Tatted motifs now in a square

Last time I showed you 2 of those motifs joined together, and now here are 2 more, and I have a square ! I don't know how many I will make like that....

I like how the cormer rings linked in the middle create yet another motif...

Tatted oval doily progress

Less posts these days, but this is quite a big project (aka time and thread consuming,  not really in size). 4 days to make this trefoil round. And now I started the last one...

Doily back from UFO town

Ages ago, I started this oval doily in size 30 thread. It was so long ago that I had cut the ongoing thread to get the shuttles back and use them on other projects, and this was way before the long tatting hiatus.

So I had to tat about 1/3 of the last round, and only at the end did I notice that I had worked the wrong way. But honnestly, the knots are so fine that you don't really see the difference.

I still have 2 rounds of trefoils to do...

Space dyed classic doily finished

I've been silent for a little while, but it was because I didn't want to post pictures daily with just a few more rosettes each time. So here is the final picture, after blocking. It was a nice doily to tat, the only thing was the 16 rosettes around. The nightmare was all those threads to tie and hide !

Now I'm tatting some more square motifs...

Doily update

Ah, glorious times, I post about once a day... from the lovely galaxy tab I use for almost everything. No, it doesn't cook toasts yet... I'm also enjoying Instagram more and more. It's so much fun !

Anyway,  this is a picture update, I'm on the last round of the doily, and it's basically many mini motifs joined to the centre. Many opportunities to do it wrong.... so I have to pay special attention. It also looks like it's flattening by itself somehow...

Space dyed classic doily progress

Here are pictures of my progress on the doily from the book New Tatting I really enjoy this, it's so lovely But after round 5, you can see that it's a bit ruffled Now I need to make something like 16 rosettes joined around the doily.

Tatted hex doily

I was playing with flower motifs, joining as I went, and voilà,  an hexagonal oily !

It's very close to the hydrangea doily in the book "New tatting", bit it's just chance.

New tatting is a book I bought yesterday on google play. I usually prefer to get the paper version of craft books, even if I have many patterns on my tablet. But I didn't want to wait, plus I always have my tablet or my phone close at hand, so it's like carrying the book wherever I go.

More on that tomorrow, with the current project (a pattern from the book, of course !)

Oval doily for Mom's birthday

Here is a little crochet interlude....

When I make gifts for people I know come lurking about my blog, I postpone posting about it. Yesterday (well, actually today, but we celebrated yesterday as it was Sunday) was my Mom's birthday, and I made her an oval doily for her console in the hall. As you can see the decorations around it, I was done for Easter !

It was a bit difficult because The original pattern was way smaller. I had to add rounds and rounds of chaines and stuff. Then blocking made marvels ;)

See you later for more tatting adventures...

Cobweb dolly done !

And just in time for mother's day too ! The long chains are a nightmare,  and blocking it helped a little bit,  but I am not 100 % satisfied. It was made in size 20 thread, and only measures 10 cm wide. Small, small doily.

I went back to play around with motifs, you will see that next time !

Cobweb doily tat along progress

As I'm getting back to tatting, I wanted to get requinted with the tatters and the tatting community. In Tatters has moved and is now Craftree, so there I go to see what's new with tatters. And I see there is a tatting along doily, and I joined it !

It's quite a simple doily, although the fact that there are loads of ds on rings and chains make it a bit awkward in the end.

I hope blocking will help solve the problem. I made it white because I intend to give it as Mother's day gift to my grandma, and she doesn't like coloured doilies. And yes, I celebrate my grandma on Mother's day and not grandma's day, because I come from a time when grandma's day didn't exist yet, so... we are creatures of habit ;)

Here are pictures of the doily are round two and round three.

Crochet Mandala

Here is a crochet mandala I made last month and forgot to post. My mother in law gave me some cotton samplers she got from a client of hers or something. Now I have no clue what to do with it ;)

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Voici un mandala au crochet que j'avais oublié de poster le mois dernier. Ma belle mère m'avait donné ces mini pelotes de coton qu'elle a eue à une de ses clientes. Et maintenant je ne sais pas vraiment quoi en faire.

