The first round looks okay. I'm not quite sure what I did at the top, but I figure the funky look will disappear in the next round.
I'm not really good at looking at directions. If I had looked at the schema, I probably would have skipped trying this doily... it has split rings! However, I decided to be brave and forge on. After all, Carol aka Lelia showed me how to do split rings easily. Now, if I could only remember what she taught me!
Now, I'm stuck. Not only does this pattern have split rings, it has split rings with picots. I managed to do the first half of the split ring just fine, but I couldn't get the second half. I tried three times, watched four videos, and then I took out what I had of a split ring.
I think I'm going to practice split rings all by themselves, and then I'll come back to this doily. I don't have the brain power to practice split rings tonight, so...
I'm returning to my comfort tat... Spinning Wheel glass mat from Tatting with Visual Patterns by Mary Konior.
Silly me! I must have saved Sunday's post instead of publishing it! So, now it's Monday's post! :-)
Looks like you were off to a good start!! :)
ReplyDeleteI do ok with split rings with picots, but the picots are hard for me to get done on the side that isn't tatted regular so I understand!
Enjoy your glass mat tatting!!! :)
I love the swirly effect. Ingenious! I hope you get the hang of split rings and its picots. I enjoy them so I am wishing you the same joy to tatting split rings!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the split rings. Judith Smith, a tatting teacher in Bulawayo, showed me how to do them, thankfully, because the library book that described them as doing a ring 'upside down and back to front' had me completely baffled!
ReplyDeleteThe pattern looks great, good luck with the split rings, I have been learning how to do them.
ReplyDeleteDo you happen to have a copy of Tatting Hearts by Teri Dusenbury? She has a tutorial (with pictures) on split rings. I learned them from this book in 1998 - they were the easiest to understand directions I'd ever seen! They really are not hard to do.
ReplyDeleteYou always come back to Spinning Wheels, don't you?
ReplyDeleteI love the "spinning" look of that first round of Jan's doily, too. I hope you can get back to it with renewed spirits for the split rings... I don't hae any recommendation of instruction source, but maybe you can do a simple split ring bracelet, or Janemac's bookmark (at the right sideboards on her blog: janemactats.blogspot.com) to practice them...
Good luck on the split rings. They are easy, wish I was closer and could give you a hand.
ReplyDeletethat doily will be interesting when you have had a chance to get back to it.
more spinning wheels, good for you to have a comfort tat.
There is a pattern in the OCCHI book that I want to try. It looks small enough for an attempt.
ReplyDeleteI'm not great with split chains - but, am going to attempt with the TIAS
Your tatting looks fine to me....and I also just LOVE the Spinning Wheel pattern!!!
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