New pattern! High Gear
Both the "with gear" and "gearless" instructions are included in the same pattern, now listed in my Etsy shop.
The brass gear of 15.5 mm diameter used in the pattern is available from Fire Mountain Gems, part number H20-B2153FN. (It may be available from other vendors, but that's where I found it.) With the gear, size 20 thread, size 11/0 seed beads and 6mm round beads are needed. The pattern is written from the shuttle tatting perspective.
The "gearless" version of the pattern uses a tatted center in place of a gear. This enables different sizes of thread and beads to be used, making a larger or smaller motif. It also ensures that this pattern will not become "obsolete" should the gear component ever stops being manufactured! ☺
4 comments:
Nice! :)
Very clever to have the two versions. I imagine the gear for real adds a bit of weight?
Very cool! I love seeing your designs.
To answer the question about whether the gear adds weight, I weighed both pairs of earrings on my postal scale. One pair with the metal gear, and the other pair with the tatted 'gear". They weigh the same! 3 grams each.
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