A Very Canadian Tat-a-long Day

🇨🇦🇨🇦Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🇨🇦

Thanks to  Spears for reminding me to post Day 3 on the blog!

Day 3-  Canadian Sunrise 🌅

You will need a crochet hook, floss threader (or bead needle), clear size 10 beads and about 12 inches of red thread.

There is no tatting in this part, we are adding beads between the bangle and the sun.

Start by tying to 1st picot on the ring left of the mountain (hide end in the beads).

Add 9 beads, tie to bangle

Add 10 beads, pass thread through picot of next ring

Add 12 beads, tie to bangle

Add 13 beads, skip a ring and pass through picot of next ring

Add 14 beads, tie to bangle

Add 14 beads, skip a ring and pass through picot of next ring

Add 13 beads, tie to bangle

Add 12 beads, skip a ring and pass through picot of next ring

Add 10 beads, tie to bangle

Add 9 beads, tie to picot of next ring and hide end in beads

You may need to fiddle with moving where you tied at the bangle.  I suggest a dab of glue to help hold the bangle ties in place

A Very Canadian Tat-a-long Day 2

Day 2

As you may guess today is very short.  These are my version of the Canadian Rockies.  I imagined looking East from BC.  If you are more east in Canada you could use blue for the ocean, maybe stick a boat in there lol.  

New terms:

VS- victorian sets.  Make 2 1st half stitch and then make 2 2nd half stitches. Number in front indicates how many repeats of the set to tat.

Wind 1 1/2 yards on shuttle, needle tatters normal tail.

R.  4 +(bangle) 4

C.  6 VS + (vsp of ring on sun)  5 VS

R.  4 +(bangle) 4

C.  5 VS + (skip one ring and join to vsp of next ring on sun)  6 VS

R.  4 +(bangle) 4

Hide ends

Short and sweet!  Tomorrow you will be doing super simple beading.  

If you could not find a plastic ring in the right size below is a substitution. 

You will need to press this into shape a bit.  Its very important that you make the large picot 5/8 inch in height (from top of ds to tip of picot)

R 6 vsp 6

C 2ds  large picot (as mentioned) 2ds

*R 6ds vsp 6ds

C. 2ds +(large picot)  2ds*

Repeat from * to * until you have 12 rings

Press into shape.  You may also want to stiffen it

A Very Canadian Tat-a-long 202 Day 1

Hi Everyone,

Its that time of year again!  

I am holding the Very Canadian Tat-a-long starting today.  It will be followed by the 4th of July Tat-a-long.  The files will be available on the Fringe Element Tatters, Just Tatting, Friends of Tatting Corner and the Needle Tatting: For Beginners Group on Facebook.

Or you can just follow below!

For A Very Canadian Tat-a-long you will need size 20 Lizbeth thread in yellow, brown (or grey or blue) and red.  Size 10 clear beads, a bangle, and a 5/8 plastic cabone ring.

For the 4th of July Tat-a-long you will need suze 20 thread in red, white and blue.  Size 10 beads in white, black and red.

If you have other sized threads you will need to fiddles a bit with the beads.

A Very Canadian Tat-a-long 2020

Vicki Clarke 2020

Day 1

Materials:

Size 20 Lizbeth in red, yellow and brown (could also be blue or grey)

Size 10 clear beads

Bangle

5/8 inch plastic cabone ring

 

Terms

C- chain

R- ring

vsp- very small picot

W- make double stitiches around the cabone ring.  Jane Eborall has a great tutorial for shuttle tatters on her technique page

For needle tatters I recommend tatsaway.blogspot.com, she has a tutorial on the blog.  There are also excellent Youtube videos

Start with the 5/8 inch plastic cabone ring

*W      3

R         6 vsp 6*

Repeat from * to * until you have 12 rings

Hide end

Needle tatters-  I think its probably easiest to make true rings with this kind of pattern. 

Shuttle Tatters-  you do not reverse work between the wraps and the rings.

 

 

 

Tatting at Fours and Sixes

Gentle Tatters,

We're going to be home a lot more in the next few weeks. Social Distancing requires that we don't congregate in person but it doesn't mean that we can't come together through other means. Don't forget that we have email, facebook, chatsy, instagram, other social media and even the old fashioned telephone.

We can still come together and tat.

IF you are looking for tatting patterns and supplies we have terrific online shops like Handy Hands, Tatting Corner Artisanthropy, Be-Stitched, Roseground (I'm missing a lot on this list)

-Money might be tight but there are a million tatting patterns for free out on the interet. Check out the pattern library that exists on Craftree, thanks to Kersti Anear for buildling this site. The Ice Drop Addict facebook group has over 81 free Ice Drop Patterns.

- the online tatting class webpage has over 20 years of tatting classes you can tat your way through lesson by lesson

-consider tatting a 6 ring flower for the Celebration of a Classic Wall hanging for the Palmetto Tatting Guild Fundraiser

-I'm adding an unfinished collection of patterns (no pics of the finished project, they're at the cottage) called Tatting at Fours and Sixes to the files of various facebook groups. Feel free to download it, tat the patterns and share pics.

It's just for a short period of time that we need to be more careful.

Let's take this opportunity to celebrate our craft together!

Can you help?

Can you help us make a
wall hanging?

Fixing a cut picot..

I cut a picot by accident on my Renulek Spring Napkin 2016.  This happened when I was careless about putting the doily away after tatting on it.  It was fairly stable so I debated about leaving it alone but finally decided to fix it.  Here are the steps I took to do this:
1.  I unpicked the ball thread from the core thread so I have a small tail on either side of the core thread.

2.  I pull a length of thread and used a needle to wrap the stitches around the core thread starting from the left.  I left a length of thread so I could come back and sew in the new ends.  Apparently I didn't take a photo of that.  I covered the short tail on the left at the same time.

3.  Join to the ring in the next row by going through the stitches that made the original join
Then I stitched in the new right sided tail

5.  Then I went back and sewed in the new left handed tail.

I'm sorry I didn't take more pictures of that.  I thought I was taking too many pics at the time.

Good news, I made a mistake a few rows back in the Renulek 2019 so I can take more pics of fixing mistakes without cutting back.....

Cut Picot

Ball thread removed
Core thread still intact

all fixed....

Super Nova Star and a Fundraiser

This is a pic of the project I am teaching this spring at the Fingerlakes Tatting Seminar.  It is a 3-d star  that uses a cabone ring as the center.  This project can be done by both needle and shuttle tatters.  You will learn how to tat around a cabone ring in class so don't worry if you haven't don it yet.  

In other news Wally Sosa is doing a fundraiser for Puerto Rico until the end of January.  If you purchase anything from her store all proceeds will go to a fund to purchase tents for people who have lot their homes.  Wally is from Puerto Rico and has family affected by the earthquakes.  There is more information on her timeline on Facebook (and my facebook timeline Victats Clarke).  If you don't know Wally Sosa then I invite you to check her out at her Etsy store called Needles-n-Shuttles.  Wally is a long time tatter with many books and patterns available, check her out there is sure to be something that will interest you!