Summer Challenge - KNOTS Tatting

[shannon_in_love]

gosh i really wish i was right there with you to help. but i know you will get it right...i know it...maybe...yes definitely.!!!

[StephanieGrace]

Thank you, Shannon. It's just really nice to have a place to be able to rant, rave, and whine while learning. LOL. (Highlight of my weekend: I was told my mom made split chains, which she told me she couldn't do when I showed them to her -on needle, by the way. LOL. I showed up at her house and she was so thrilled and proud of herself and I smiled and had to laugh because she was doing one big, long chain of split rings and had NO ideas what she was doing it for or what it would be... How cute, right? LOL. THEN, I got to teach her the method that xstitchntat taught me with rings from a cut length of thread and chains off the ball. She got it! I'm very proud of her! :-) Okay, okay... I should be tatting. LOL.

-Stephanie Grace

[shannon_in_love]

i actually just made a video today addressing split chains on needle... i personally think they are much easier on needle than shuttle

[coretta]

I recently won Coats and Clark Book#229 on Ebay. So I have some of the patterns that are on Knots. I am happy to share if that's something I can do. Is it "legal" to post the pattern or scan it for sharing?

[Kersti]

When I went to the Knots page, I noticed that some of the links led to a pattern and an old picture. Then some had a picture but no pattern, just the reference to the book the pattern was in.

Is your challenge to tat the item from the pattern?
If no pattern is available (I don't believe we get KNOTS here in the US), could I make a pattern from the picture that is available?

Hi Bill

KNOTS is certainly available in the US - it's not a printed product, it is the online site you're seeing.

The purpose of the site is to catalog all patterns that are available, whether online, in print or vintage, for sale or for free. I try to put up one a day, although this does change and you'll often see a flurry of updates after a period of none. I also try to mix them up a little so you don't get two months worth of vintage only patterns. You'll also find links to blogs and other tatting-related websites. I'm seriously thinking of changing this practice and just putting a mass of them up every so often.

Where there is a photograph available I use that, although I'm much happier to use one from our members if one is available. Where the pattern comes from a book I include the image of the book. If it's a vintage pattern that is not public domain some of them will be available but not all - let me know if you do not have access to the original and if I do I can help you out.

For the challenge it's important that the image is of the pattern that is being represented. Some of the photos are clear enough to do stitch counting, but we wouldn't want that to be wrong and then have a newbie choose that pattern based on a photograph only to find that they do not get the same result.

The photos for the challenge are to replcace the vintage photos/drawings or complete lack of any image. In the case of vintage this often shows a pattern in a totally different light and can make what was an old fashioned item seem quite modern.

[Karen Wattai]

Would love to get involved with a challenge - now that my hand is recuperating from surgery. Would be just the physical therapy it needs!!! More details, please?????

[Josie Passell]

Hi Karen It's lovely to see you back on the forum. Glad you are recovering, it can be so frustrating not being able to do things. I think this is what you want to know, some of the pictures of the older tatting on the knots section need to be tatted and photographed. Kersti has put in this thread or somewhere that it has to be tatted to the original pattern to give a true representation.

[mistyknits]

I finished "Star in Tatting" by Beeton, but an having a devil of a time trying to add it to my album. I did not block the motif. Here it is.

[shannon_in_love]

nice. did you do this shuttle or needle and did you use picot gauges? if its saying its too large, there is an online picture resizer. try that sometime.

[mistyknits]

Thank you for your kindness. I used a shuttle. I did not use picot gauges. I am one of those that "eyeball" my picots. When I have more time to fiddle with it, I will try one of the picture resizers. Thanks for the idea.