Doesn't it seem like the more things change, the more they are the same? Look at this article about the importance of good highways written 100 years ago.
Unfortunately, the bottom half of the article is pasted over with another patter.
In the last blog I showed this page with flat pictures of my great grandmother's finished beaded collars. Here is another picture of the first one on a form so you can see the detail better.
And now we come to the point of this series of blogs. I am constantly amazed at even though the mediums may be different, many of the designs are very similar. Below, on the left is the necklace my grandmother made. On the right is a tatted necklace that was inspired by the beaded one. I still need to block it so that it will hold its shape better, but I liked the way it turned out.
The main challenge was finding beads that were large enough to let the tatting needle go through them. I used large glass beads (I think about a size 6 or 8) that I found in a wire and bead jewelry kit from a JoAnn's Store. The beads on the picots at the outside edge of the tatting were threaded onto the ball end of the thread before I began the final row,. I found that I needed to use an thin embroidery needle instead of a regular tatting needle in order to be able to go through the small seed beads that I used for the finishing row.
The thread I used was size 10. I would like to try it again using size 20 thread to see how it would compare. I think the actual size would be even more similar. The trick would be to work with the beads. Would I need smaller beads? We will see what kinds of challenges it brings.
Have a terrific day.
