a lovely angel

I found this cute angel in Pinterest, a picture with numbers on it, I could not resist tatting it, it's so lovely!

Designed by Patrizia Pirocca. My first version has been tatted with a size 70 thread:

I tatted it again in DMC Cebelia n.10:

Chao
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_Spanish )
Ninetta

a pattern under the tree

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UPDATE (May 2020): this angel has a name! Thanks to some Facebook's friends, especially to Emanuela Ranieri.
Her name is "Ariel"
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It's worked with 2 shuttles, filled with two threads, pink 100% pure silk (seta Faro n.3) and DMC n.283 silver metallic thread (3 strands). That resulted about a size 10 thickness, but I've used the same pattern with a size 70 cotton thread.

The dress start from the neck, all external rings and split rings have a picot, tatting proceeds in a "S" wave, swapping first and second shuttle. Don't cut ends but leave a long tails in both. I left 20cm.

(post edited to update this picture with a better quality image)

Better a summary?

Wings are tatted separately:

Cut and tie the ends. Start the second wing, connecting the first row to the other wing.

The dress is closed in the back, using the long ends. How many ways to lace up your shoes? That's mine!

But there's the wings, so BEFORE the second last fastening, join wings in two points, as showed by those arrows: untie (not showed in the picture) join the bottom part of wings, then tie the second last picots, then join the middle picot of wings, then tie the last picots of the dress.

That's the result:

Then, to keep the "head" in the middle, I took one of the ends and passed through the central picot of the neck:

That's now the time for the head. I inserted both ends in a wooden bead, then added a sort of aureole as a little ring, 10 picots separated by 1ds, leaving a tail of about 10cm. I've inserted that tail from up to down, inside the head and the dress, joined a transparent plastic bead and anchored head and bead with a couple of knots. I passed inside the little ring the long tail coming from the dress.

That's where you may want to add a weight (a heavy bead) or a jingly bell charm!

Here it is, standing up and also dangling from my hand:

Buon Natale! Merry Christmas!
I'll be back with the new year. Happy holidays!
Ninetta

strength is in little things

It keep itself standing up, without any stiffener. It is soft white dmc cotton, size 70, the pattern is that one in previous post, still to be refined. I should tat a couple more, what do you think about one pink and another light blue?

I think its strength come from its short size. I doubt that an higher cone would have supported the weight of the wings and of the pearl used as head.

Have you ever seen an angel from this inconvenient perspective?

Between an angel and the other, I finished the Morimoto's doily (http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2015/06/glutton.html), I found the right colour number at the craft fair in October, so also Mr. Meticulous will be happy for Christmas!!


Ciao,
Ninetta.

What makes it an angel

What it lacks is more than what it has. Wings, of course. Skirt, possibly.

Pattern can't claim originality, but has not been copied and wasn't a miracle as it came out after many trials! One of the first attemps was starting from a doily, like that paper angels that I saw here: http://couturecraft.blogspot.com/2010/11/paper-angels.html  
But my first angel was misshapen, by all means I did something wrong, so I thought it was better tatting 3 parts. The cool angel next year!

Thread is metallic silver dmc 283, size 70, the angel is 4cm high. Body and wings are tatted separately.
I tatted it with cotton, too. I should show you.

Ciao,
Ninetta