Bracelet with Hematite

[Sephers]

I've seen and used so many great designs I want to learn to start sharing my own. Not to mention when I go home for thanksgiving to visit my family my mother wants me to teach her to tat and has already asked me to send her some of the designs I have.
I need the practice in writing down the designs I come up with so she can understand what I'm trying to tell her, so I figure the best way is to share with you all and if you make it then you can tell me if it went well or not.

*made with size 20 black thread, and 4mm hematite beads

~ Sephoria

[Judy]

Ok, I'll test your pattern tomorrow.

[simplicity]

:emoji-E022:That is really lovely! I was just at the bead shop today. It was really fun to look around. First I am going to do some ear rings.

[helen]

That's elegantly lovely. Thank you for sharing. helen

[soyloquesoy]

Thanks for sharing the pattern! I have been looking for a bracelet pattern that highlights the beads, and this is going to be perfect!

I shuttle tatt so I will have to adapt a bit the technique, but the design is lovely and I am sure it is going to work well.

May I add a piece of advice? Give credit to yourself and add your name and an email address inside the pattern file - I always appreciate that!

[Sunny_0ne]

Sephers, I also LOVE how the pattern highlights the beads. It's very pretty!

[Sephers]

Thanks for sharing the pattern! I have been looking for a bracelet pattern that highlights the beads, and this is going to be perfect!

I shuttle tatt so I will have to adapt a bit the technique, but the design is lovely and I am sure it is going to work well.

May I add a piece of advice? Give credit to yourself and add your name and an email address inside the pattern file - I always appreciate that!

I couldn't think of a way to adapt it, but then I don't shuttle tat either. Maybe you can figure it out ^.^ And I'll try to remember your advice I've just never really worried about it before.

Thank you all for the lovely compliments, I do appreciate them very much.

[Green Gal]

How happy was I to see something that starts with the words Pull......CLOSE TO THE NEEDLE. Makes my little needle tatting heart feel all fuzzy and warm inside :)

One question though what size beads and thread did you use?

[Sephers]

Haha glad I could give you the warm fuzzies :) I used size 20 thread and I believe 4mm Hematite beads.

[Joy]

Just lovely thanks for the pattern
Hugs
Joy

[Susan B T]

Very nice pattern... I am not into black it is perfect for the hematite.

[celticflame99]

Very Pretty. I'll try this out tomorrow. Does it work up quickly?

[helen]

wow. thanks heaps for the pattern. hugs

[fairmar]

This bracelet is lovely! Haven't looked at the pattern, but I will be trying it. Thanks! You must put a lot of time into writing it up.

[Sephers]

Yes it works up pretty quickly, only took about an two ours to do for me, probably less if I didn't have to stop and chase the little monster around the house so often. :) I tried to be write the instructions where they were simple to understand but still very thorough, my mom gets confused very easily. :P I know split rings are a little difficult to understand if you haven't done them before, and I defiantly think this bracelet is good practice for them.

[Green Gal]

Thanks again. I will make sure to use the correct size beads next time. I didn't wait for your reply and used some oval beads which wasn't a success. Doh! :doh:

[Frivole]

Lovely pattern Sephers, simple and elegant. But I was going to say the same as Soyloquesoy: please put your name on your pattern. It's a shame that people will print it, use it, keep it but then we'll forget who created it or where we got it from!
Thanks for sharing it with us.

Best wishes,
Frivole

[rsmre]

Hi Sephers,
I want to thank you for this lovely pattern, too. I appreciate you generosity and your talent. For heaven's sake, take credit for your accomplishments.
rsmre

[Sephers]

Lol I just didn't think about putting my name and what not on it, I'd never done it before. . . I promise I will always remember to do so from here on out! :)

[Frivole]

Hi Sephers,

I've had a go at adapting your pattern for the shuttles... we don't have the advantage of being able to "unthread the needle and pass the thread through the bead"... it's not perfect yet but here's a little bit of it shuttle-tatted in different colours:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1025/5181407078_68f8d1c138.jpg

I do like the design, it's very attractive. Thanks again!

Best wishes,
Frivole

[Sephers]

Hi Sephers,

I've had a go at adapting your pattern for the shuttles... we don't have the advantage of being able to "unthread the needle and pass the thread through the bead"... it's not perfect yet but here's a little bit of it shuttle-tatted in different colours:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1025/5181407078_68f8d1c138.jpg

I do like the design, it's very attractive. Thanks again!

Best wishes,
Frivole


Ooo that came out very well! I was wondering how you were going to pull that off with a shuttle. . . Now you're defiantly gonna have to explain it to me lol
It looks very pretty in blue. Currently I'm doing a altered version for myself in a purple :)

[Frivole]

Thanks Sephers! Can't wait to see your new version in purple - you will show it to us, won't you?

Best wishes,
Frivole

[soyloquesoy]

Hi frivole! I love your shuttle tatted version too.. I have been thinking a lot about how to do it with shuttle, but have not been able to do it with thread and beads at hand. If you can share the way you did it, I would be most grateful!

