I love the thread Anika!
It's such pretty colors...
She was going for Red, White, and Blue...I think she got it...
With a beachy vibe! The blue is the exact shade of some beach glass I have...Gorgeous!!!
It was hard to decide what to do with this beautiful thread...and I mulled it over for quite a while before deciding on this pattern...
This is Mary Konior's Spinning Wheel Glass Mat done in size 20 HDT created by Anika...
This is absolutely my favorite piece of tatting I have completed to date...beautiful thread and an incredible pattern. I now know why this is a favorite of Konior's to tat...the pattern is very fun to work and just gorgeous! This will be #10 in my 25 motif challenge.
I still have a full shuttle's worth of this thread left...what to do with the rest...hmmm....more decisions to be made! Oh...and I might have fallen in love with HDT and might have ordered some more from Lady Shuttlemaker...she had a Red, White, and Blue called Americana (for my stars) and another color that was based on rose petals that I maybe couldn't resist...
I absolutely love this, excellent choice for this colorway :)
ReplyDeleteAnika's thread is beautiful, and the Spinning Wheel is fantastic! Did you know that's my favorite pattern? I've lost count of how many I've made. I think it's the perfect pattern for multi-colored and variegated threads. I absolutely love it in red, white, and blue!
ReplyDelete@ Diane ~ I remembered you had mentioned this as a "beloved" pattern. I can see why! It's interesting to tat, beautiful, and yet a very relaxing pattern. It went very smoothly for me, I was worried about a number of things...was there enough thread (ample...but I was worried), how those last joins were going to work (not too hard at all), etc. I had very little retro tatting to do, maybe three rings...joined wrong a couple of times due to lack of attention and forgot the third picot once and had to open those back up and fix the errors. Really a smooth tat, nice to have something that goes well and is relaxing to tat...I imagine I'll be making this again many times:-) It feels like it will be right up there with the Stumpy bookmark and Konior Mark My Words cross that I love to tat...
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