NeedleDreams' posts with tag: celtic
Yesterday, while watching Desperation (from Stephen King, I got it after looking for it a long time) I made this butterfly. It's from Ruth Perry's Celtic Tatting book. I have done it before and I still love it. I even took a class with Ruth at Palmetto where she was teaching this cutie and other Celtic patterns. I'm a big fan of Celtic, art, music, folklore, anything Celtic. No, I'm not Irish nor have Irish family that I know. My ancestor came from Spain and probably Arabia. But anyway I like Celtic stuff.  The butterfly is pretty simple. For me the most difficult part is to make the head. After the head is done the rest is piece of cake! Mmm... Chocolate cake.... *ahem* Back to tatting...
I used the Egyptian cotton perle #8 in pink and purple. The blue is also cotton perle but Chinese! I didn't notice it was Chinese until last night when I was looking for the label and didn't find it, then I noticed the tab inside the ball. I don't like this blue thread because I think it's old and breaks too easily when I'm working. I tend to tat very tight and if the thread is old or fragile it will break often and my work won't be smooth and pretty. At least last night didn't break.
I still have plenty of thread on the shuttle, so I'll make another and invert the colors.
This is the other pattern discussed last night. It's a celtic edging. I love this one!!!! It looks like first you make the white and then 2 braids and interweave it and put it in the center. But the thing is that is all made in one pass. It uses 4 shuttles; 2 with white thread and 2 shuttles each with one color. I used a Baby Powder Blue with a mute Green. I made it into a bookmark so the ends I made a weird braid.
I tried to make a close up of the braid but it's too blurry. I'll try to take another shot when it's day tomorrow. The pattern is also by Ruth and can be found here.
This is last night culprit.  After so much trying I just did it my way. Ruth's pattern ask for a twisted Split Ring, but I couldn't make it. SO I just made SCMRs and the final result is very much similar to Ruth's.
You can find the pattern here. It's a PDF pattern.
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Celtic Tatting is an innovative technique now a day. There are 2 styles. The "traditional" is when you interweave several parts to become one and the "real" celtic that is made in one round and interweaved as it's done. The first was developed by Elgiva Nichols and Rosemarie Peel and the 2nd has been developed by Ruth Perry. Now a day you can find several patterns online and a few books, including one by me. This motif is my favorite one. It's my design and it's on the book Celtic with a Twist. It's made with long picots that are later beaded and interweaved and joined.
Well it doesn't look exactly like the one in the photo on the last post, but it's a hat none the less. I think I have to adjust the size of the chains. The patterns doesn't specify how many stitches in the chain to be interwoved. I'll be making more of this later. I used a rayon thread similar to a #20 that Georgia Seitz sent me a while ago. I decorated it with some 1-ring flowers in different colors and materials. A really nice pattern by Ruth Perry!
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But while Martha was explaining a little about the Celtic History I manage to start the homework and then keep with the rest of the explanations. Some explanations and exercises were discussed about designing. Celtic Tatting can be categorize in 2 styles: the "true" celtic knotwork made usually by interweaving a long chain into the design (Ruth Perry's style) and the more "traditional" celtic tatting that is compose of several motifs interweaved.
Not me! Because I used 2 colors only. LOL
Isn't she gorgeous!