[Green Gal]

Whoops this is what happens when I run amok with a pattern. I used oval instead of round which threw out the count for the chain. So I got grumpy and replaced the chain with josephine chains. The original is much better but I had fun.



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[Sunny_0ne]

Hi Sephers,

I've had a go at adapting your pattern for the shuttles... we don't have the advantage of being able to "unthread the needle and pass the thread through the bead"... it's not perfect yet but here's a little bit of it shuttle-tatted in different colours:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1025/5181407078_68f8d1c138.jpg

Best wishes,
Frivole

Frivole, I LOVE those blues! That is beautiful!

[PattyD]

Hmm, there is a technique invented by Bina Madden where you pull a loop of the shuttle thread through the bead and then use the loop over method from the beginning of the ring. By enlarging the loop that is pulled through the bead and dividing it into the working thread and a loop for the core thread, you can work the ring (remember to leave a picot for joining). After the ring is complete, close the ring the same way an SSSR is closed and draw the excess shuttle thread back through the bead and then continue with the chain. Sounds like I really need to try this!

[soyloquesoy]

yeah, I need to get my hands on thread and beads to try all this too!

[Frivole]

I just threaded the beads onto the shuttle thread (the one you wrap around your hand to do the split rings). After the split ring, I pulled up a bead and then with a crochet hook, I pulled through a loop of the thread from the other shuttle (the one that doesn't have the beads on), passed the shuttle through the loop and then pulled it snug against the bead so that both shuttles are on the other side of the bead to carry on with the next split ring. Does that make sense?

But I am intrigued by the technique mentioned by Patty D... I can't picture it at the moment, I shall have to go investigate!

Sunny One, thank you! I always like turquoise and those bluey-greens... or greeny-blues...

Frivole

[Sephers]

I love all the solutions and the differences! I like the Josephine knot also it's very pretty. I'm defiantly going to have to try to redo it with shuttles now :) If anyone else is doing the design too I'd love to see how theirs came out.

[Frivole]

PattyD,
Been trying this method you suggest, but so far it's escaping me!! I cannot figure out how to close the ring... I must be going wrong somewhere. Wish I could find another tutorial on it - have you tried it?

Sephers,
Thanks for setting us this challenge! I've got to find a way of making your pattern work with shuttles now! My way works but there is a thread running on the outside of the bead and it would be much better if that could be avoided.

Frivole

[PattyD]

Frivole,

Here's a sketch of how to make the ring through a bead. I hope it tells you what you need to know.

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[carolivy]

Very cool drawing Patty! Very clear explaination of the SSSR!

[PattyD]

This is actually an extension of the SSSR loop over concept. Midway through a normal shuttle ring, the working thread is drawn through a bead and the loop drawn through the bead is divided into a new working thread and a looped over core thread that finger tats DS on the working thread. The working thread should be the section of the drawn through loop that comes through the bead directly from the completed DS on the first ring. (See why I drew a picture?) The second loop is closed as in an SSSR by pulling on the side of the loop that closes the second ring. It is at the closing stage that I think Frivole had a problem. If the wrong side of the loop drawn through the bead is worked as DS, there is no way to close the second ring. After the second ring is closed, the loop of the doubled core thread is placed over the base of the second ring. Finally, the excess loop thread is drawn back out through the bead by the pulling on the working thread of the first ring. I think I'll take a rest now!

[PattyD]

Frivole,
I made 2 attempts at the ring through a bead and they didn't close. That's why I know what the problem is!

[carolivy]

Thanks for letting me know the difference Patty.

[Frivole]

Thank you so much for all your hard work in explaining it Patty! I've been working on it today and I'VE GOT IT!!! I was actually making my DSs on the wrong bit of thread and that's why my ring wouldn't close. I think I will start a separate thread with a photo of the result as I'm chuffed with it! (and also because I feel we've "hijacked" Sepher's bracelet thread!!)

Now I can do actually do the pattern in one round with this new technique, and of course, with no thread running on the outside of the bead! Sorry if I'm being overly enthusiastic but I'm all excited to have learned something so completely new to me!

Frivole

[Sherongb]

How about 2 shuttles CTM, work in one pass rather than two. This avoids an aligator join around the picot. You would need to make the beaded picots as long picots pulled through the bead and a pin or something put through the loop to keep it there until you join back to it. I can see it in my mind but haven't worked it or written it out yet, need to try it.

You can start and end the chain with the bracelet findings holding the beginning picot of the first chain, and at the end of the last chain.

[Sephers]

I never thought of that, I'm defiantly going to have to try it that way when I get the chance to do the bracelet again and see how well I do.

[carolivy]

That was the way I "saw" it too Sheron is with the long picots for the beads. Haven't had time with everything I'm trying to get finished for Christmas to even give it a try yet though.

