Sunday, March 8, 2009

Renegade Dawg, and a Tatted Motif

Quick update from my last post: as it turns out, everyone agreed (not with me) that the Tatting and Teneriffe Lace Hexagon doily should be left as it is. I still think it needs something to tie the motifs together. I have decided that I will leave the doily alone for a week or two to see if my opinion changes. In the meantime, I will make another hexagon using my last Teneriffe medallion (I'm going to have to make some more), and try my edging idea on that one. Maybe I'll be right; maybe I'll realize my idea won't work.

I mentioned in my last post that I had completed my Dawg hoodie by the Crochet Dude, hereby known as Renegade Dawg (thanks Sherry). I took a few pictures of myself wearing it. These are probably the best pictures I have taken of Renegade Dawg (though not of me, but then I hate having my picture taken, so I'm biased). You can see the colour variation really well is these pictures; I actually like the way it come out. Onwards to the pictures.

Out of all the pictures I took, this was the best (and I still don't like it). I would like to mention, that I usually wear glasses, but I took them off due to the funky ways the camera flash kept glaring off them. Anyway, here is another picture, one from the side.


This one is better. And, again, shows the colour variation really well here. Finally, here is one more picture of me wearing Renegade Dawg. The photo has a bonus in it.

Yup. I'm tatting in this one. This is probably my favourite of the three photos. I'll discuss the tatting later. I would like to thank all of you who commented with suggestions on how I could lessen the mismatched look of the different dye lots. I used each and every one to finish the hoodie.

Finally, I decided to participate in Sharon's design challenge (this sounds familiar). I had planned on using the rose, along with a few rounds of additional tatting to replace the Teneriffe in my hexagon pattern. The outer rounds were supposed to be the same as said hexagon. It didn't work that way:

This is my Tatted Rose Hexagon - Mark 1. While working the design, I came across a few modifications that need to be done. So you will probably see a Mark 2, and perhaps a Mark 3 before I am fully satisfied. This will be motif #21 of my Second 25 Motif Challenge. All future motifs based on this motif will not be counted. Later.

13 comments:

  1. This is just beautiful. The colors you've chosen make each element stand out and that outer round is especially striking.

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  2. Renegade Dawg looks (((AWESOME))).
    You are a talented guy!

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  3. Your hoodie turned out pretty cool. I know the mismatched dye lot is buggin' ya, but it looks great the way you made sure the other dye lot was in the sleeves and the pocket. It looks like you've got a very subtle "I meant to do this cool variation" thing going on there!

    Your tatted hexagon motif is very pretty! :)

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  4. Renegade Dawg looks great, and I love the motif!

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  5. Good job on both the hoodie and rose challenge!

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  6. Cool hoodie! The rose motif looks great, the colours reallly go together nicely.

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  7. Thanks everyone. I'm glad you like both the hoodie and the rose hexagon. I forgot to mention it, but I will be making the pattern available once the stitch count is finalized.

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  8. hey jeff, the Renegade Dawg is gorgeous. i like the combination of thread colours used for the different parts of it. thanks for showing it off. i see that it fits you perfectly.

    mark 1 is cool. looking forward to mark 2, 3, 4 and more...

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  9. Thanks Valerie. Yes, it fits perfectly; the advantage of making it myself.

    I'm glad you like my Rose Hexagon, Mark 1. I look forward to showing you all future revisions of the design.

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  10. Love that hoodie! I didn't even notice the mismatch until I read down the post. I might have to make one for myself. I've got some skeins of camo Red Heart I found on sale a few months ago.

    The design and colors in the rose motif are awesome. That blue is so....BLUE!! I like, I like a lot. Nice job.

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  11. Hi Steph. Thanks for the nice comments. I love the hoodie too. I'm going to have to make another one.

    I'm glad you like the rose motif as well. Yeah, the blue is really blue. I love this colour.

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  12. love the rose motif, they seem to be one of my favorite things to tat. Thank you for sharing!

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  13. Very cool hoodie! I like it alot. That tatting project is very nice too. I like the contrast of the intense colors and the great pattern.

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