just thought I'd put up for anyone interested the design ideas behind this necklace. I had a pretty free rein really and it just needed to be something modern, not flowery and fairly large but not heavy.
I have had the doughnut in my stash for years and thought it would make a good centerpiece and picked a thread I thought would match well, a very soft silky thread that I'm afraid was given to me so I really have no idea what it is. As it was a soft thread it really needed to be needle tatting, I don't think it would have stood up to all the twisting I seem to add to shuttle tatting.
So the intricacies of my design process, I popped the bead down on some paper and drew some loops round it. That's it really, and I wanted a gradually increasing chain so just increased the amount of knots on the way round, keeping note of the amounts so I could decrease the same on the way back round the other side. I wanted the fastening to be easy to do, but also to look like it was in keeping with the rest of the design, so I chose a toggle button and added a loop large enough for it to fit though right at the beginning. |
| about to start the centre design |
I had worked out, by measuring and counting, that I was tatting at 5 knots to a cm, so using a flexible ruler I just measured the loops as I got to them and tatted accordingly.
Then I repeated the chain on the other side to complete and added a toggle at the end.
And wrapped up lovely to go.
Well thanks for stopping by and please do leave some comments, its always lovely to read your thoughts.
thanks ally x
