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:

Green and blue multipatterned shawl

01001 New shawl in shades of green and blue.

 

Multi-colored, multi-patterned shawl

This one uses several of Sarah's Engineered Crochet shell stitches, all with two dc's and three ch. I started with antique rose using 01010, then switched to orchid (lavender) 01100; then to light country blue with the amazingly nice 10001, which makes sturdy diamonds. I got tired of doing it, though, so switched to 10100 most of the way through the blue. The green will be partly 10100 and then 01001. Because they all use two dc's and three ch's, the density of the sections is the same, though the laciness varies.

Done!

01001, 10100, 10001 (top to bottom)

Closeup of lavender and blue

Backlit antique rose 01010 and lavender 01100

Closeup of antique rose and lavender

Large scale antique rose and lavender