More Bocher Samples

Here is another sample from the Bocher Book for the Online Tatting Class. This is a floret, it would have been longer but I ran out of thread on the shuttle so it is just a short piece.

I have been working on the needle tatting for class but am still struggle with it. I can finally make a decent ring but the chain is now giving me trouble. I need to find a video online to watch maybe that will help me out.

I am also working on some hairpin tatting. I find that is very time consuming I have a lot to get done before class next week. It isn't difficult and will look wonderful when I get it finished.

Then I saw on InTatters they are hosting a bookmark exchange. I would like to join but my time for tatting is at a premium right now. With working and being on the road an hour and a half each way it does eat into my time. Maybe I should give up the work and just concentrate on the tatting.

March Tatting

Here it is the end of March and I haven't posted hardly anything. I have been tatting though. I am working on my Bocher Models for The Online Tatting Class. Here are some of the patterns I have been working on. I have no pictures to help with the patterns. So sometimes it is a guess as to where they picots or joins are suppose to be. In one pattern I work one of the sections call for an extra picot which made the ring larger. I couldn't find anything to tell me different so I made it that way. Then I made another one with out the extra stitches and I thought it worked out much neater.



This purple piece is called an edging but it has a lot of curve to it and would need to go on a circle project. The first one of these i made was in green and I was going to use it on a journal page for my sister's flower journal I am making, but.....Sadie had other plans and I only found bits and pieces of it on the floor. I try very hard to make sure any tatting is put up where she can't find it. She can destroy something in a matter of minutes. This morning she grabbed a ball of tatting tread and I had to bribe her with a treat to get it back.





I am still working on this pattern. It is difficult to get it to lay flat with the instructions that I have. I am going to try it using two shuttles to see if I can get a smoother look to the pattern. I do like it and think in a finer thread it would look great as a hanky edge. Here it is done in size 20 and the bottom blue one in size 10. I don't remember what thread I used.

I have been working on Easter Eggs. I will have to wait to post them as I have not scanned them yet.

Yesterday we had horrible weather, snow, sleet, rain and more snow. They were saying we had black ice this morning so I did not go to work. That means I can join the Online Tatting Class at three today instead of 8 tonight. The sun is out now and most of the snow is melting. I will be so glad when Spring really gets here and the snow is gone for a few more months.

This last piece is the first time through on an edging. I like the pattern and think it too would look great on a hanky. Since I have lots of nieces and great nieces I can practice a lot on hankies for them. I don't care for the red and green I used but it was on the shuttles and I need to finish them off so I could put on something else. All three of these patterns are from the Bocher Book we are restoring for the Online Tatting Class.

I am still having issues with my new glass and that makes it difficult for almost everything I try to do. I am thinking I will go back and have the lines put back in them so I can see what I am looking at. This weekend I was having issues with reading a book and when I was working on my sister's journal the pages moved ever time I turned my head. Not a fun feeling.

My first.....

Today I am showing off some of my "first". This is my first foray into front/back side tatting. As long as I remember what I was doing it was fun. A couple of time I had to unknot knots because I didn't start with the 2ds. All in all it was a fun experience and I will probably do some more of this type of tatting. I am going to count this motif as part of my 25 Motif Challenge. It is from the Emanuel Bocher 1912 Tatting Book we are studying and restoring in the Online Tatting class.

Then it was my first attempt at needle tatting. It only took me about two hours to do this one little ring and there isn't much tension in it. I don't think I like needle tatting but am will to work at it until I become more proficient.

Bocher Book Model and samples.

Well today was the first day of DST and it is not my favorite time of the year. It takes so long to adjust. Today I have just been tired and sleep all afternoon. I won't be staying up late tonight and tomorrow will get here way to soon. I am still driving 80 miles to go to work every day. I haven't yet seen a paycheck! It seems they are having a problem figuring out how to pay us. I hope they get it together soon as I can't afford to do this without gas money.

I have been working on models for The Online Tatting Class project. Here is my model of the original Four Point Star from the Bocher 1912 Tatting Book. It is the third one I have done and next one I do will be with front/back side tatting. I hope to get going on that this week. I have worked a couple of other samples from the book. They are mostly homework assignments but were fun to do.

I didn't have much thread on my shuttles when I worked this piece. It was the modification pattern using Josephine Knots. I do like to make JK they are so different and make a nice element to a project.

The yellow piece is left over from my yellow edging I was working on and yes, I did finally find it. The edging is complete I only have to add it to the hanky and then I can post it for all to see. This piece is the original pattern from the Bocher book. I like this one as well and may do enough to edge another hanky.

And finally, the green piece if a sample from the Bocher Book. I can't use it as a model because I have an error in it. But you can see how it is working up.

It is sleeting outdoors and Sadie is insisting on staying out. Such a silly little dog she is. She did miss the two deer that just wandered through the yard. I don't think she will stay out too long as it is cold. Earlier she lost a piece of a treat under the oven and she keeps scratching at the oven trying to get it. I tired to fool her and put a piece under there when she was out, but it didn't work as she is still looking.

Two Color Four Point Star

Here is the second version on the Large Star of Four Points from the 1912 Emmanuel Bocher Tatting Book. I am going to do one more version in front/back side tatting. I have never done front/back side tatting so it may be a test of my tatting skills.

I think Sadie has settled into my new routine. She was not nearly as hyper last night as she has been and today she is very calm for her. She has been out a lot today but now is in under my feet or trying to chew on them.

New Motif for 25 Motif Challenge

Here is the next motif for the 25 Motif Challenge. It is from the 1912 Emmanual Bocher Tatting Book. We are restoring this book during the Online Tatting Class with Georgia. I volunteered to work on pages 88 through 91. There were no pictures to work from and this is what I ended up with. It was a challenge as I like to have the pictures to look at when tatting. It helps to do the pattern, especially some of the vintage patterns. I was happy with the way this was turned out and now I am going to do it in two colors and then I will attempt to do front/back side tatting for one of the samples. When I started these pages I though I was going to have a couple of different motifs but to my surprise it was only this one. There are a lot of people participating in this project and so far it has been fun. I hope to do some more pages and find more challenging pieces to work on. Which shouldn't be difficult as there are 235 pages in this book. It was originally in French.

Working has been a blast this week. I love the interaction with the people and the challenges with taking care of the issues. I do not live the 70 mile drive one way but so far and doing okay. Sadie has been a wild dog when I get home. She was not accustomed to being out all day and is hyper when I get home but still wants to be out. I called my sister, that gave me the dog, and told her I thought Sadie was ADHD. She was so bad the other night I made her go to bed. She sleeps in a dog crate and I can lock her in. It was the only way my feet were going to get some peace. She certainly was living up to her breeds nickname of Little Devil Dog!