Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Now What???

Suggestions anyone?  I was just finishing up the Maria bookmark from Lene Bjorn's Bookmarks - Cross-Shaped...had cut the threads and was sewing the second end in when this happened...


That short thread is the core thread in those 155 half stitches of course...and, yeah, I did use some "vintage" clarks size 30 thread that is "aged" looking...but I really liked the "antique" look it gave...it matches the book I want to use it in very nicely.  So...How would you go about fixing it? 
  1. I could pull a bunch of the half stitches off to get a longer thread, maybe all the way down to the join, tie a new thread on and re-tat those 155 half stitches. 
  2. I could pull out down to the join and sew in there just leaving a single tail.
  3. I could try to tie on where it is and make a new ring, hiding the short end as I tat the first few stitches of the ring.  I think it would be a touch shorter than the other tail though.
  4. Other ideas I haven't thought of...
What would you do?  Definitely a "now what?" moment...and I am curious as to what other tatter's solutions might be...

Julie

6 comments:

  1. well, that would depend on how I intended to use it.
    If I didn't really need the 2 tails~the cross would be inside between the pages and the tail would show me where~ I would not worry about it and take it out back to the single tail.

    If I intended to use the cross in a prayer book or bible and wanted to mark multiple pages I would want the 2nd tail, and maybe 3 or 4 and longer so the cross would be outside the book or just inside the cover and the tails would mark the pages and hang out the bottom.

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  2. I vote for one tail. Simple, elegant and not so much work.

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  3. Add a charm that works with the theme of the cross.

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  4. Such a shame! The tails are not essential to the design are they? Undo them? Or your option 3.

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  5. I feel your pain here. I would probably do #1 or #3. But really it's beautiful so however you end it is going to be perfect.

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  6. Thank you all for your comments...I truely appreciate them and they did help me to decide what to do with that tail! Thank You!!!

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