Sunday, 5 January 2020

Fir Tree

On the day when Christmas decorations are being taken down I have tatted a fir tree up to look like a decorated tree.


The pattern is another one from Inga Madsen’s ‘12 Tatted Fairy-Tales.’ As you can see I made sure that it has coloured lights on it by included lots of seed beads.  In the book it is illustrated in white and instead of a star on top there is a bird.  I have used hand dyed thread and this one is called forest. 

I am tempted to make another one as I am particularly eager to use up the container of mixed beads (bead soup) that has grown over the years, mainly because of spillages. 

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  1. Lovely! I have that book and I have bead soup from similar spillages. Hmmm...

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  2. What a smart way to use up those leftover beads that always seem to collect.

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    1. I hate wastage even if it is only tiny beads so this is an ideal way of using them up.

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  3. Excellent pattern and use of beads! Did you do this in one day?

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    1. No Kathy it took me days, but then I only have, at the best a couple of hours a day to devote to tatting

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  4. Hi Tatters,
    I just started to Tatt again after many years.
    I am trying to make the Butterfly paper clip bookmark and can't figure out how to attach it to the paper clip.
    Can someone help me or direct to a YouTube site
    Bob Landry

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