Dark with light stripes between

This one's going to have about 8 or 9 inch stripes in dark colors separated by 2-inch stripes of variegated neon colors. So far I have purple, bright stripe, dark country blue, bright stripe, dark sage green, bright stripe, chocolate brown. Coming up: deep red, mulberry, purple, dark blue. All done in 01010 shell stitch by Sarah of Engineered Crochet.

This is supposed to be rotated left but I can't make it do it.

Light blue shawl

There was a lot of light blue yarn left over from the "Three Blues" shawl, so I thought of doing one entirely in one color for a change. To keep the boredom factor down, it's in stripes of different patterns. Finished: Feb. 13, 2019. Scroll down to see the shawl lengthwise displaying the different stitches, then a closeup of some of the stitches. The top picture is close to the real color of the yarn.
01010 10010 01010 10001 01010 01100 01010 ...
There are stripes of 01010 in between the fancier stitches to fill it out. Sarah of Engineered Crochet, who came up with these stitches, says that 01010 is mindless and goes fast, and it does; the pattern is not particularly interesting, though.

01001 and 10010 look different, surprisingly. 01100 and 00110 are probably pretty much the same.

The 10001 stripe is slightly narrower (side-to-side) than the rest, causing the shawl to have a very slight inward curve to the edge at that point.

Stitches about 1 1/2 life size. 10010 at top, 10001 in middle, 01010 at bottom.

The previous shawl before the blue one

I didn't get this one into the blog when it was made, but here it is now. This one was done in 10010, which I won't do again - required too much concentration. I used up some old skeins on this one. Caron Simply Soft in a variety of colors. The narrow maroon stripe is a different but comparable yarn.

Three blues shawl

Done in three colors of blue. I'd like to try four colors or five if I could find them, to get a more nuanced appearance.

This one uses Caron Simply Soft in Dark Country Blue, Berry, and Light Blue (or Soft Blue, can't remember). It is made with Sarah's "Engineered Crochet" (q.G.) 01010 stitch. Pleasantly warm.

I would like to try one with narrower stripes in Dark County Blue, Medium Country Blue, Light Country Blue, and a lighter blue.
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Update on tatting

No. 80 thread at last - "tatting cotton" by DMC. Ecru.

Honi soit qui mal y pense

I found this printed-for-embroidery linen bridge cloth in my grandmother's stuff when we were tending to her estate in 1977. I embroidered it while we were there in Tennessee, then lost track of it. I thought (and regretted) that it was gone forever to some dump. But it turned up when Clint cleaned out some drawers in the garage.

There are hollyhocks in three corners. The bee covers a stain on the material.

 I also embroidered a butterfly and something that looks like a pupa, but has antennae, to hide a larger stain.

The main motif is two Victorian ladies having tea. I chose the colors. Hence the title of the post.

Tatting

This is what it looks like when you start to learn:

You get a little better and produce things like this in #10 thread:

Still more improvement:

and yet more work, this time learning a fine thread, probably a size 40:

 and finally, you get where you can do THIS:

and THIS:

Close-up: