Using a pinneapple pattern for flower petals.

[SnapdragonLace]

Hi everyone!

I'm creating a hairpiece for a friend's wedding. The wedding flowers are stargazer lilies and the big catch is that she doesn't like the tatting "with all the rings and loops."

Sigh.

So we went trough a bunch of pattern books and she picked out what she likes. Luckily she does like the patterns with a lot of chains on top of chains so I thought I'd modify a pineapple design for the petals of the lilies. (For those who think I mean the fruit when I say pineapple, here's a pretty butterfly with pineapple wings: http://picasaweb.google.com/AeonSpider/TattingBracelets#5079759453761026754)

The catch? I don't actually have any pinneapple patterns. Does anyone have suggestions for designing pineapples or some patterns that could be modified?

Thanks!

[Beelizabeth]

Teri Dusenbury at The Tatting Guru has some patterns based on tatted pineapples-- including the butterfly in the picture you linked to. The location is http://teritatbitdusenbury.wordpress.com/ . Look in her pattern library on the right hand side bar.

[Antiquarian]

http://teritatbitdusenbury.wordpress.com/tatbits-pdf-library/

I think this is the same thing as above, only a more direct link. Look under the tatted butterfly collection; it's not that far down. Good luck with the lilies.:thmbup:

[SnapdragonLace]

Awesome. Thanks to both of you for those links. I think I'll get some good ideas off of them.

~Jessica

[tatknot]

Keep us posted about how it's going.