Doily in progress

 

In my stash of thread I selected some colors that made me feel happy - sort of a Marshall Fields 1972 happy!☺ The vivid magenta red and dark green are both vintage Flora threads, the shaded pink to green is my own hand dyed, and the cream is Lizbeth color 612. All size 20, although the Flora 20 is very slightly thicker than Lizbeth they are working well together.

The pattern is my own "Daylily Dance". Many thread ends to hide, but playing with the colors is fun so it seems worth the trouble.

Oops! I made a mistake that needed to be cut out in the second triangular motif. So, I  rewound the shuttle with continuous thread from the ball to continue the tatting. While cutting out the mistake I made sure to cut far enough out to leave at least a short core thread tail along with the ball thread tail to hide under some double stitches in the following chain, staggering the abandonment of each tail to give a gradual thickness reduction. I cut the tails off after finishing that motif.

The motifs need to be joined at the correct picots in order for everything to fit. In the pattern there are diagrams and photos to show where to join.

Almost halfway there! By the way, the "Daylily Dance" pattern is available as an instant download on both Goimagine and Etsy.