Saturday, December 5, 2009

Mary Konior's Patchwork - Bookmark For TattingChic

Before I begin the tatting portion of this blog post, I want to make a quick shop announcement. I'll make it short. I have decided to offer free shipping to Canada and the United States for the month of December. Overseas shipping has been reduced by the US shipping amount. OK, enough of that. Time for the tatting.

My previous post was about the bookmark I received from TattingChic. This time I will show off the bookmark I made TattingChic. After scanning through websites and pattern books, I decided to use a motif from Mary Konior's Tatting With Visual Patterns. I chose "Patchwork".

The above motif was actually the third motif I made for Tattingchic's bookmark. However, on the third repeat, just before I was going to join it with the first two, I made a mistake-sorry, design variation. I made one of the large chains (at the top in the above photo) smaller than the other. I didn't want to retro-tat to fix the mistake-er, design variation, and I couldn't join it to the completed two motifs. So I just finished the motif. I'm sure I find some use for it.

You're probably wonder what the finished bookmark looks like. Well, here it is:

I really like how it came out. Please note: I don't remember if I blocked the bookmark before or after scanning. So it probably looks better than the above photo. Anyway, here are some stats for the bookmark. I used Lizbeth size 40 thread in colour #120 Denim Whisper. TattingChic likes pink and other "girly" colours, and this was as close I could get. I have to admit, I can't say I have ever owned anything denim with pink in it. I usually think of denim as shades of blue. But, its still a nice colourway. This will be #6 of my Third 25 Motif Challenge.

Finally I decided to treat myself to some more Lizbeth thread. I love this stuff! I wanted to get a few of the new colours that had been recently added to the growing list of colours. I would like to mention that Handy Hands isn't the only place to buy Lizbeth thread. Both DS9Designs and Be-Stitched carry Lizbeth. I ordered from DS9Designs since they also carry Superior Threads products such as King Tut and Perfect Quilter threads. But Be-Stitched has cheaper shipping options, which is nice when you only want a few balls of thread.

That's all for now. I was hoping to have the pattern by Jane finished, but I've spent the last few days working on chainmaille stuff for my shop. Hopefully I can do some tatting after work tomorrow. Later.

8 comments:

  1. Wow! That turned out really nice!

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  2. I've never been enamored of that motif from the picture in the book, but I love yours. The variegated thread makes all the difference. Lovely job!

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  3. Hi Jeff, I'm so glad that you showed a picture of this beautiful bookmark. I just love it! The photos do not capture how pretty this bookmark really is up close! I need to post about our exchange! I haven't done a blog post for 5 weeks can you believe it? LOL! I am so behind on my blogging!

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  4. Thanks everyone. I'm glad you like the bookmark.

    I was sure it looked better than the photos show Chiclet. I'm glad you love it. I've noticed that you haven't been blogging much lately. I didn't realize it has been 5 weeks now. I'm sure you have lots to blog about.

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  5. Your bookmark turned out really well.Lucky Chic.

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  6. Finally! FINALLY! I just posted about our bookmark exchange! Come on over and let me know what you think!! :)

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