Thursday 14 August 2008

More dragons !!

Looks like we are hitting the very slow period of summer when everybody is gone on holiday.... But let's show some picutres anyway.

First we have the very challenging dragon. The pattern is coming from Nuperelle's website, so you can make your own.

Ok, so it already looks complicated, lots of rings and chains, but for me it also meant learning how to make split rings, both with one and 2 shuttles. It's a bit fiddly, I had to try a few times, but there you go !

Then in the evening I made that little snowflake that looks like a flower, and I'm quite glad I managed to make my picots (the little loops all around the motif) the same size.

Some of you will ask.. where is stitching ? Well... it's true I'm a bit out of it. But experience has shown that even if I have a certain time with another craft, I always come back to it. I plan on starting a fairy and making more inchies, biscornus and all once the packing is done. And mostly on holiday next week.

The thing is with all the move preparations, I rarely sit down properly and start stitching. It's a lot easier to take the shuttles for a minute and progress. I get disconnected from the internet tomorrow, and we travel on Saturday, it's going to be an hectic time !!!!

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Il semblerait que nous atteignions la periode tres creuse de l'ete, ou tout le monde est parti. D'ailleurs, comme demain ils deconnectent l'internet, le telephone et la tele, et qu'on voyage vers la France samedi, je vais aussi disparaitre un petit peu.

Mais en attendant, voici un dragon qui m'a donne du fil a retordre, car j'ai du apprendre les "slit rings" avec une et deux navettes. Apres quelques essais, ca a ete. Mais il faut dire que rien qu'a l'aspect, on voit que c'est complexe ;)

Si vous voulez faire le meme, allez sur le site de Nuperelle.

Apres ca, j'ai fait un flocon qui ressemble a une fleur, et le challenge ici etait de faire les picots de la meme taille. Donc j'en suis assez fiere.

Dans tout ca, vous allez me demander "Et la broderie?". Si vous me lisez depuis un bout de temps, vous savez que j'aime essayer beaucoup de techniques, mais je reviens toujours a la broderie... J'ai d'ailleurs un projet de fee, des inchies et des biscornus. Mais pour l'instant, dans ma mise en cartons, j'ai rarement le temps de m'installer comme il faut pour broder, c'est bien plus simpe de prendre mes navettes 5min pour faire quelque chose... Mais bon... plus tard !!!

10 comments :

Anonymous said...

je regardais les picots et c'est vrai que c'est bien joli
Et je te souhaite bon courage dans ton demenagement !
Et j'ai hate de te relire !!!
A bientot !

Annie said...

Hope the dragon acts as a good luck charm for a successful move. Your tatting looks great and it's nice to take a break from stitching now and then.

Valerie said...

Your tatting is amazing! Love the dragon.

Ginny said...

As with your previous "tatted dragon" post, I am emailing this one to my daughter. She said she might actually make the previous one - she's really into dragon literature right now, so this fits right in!

Sandra said...

WOW!!! That is so artistic! Never thought of a tatting dragon, looks fantastic!

stitcherw said...

Love the dragon, you're really getting good at this, very creative.
Sue

Nathdmc said...

Jolie le dragon !!!! Félicitations !!!
Bon voyage même si au moment ou je t'écris, tu n'as plus ni internet, ni télé, ni téléphone !
Big Bizoux, Nath.

Anonymous said...

Waouhhh c'est vraiment joli ce que tu fais !!
Bon déménagement et reviens nous vite !!!
Gros bisous

Anonymous said...

I love your dragon...it looks so majestic. Y0u are really good at tatting. :-)

Zohrah

Kucki68 said...

I love the golden dragon!

Do you know the books by Naomi Novik about Tremaire? Alternate reality Napolean wars with dragons (sorry, the French are the badies).