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How to adapt tatting pattern, or how to make a flat doily from a ball.

Hello everyone! Today’s article will be very useful not only for beginner tatterers, but also for experienced lace makers, I’m sure!
In a comment to one of my previous articles, Debra asked if it was possible to make a round Doily from Christmas Clover by Kendra Goodnow.

I found Kendra’s pattern on Handy Hands’ website. You can download this file by clicking on the link: https://hhtatting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Tatted-Christmas-CloverB.pdf

This is a wonderful decoration for your Christmas tree ball!

Debra, I apologize for my inattention! But I made an adaptive pattern for 15 cm in diameter (I forgot, you asked for 4 inches). But I hope this method will help you make any size yourself!

By the way, Kendra’s pattern is free, so we are not violating anyone’s copyright. So, we take the graphic diagram from the downloaded file. Using a computer program, I made a diagram measuring 15 cm in diameter. And now we need to print it out. By the way, if you are not sure about your computer program, you can check the size of the printed template with a ruler. Mine was exactly 15 cm!

And now we have some painstaking but very useful work ahead of us. This way you will avoid big mistakes in the finished product. We need to make test elements for all the Rings and Chains of the pattern. Of course, we do not take into account the repeating elements!

In the video you will see that the first row turned out to be unchangeable.

But in the second row we had to change some Rings and all the chains. Of course, because we need to get an even doily from the ball.

I changed the number of double stitches and added some picots.

As a result, I got this adapted scheme. You can download this file for free by following the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xexJNGF8tQWLt5UXAkGMwxJuUwQs-cLY/view?usp=sharing

I suggest you make a round doily size 15 cm in diameter, threads No. 20!

So now, when you are asked how to adapt tatting pattern, you can confidently answer: easy! And of course, you can watch a video illustrating the process described: https://youtu.be/k3l88qw_Yc4

You can read more articles on my blog, welcome: https://fairylace.kozinenko.com/blog/

Thanks for your support, happy tatting!

Join Picot and More, part 1, or how many types of tatting connections do you know.

Hello everyone! This is the seventeenth lesson in the series “Perfect Tatting”. You can read the previous part here: https://fairylace.kozinenko.com/why-are-split-chains-needed/

My articles are also accompanied by video tutorials. Along with the article, I add them to my YouTube channel. ( Link to the video at the end of the article)

Please write in the comments what subtleties you would like to learn. Then it will be easier for me to make a lessons plan.

I called our lesson today: Join Picot and More, part 1. You’re probably wondering: what else can be used besides the connecting picot? You’d be surprised, but you actually use at least 10 or 12 different methods. I’m sure! You probably know more. For example, I know 20 different methods. But to avoid an endlessly long article, today we’ll look at the first ten ways. Some of them we use constantly, and some rarely. But this fact does not affect the usefulness of each method!

Join picot

The first two methods are our favorites and we constantly use join picots. But there is a nuance! I will not stop now and describe each method in detail. I am sure that you know everything about it. And the name is “talking”: Up Join and Down Join.

Lock Join

Two next connections is Lock Join (or Shuttle Join ). We use this method when we attach the end of the Chain to the previous row or element. I guess you can also split this method into two. It all depends on where you insert the hook into the picot, from Up or Down. But in the end, I don’t see much of a difference.

I suggest you try Lock Join, but with a thread from the ball. With this junction you get an interesting perpendicular position of the next row. This is a very useful trick if you are making a small box or a tatting cup, for example. I won’t repeat that you can also use Up and Dow join. LOL But I repeated it!

Blipless Join

The next joining method I want to talk about is the Blipless Join. In my opinion, this is the absolute perfect way if you need to join two different colored elements together without “getting noticed.” I found three ways to do this trick online. I’m pretty sure each method is named after the talented tatting artist who came up with it: Ninetta Caruso’s Method, Jane Eborall’s Method, and Frivola’s Method. You can see in the photo how the usual join differs from Blipless Join.

Catherine Wheel Join

If you haven’t mastered the Catherine Wheel Join yet, give it a try! It’s an absolutely essential way to join. You use it when doing an Onion Ring, for example, and you’ll get perfect results!

Oh, I’m tired already. And you? You still have a video to watch. So I’m ending today’s article. But be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow my blog. Because we have 10 more ways to make different tatting joins!

https://youtu.be/WPzV9dJYDrM

Thanks and happy tatting!