The book I bought myself with my birthday money finally
arrived.
It is a second hand copy and I have to admit I don’t think
it is worth what I paid for it. I missed
out on a copy that was cheaper and instead of waiting to see if another cheap
copy became available I just went ahead and bought the next available one which
was about £20 more.
On a positive note there are patterns with lots of new techniques
I have never tried before. The first
item I am going to make will be the choker that’s illustrated on the front
cover. Only thing is it doesn’t specify
what size of brass rings to use. The
thread is size 20 so if anyone has any idea then please let me know!
The baby bonnet cap is frustrating me at the moment. I did 4 heart medallions on for the 7th
row and decided that I attached the first one to the wrong picot and didn’t
make the joining picots long enough what distorted the shape of it so this
morning before I left for work I cut out the medallions and I’m going to start
again tonight. Longer picots seem to be
tricky for me to do. Looking at the old
photo below it looks like picots used to be made very long and mine ended up
about half the length of what these look like.
I think if anyone else what’s to do this pattern, I will
re-write the instructions and have illustrations because some of the
instructions are a little too vague with only one unclear picture of the
finished piece, especially when the tricky bits are all hidden at the base of
the bonnet. Hopefully tonight’s tatting
will be a lot more successful.
While I was tatting away in vain last night we were watching a program called Ice Dogs. Basically its a dcumentary about a guy trying to dog sled from Siberia throught the Bering Strait to Alaska. I thought the guy was a bit of a tool and had no idea about sled dogs but my boy Nao seemed to enjoy it...
While I was tatting away in vain last night we were watching a program called Ice Dogs. Basically its a dcumentary about a guy trying to dog sled from Siberia throught the Bering Strait to Alaska. I thought the guy was a bit of a tool and had no idea about sled dogs but my boy Nao seemed to enjoy it...
Until next time... Cat x
Oh, I've got that book and I too was disappointed in it. Mainly as I've got all the patterns in their original old 'form'. I think a lot are in the public domain but Judith's done a good job modernising them. I should've read up about it before I bought it - silly me. Must add that I love Judith's other book about beads in tatting. You could contact her for help - I believe she's Australian and she's active online too. Email me privately (address is in my profile) if you want more help.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy your book, even a second hand book these days costs a lot of money,
ReplyDeleteI have not done the bonnet pattern it looks quite hard, I hope you manage to get it sorted as it looks very pretty.
Margaret
It's a really good book, although a shame you had to pay so much for it! You may be interested to know that Judith Connors runs the wonderful Queensland Tatters group here in Brisbane - she is a fount of knowledge and happy to teach us,and to share everything she knows.
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