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| "Linnea" bracelet in progress |
The large Clover picot comb comes in handy for measuring picots that will have beads placed over them. I'm not one to use a picot gauge much at all, but the Linnea pattern has a lot of picots that will be covered in size 8/0 seed beads in the next row. Too many for the paper clip method of holding beads on temporarily. I found that 2 bars of the comb made the picots the right size!
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| Clover picot comb in use. |
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| Picture of me in my "studio" wearing my new eyeglasses. |
New multi-focal glasses for me now that recovery from cataract surgery is done! Everything is so clear and bright now. Ordinary reading glasses work okay for close work like tatting, but I prefer to not have to put on glasses to see close, then having to take them off to see distance, so the multifocal glasses are perfect for me. My distance vision isn't quite 20/20 anyway so they have just the right amount of correction.
Recently I watched someone "melting" the ends of Liz Metallic thread and got overly excited about it. I do have some experience melting the ends of nylon macramé cord which works well and I had all sorts of dreams of easy finishing of Liz Metallic projects in the same manner. At the Tollway Tatters zoom meeting on Saturday I was offered some really helpful advice : experiment first on a practice piece! So I did and here's some photos.
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| Yes, that's a scary flame! |
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| The side of the lighter extinguished the flame, but... |
That candle-like type of flame is not what I've experienced with nylon cord. Also the knot did not seal, it came apart. So, I'll just stay with sewing the ends in to finish them, as with cotton thread.
I still love working with Liz Metallic thread! Here's my current bobbin lace project in progress using the colors of "Seafoam" and "Sand Dollar". The lace collar pattern is "Pareis" by Colette Varet. I've made this pattern before in Liz Metallic "Bright Gold".
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| Bobbin lace "Pareis" collar in progress. |
5 comments:
A stylish aid to picot length! I suppose that metallic threads are more difficult to thread in than normal thread? I guess that’s why someone was excited about an alternative. Pity it’s not safe nor effective!
That bracelet is going to be gorgeous!!! :) *already is! ;)
The collar looks great!
Glad to know what not to do with the metallic thread. ;)
Lovely tatting, and so pleased you can see much better now, I dont think I will be playing with the metallic thread like that
I am a lazy tatter and did all my snowflakes and trees in Liz metallic. I use the a thread burner from fire mountain gems because the flame kinda scared me. Love you new glasses , so glad your vision is better❤️
Shanda
Thank you for trying this out. I have learned something valuable; to my work and to my students.
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