt Ninetta's pattern, but it's a start.
By the way, I wind thread left over on shuttles onto bread bag ties to use for such experiments:
I also followed Ninetta's links on
this post to learn how to make a wide picot:
Clever! I managed to grasp it more quickly than I grasped treble tatting, hooray.
Not wide off the mark 😄😉 Your playfulness has yielded good results 👍💖
ReplyDeleteI save all the bread clips too! Jars and jars full of them which my three year old granddaughter likes to play with. She sorts colours. I haven't seen the wide picots before, I must find the instructions.
ReplyDeleteI save all the bread clips too! Jars and jars full of them which my three year old granddaughter likes to play with. She sorts colours. I haven't seen the wide picots before, I must find the instructions.
ReplyDeleteNice butterflies!! :)
ReplyDeleteInteresting idea for keeping the extra thread!
Honestly, I thought I had tatting down. Now we have all these Knotty Inventors! Actually, I'm glad there is experimentation. (But, it dents my ego. LOL)
ReplyDeleteHa, ha, I agree entirely!
DeleteYour bread tie just made me smile! For some reason I started hoarding them because they just seemed to pop up in weird places so I started keeping them...maybe now I know why!
ReplyDeleteIn South Africa they can be donated to be recycled into wheelchairs, I need to do that instead of winding thread onto them!
DeleteThank you very much for showing your experiments, I hope also your beautiful tatting helps to spread the word :-) The wide picot was invented 13 years ago, fingers crossed tatters in the era of social networks would learn faster and a lot more than how to do one double stitch! Hugs!
ReplyDeleteYes, hooray for the internet that enables us to learn new techniques.
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