Thursday, December 4, 2014

The Second Day of December...kind of

So. Yeah. It's not really the second day of December!

When I decided to do daily posts this month I totally discounted the fact that I am packing all my stuff up to move to Australia in 1 week and have no time for anything, least of all tatting. :(

So, here it is, the 4th of December, and I am hopelessly behind on this monthlong book review...

Here is what I have done so far of the second pattern of Lene Bjørn's 24 Snowflakes in Tatting:
"The Second Day of December"

So close, yet so far!!

Number of Patterns: There are 24 patterns in this book (amazing, right?!) and (Types of Patterns) all are snowflakes (obvs...see the title!). 

Type of Pattern Notation: The patterns are all diagrammed in black and white line drawings, and also have some short explanations of what to do to correctly implement the pattern. (Ex: The snowflake is made in 5 rounds according to the diagram...there are 6 ds between each picot). These explanations are very helpful, but not 100% necessary unless you are very unfamiliar with diagrams. 

Hopefully tomorrow I will have time to tat...we'll see! :)

4 comments:

  1. The picture at top left is the mind blowing snowflake, make you go cu cu for the holidays, well that's what is wrong with me any way ha ha ha!

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    1. Yeah, it's one that is intimidating me...luckily it's not until day 18, and at the rate I'm going, I may never get there!! :)

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  2. I have done several from this book, they always work out well.
    Lovely snowflake
    Margaret

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    1. Thanks Margaret! I've done 3 now, and so far the 3rd is my favorite (it's the fluffy one)...here's hoping I make it to number 4! :)

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