Monday, July 23, 2012

Butterflies -- Motifs 11 - 13

Do you ever have a little tatting voice inside your head? Do you ever have a slump where you don't feel like tatting, or maybe you feel like it, but can't pick anything to make? A while back I was in a slump, and as I would sort through my balls of thread hoping for inspiration for the next project, the little voice would say, "I don't want these, I want to tat with some different colors." Which was odd, because, believe me, I have lots of colors. Eventually, I figured it out, I needed HDT. Or in this case, hand-painted thread as Karey calls hers. I pulled out a skein of her "County Fair" thread and a much admired book from the shelf and was back in business.




All of these butterflies are from Tatted Butterflies by Adelheid Dangela. There are quite a lot of good designs in this book. The patterns are all in diagram form, so maybe too hard for a new beginner, but highly recommended for anyone with a little experience, enough to look at the picture and know when to reverse work or switch shuttles.


10 comments:

  1. Gorgeous tatting, Martha! Love Karey's thread and this colourway is wonderful - I have never seen it before.

    I might NEED that little book...
    Fox : )

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  2. Ooo, those butterflies look wonderful! I can see how that thread could be the inspiration needed to get tatting on almost anything! Lovely, lovely!

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  3. Those are all really wonderful!!!! :)

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  4. Pretty thread and I LOVE the top butterfly- fantastic!!

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  5. Very pretty Butterflies Martha.
    I like the colors of that thread

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  6. The butterflies are awesome! The HDT did the trick, they all came out looking really beautiful. Now I got to consider getting this book. :)

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  7. Glad you found your mojo again, interesting butterflies!

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  8. Gorgeous butterflies, they look beautiful in that colour thread
    Margaret

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  9. Your butterflies are wonderful - I particularly like the top one. And the thread! I wish I could get some of that!

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  10. Without the internet we wouldn't have an opportunity to see many of these tatting
    books at all, let alone samples of the patterns inside. You have brought these out of hiding, and the HDT really gives them life! Wonderful designs and excellent tatting! I'm glad you got inspired, although I haven't known you to be 'out of the game' for long!


    s t is in the book

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