More bookmarks and more crappy scanner pics ahead!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_diane/]

Here are three more bookmarks I've made, all in size 10 thread (I've got a bunch of smaller thread on order).

The red one is needle tatted, with the same pattern as this one except with seven repeats instead of nine. I wanted to see just how much looser needle tatting is, and the difference seems pretty significant to me. I tried using a size 5 needle instead of a size 7 (which is standard for size 10 thread), but I found it really difficult to pull the thread through the stitches so I went back to the size 7.


This blue one is my first two-shuttle pattern, the clover bookmark.


This is Jessica, with one extra repeat than the pattern lists.

Comments

[moniqueleigh]

For a "new" tatter, you're doing lovely work!! Keep it up!

[wosny.livejournal.com]

They are lovely, it's addictive isn't it?

[kaystarkindler.livejournal.com]

Beautiful work!

[navygreen.livejournal.com]

I made that clover one for a teacher's bookmark back in May. It was my favorite of the six that I needed to make for the end-of-year gifts (only five of the six are in these pictures (http://navygreen.livejournal.com/833663.html#cutid1), including that one). But I didn't realize it was a two-shuttle pattern - I only did it with one.

Yours are very pretty. I want to remake that one with a nice, solid thread - sometimes that helps to really emphasize the detail in the pattern. :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_diane/]

I was misinformed when I wrote this entry - what I meant was that this was my first ring-and-chain pattern, as opposed to the ring-and-float patterns I had be doing before. I did use two shuttles, but one was the working shuttle the whole time so I could have just done with with one shuttle and the ball of thread.