I just don't need any excuses to tat this pattern. Not sure why but I just totally love it. Actually, I'll be honest, I love all Rosemarie Peel's work and particularly her celtic designs. She was the first person to do celtic tatting. By that I mean the sort where you make two parts separately, intertwine them and then 'lock' them together with a third round. Not the later type of celtic where you tat a long chain and 'tie a knot' in it. OK, it's not that 'simple' but it's just not for me. I've done one or two celtic designs and am reasonably pleased with them BUT I still think of Rosemarie as the 'Queen of Celtic Tatting'.
This one is made using two size 40 threads. The pale one is a Lizbeth thread and the variegated darker one is an old Coats one. The beads are a lovely lilac colour.
I really ought to block this one to make the central star show up properly but blocking is something I rarely do!!!!
It's so pretty in those colors!
ReplyDeleteWhich pattern book was this in? So pretty!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!! :)
ReplyDeleteYummy lilac, very nice.
ReplyDeleteIt's this one, Sherry. https://janeeborall.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/another-new-book.html
ReplyDeleteI often wondered if Rosemarie Peel was the first to come up with the interlocking Celtic design idea. I wonder how she thought of it! It was another major step forward for tatted lace! I remember seeing LaRue Mikulecky's bookmark on the internet at the library in 2000 and was blown away and fascinated. She gave full credit to Rosemarie Peel, a name new to me at that time. And I was even more amazed when I realized how cleverly and easily the interlocking was accomplished. I was so delighted when I finished tatting it. I actually have it in a frame, and it gets a lot of attention at our events. And another gal, Lenore English, tatted a different Celtic bookmark using Rosemarie's motif, but that one is a little trickier and intimidated me, so I've never attempted it. But it all started with Rosemarie!
ReplyDeleteI'm also fascinated with the woven-chain Celtic tatted designs, but I have to admit I haven't conquered that method yet. I seem to have some sort of mental block and can't do the weaving, even with a piece of string!