Yellow doily

I know I don't put doilies in my home as they don't fit our modern decor, but I know others (looking at mom and grandma...) who are ready to "sacrifice" themselves to indulge my doily making addiction. I don't know who will adopt this one yet.

Yesterday I bought a mini crochet doily magazine (we have plenty in France), and finished this 20cm doily over the evening. 

I am now making the long version, in white. If this one is done in size 10 thread with a 1.25 mm hook, the white one is done in size 20 thread and a 1 mm hook.

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J'adore faire des napperons en crochet, mais ça ne va pas avec mon intérieur, heureusement je trouve toujours des gens pour les adopter. 

Hier j'ai acheté un des nombreux magazines de crochet, et j'ai fait ce napperon en une soirée, en fil 10 et crochet 1.25mm.

Maintenant je fais la version plus longue en fil 20 et crochet 1mm

Bunny doily

Once a year I like to make a filet doily for Easter. Preferably a bunny. I know filet crochet is old looking, but it's the first technique I learned as a teenager, and we could argue that it's close to pixel art...

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Une fois par an je fais un napperon de pâques en filet. C'est la première technique que j'ai utilisée au crochet étant ado, même si ça fait vieillot.  Maintenant on pourrait dire que c'est du pixel art...

A little crochet experiment

This is really just for fun. One doily pattern, 3 thread and hook sizes. So you get:
- 6cm for the 0.75mm hook with size 30 thread
- 7cm for the 1mm hook and size 20 thread
- 10cm for the 2mm hook and size10 thread

I think I prefer the smaller sizes, they are more precise and cute ;)

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Je me suis amusée à faire le même modèle de napperon, mais avec des crochets et fils différents. je préfère les plus petits, bien plus fins, le plus grand montre un travail assez grossier. Pourquoi ai-je fait ça? Pour avoir une idée du rendu pour les prochains napperons.... et leur taille.

Is it a doily or a tray?

Still in the spirit of Spring (what? am I repeating myself?) here is a little doily transformed into a tray. It's all cotton, fresh and sweet. You can put easter eggs in there and they won't roll off !!!

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Toujours dans l'esprit fleurs au crochet et Printemps (quoi? je me répète?), voici un napperon où on peut mettre ses oeufs de Paques sans qu'ils ne roulent partout !!!

Back to crochet

You might have noticed that I rotate my crafts....I can just imagine how many of you are wanting for cross stitch to come back.... ;)
But for the moment, it's crochet. Last time I tried to crochet I got carpel tunnel syndrome pains. I thought that wasit for me, no more crochet, I felt quite devasted, and cursed to knitting forever. But then all those lovely flowers from the book "100 flowers to knit and crochet" called to me, and I had to try them. And, hourra, I crocheted all week end, and my handsare fine ! What happened? I'm now using a wrist comforter when using the computer. I guess that helps.

Then I made coasters and doilies, and I now started a flower garland. It's Spring !!!!

Note that all technical details for these projects and my projects past and future are in my Picasa album, so check it out !

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Vous avez sûrement remarqué que j'aime changer de techniques, et c'est au tour du crochet. Je sais que certains se demandent quand le point de croix reviendra.... ;)


Mais pour le moment, c'est le crochet. La dernière fois que j'avais essayé de crocheter, j'ai eu mal à la main et au poignet, et j'ai bien cru que je devrais dire adieu au crochet à tout jamais. Mais voilà que j'ai eu vraiment envie de faire des fleurs du livre "100 flowers to knit and crochet", et depuis, j'ai crocheté tout le week end sans problème ! Je crois que le fait d'utiliser un pose poignet pour faire de l'ordinateur a aidé pas mal.


Donc après les fleurs, j'ai aussi fait des sous verres, des petits napperons...


Tous les détails techniques de ces projets (ainsi que mes projets passés et avenir) sont dans mon album Picasa, alors n'hésitez pas à aller voir !