[soyloquesoy]

This is my version: 8319

I used two shuttle split rings, slid the beads after each one (so there is a bit of red bare thread under each bead), and went back in a second "round" doing the chain. I used an alligator join (I think that is the proper name, I just passed the core and stitches threads one over and the other under each bead base) I figured as double stitches are knots, I did not tie the join in any particular way, just made sure the first half of the first stitch was vary close to the last one. Of course, I reversed the work before doing this at the start of each chain section, and changed shuttles too.

I really liked the pattern - Thanks so much for sharing.

I am not sure I understand yet how to do it in a single pass and using split rings, but I have not sat down with threads and this instructions yet ;)

[Sephers]

This is my version: 8319

I used two shuttle split rings, slid the beads after each one (so there is a bit of red bare thread under each bead), and went back in a second "round" doing the chain. I used an alligator join (I think that is the proper name, I just passed the core and stitches threads one over and the other under each bead base) I figured as double stitches are knots, I did not tie the join in any particular way, just made sure the first half of the first stitch was vary close to the last one. Of course, I reversed the work before doing this at the start of each chain section, and changed shuttles too.

I really liked the pattern - Thanks so much for sharing.

I am not sure I understand yet how to do it in a single pass and using split rings, but I have not sat down with threads and this instructions yet ;)

That's fabulous :) It makes me think of peppermint for some reason though. . .

[Frivole]

Soyloquesoy, looks great! That is exactly the technique I used for my first attempt!

Here is another version with the technique mentioned by PattyD. Doing it that way avoids having a thread running on the outside of the bead.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5198801504_feae756720.jpg

The top version is like yours Soyloquesoy and the bottom version is with a loop tatted through the bead. A very interesting technique I am pleased to have learned. It also enables you to do the whole bracelet in one pass. But I must admit, it does change the shape a bit... on the last three motifs, I didn't reverse just to see what it would look like so they all face the same way.

Now I need to try the version with putting the bead on a picot between the rings instead as Sherongb suggested... see what that looks like.

Sephers, I hope you don't feel we've taken over your thread?! It's just been an interesting exercise trying to "translate" your pattern.

Best wishes,
Frivole

[soyloquesoy]

That's fabulous :) It makes me think of peppermint for some reason though. . .
Its those striped beads. Aren't they a bit like some mints?

Thanks for the nice comment :)

[soyloquesoy]

Soyloquesoy, looks great! That is exactly the technique I used for my first attempt!

Here is another version with the technique mentioned by PattyD. Doing it that way avoids having a thread running on the outside of the bead.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5198801504_feae756720.jpg

The top version is like yours Soyloquesoy and the bottom version is with a loop tatted through the bead. A very interesting technique I am pleased to have learned. It also enables you to do the whole bracelet in one pass. But I must admit, it does change the shape a bit... on the last three motifs, I didn't reverse just to see what it would look like so they all face the same way.

Now I need to try the version with putting the bead on a picot between the rings instead as Sherongb suggested... see what that looks like.

Sephers, I hope you don't feel we've taken over your thread?! It's just been an interesting exercise trying to "translate" your pattern.

Best wishes,
Frivole

Yes, the comparison and playing around is so much fun! Both of yours turned out great, frivole!
I can totally "see" sherongb's way in my mind, but not Patty's. The long weekend is over here so I don't think I'll have much chance of sitting to try that one, but I may give the other one a go.

[Sephers]

Soyloquesoy, looks great! That is exactly the technique I used for my first attempt!

Here is another version with the technique mentioned by PattyD. Doing it that way avoids having a thread running on the outside of the bead.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/5198801504_feae756720.jpg

The top version is like yours Soyloquesoy and the bottom version is with a loop tatted through the bead. A very interesting technique I am pleased to have learned. It also enables you to do the whole bracelet in one pass. But I must admit, it does change the shape a bit... on the last three motifs, I didn't reverse just to see what it would look like so they all face the same way.

Now I need to try the version with putting the bead on a picot between the rings instead as Sherongb suggested... see what that looks like.

Sephers, I hope you don't feel we've taken over your thread?! It's just been an interesting exercise trying to "translate" your pattern.

Best wishes,
Frivole

Oh those came out very nice :D
When you don't reverse, that would be the pattern I have seen running around in so many places lol

[Joy]

You have done a great job
Hugs
Joy

[Izabela]

I like your bracelet. I will try to make it very soon. Thank You.

[carolivy]

Here is my version of the bracelet. I did the rings with the SSSR, then came back and did the chain. I used an allegator join for the chain, reversing each section of the chain as I went to keep it going the right way. The chain looks like it is all made in 1 pass, flipping this way and that as it goes around the rings. I used both round and square hematite beads.
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[soyloquesoy]

Nice Carol! You describe very well, you did it the same way I did my first one. Yes, first... I have been playing with this pattern again, doing it in yet another different way - I'm not very pleased with it, though!

[Deanna54]

Very pretty! I love hematite and black.

[PeonyRose]

Awwwwwwww love this pattern Thankyou for sharing it. I am experimentin g with beaded tatting at the moment, so look forward to making thsi bracelet up.