I really enjoyed doing the 25 Motif Challenge and have decided to start another one. I found it helped keep me motivated to do some tatting each month :).
For my first motif, I decided to tat the Happy Heart pattern which can be found on Le Blog de Frivole. For this pattern, I finally figured out how to do the Catherine-Wheel Join! Yay! Not sure why I avoided learning until now! I found these two Catherine-Wheel Join tutorials very helpful: Jane Eborall's and Marilee Rockley's tutorials.
That's it for now. Thanks for visiting my blog :).
Cheers,
Jenn :).
P.S. for more info about the challenge, please visit 25 Motif Challenge blog :).
It's always great to learn something new, isn't it :-) And luckily for us, there are some great resources to fall back on !
ReplyDeleteYes it's great to learn something new :). I suspect there are heaps of techniques for tatting that I haven't gotten around to learning it :).
DeleteAnd the list keeps growing !!! Loads and loads of techniques waiting their turn ;-P
DeleteBut I just wanted to add my own observation (based on my learning experience) --- once you've learned the CWJ, the same basic movements, the same logic seems to apply to Split Chains. At least to one of the methods . So in case you haven't this may be a good time to learn it while the CWJ is still fresh. Also the Lark’s head join.
I think some techniques should be "clubbed" together while learning.
Just sharing what worked for me. Please excuse the liberty.
Thanks muskaan for your suggestions :). Now that you mentioned it, the CWJ does remind me of one of the methods for split chains from Karen C's YouTube videos :). Thanks for letting me know about the Lark's head join being similar! Will look that up and try find a motif pattern using it :).
DeleteVery cute heart!! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Sue :).
DeleteYour CW joins are terrific! : )
ReplyDeleteThank you :).
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