Tatted Floral SCMR Bookmark

What do you do when you are not feeling well? Ya know, under the weather, ill in the gills, or however you express your feeling unwell. I tend to tat. I won't get into the details of my not feeling well, but it kept me from working.

:(

I really like my new job, too. It's something I can do while I'm not feeling well, however, today was just too much for me.

Anyway, in an effort to comfort myself from the stresses of life I tatted.

I've been wanting to make this

floral bookmark for sometime.

So I tatted it up today while

feeling icky.

Oh, hey! I can count this toward

my 25 Motif Challenge, I guess all is not lost

on this day!

Motif #12 Floral SCMR Bookmark

click on photo to enlarge.

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It was designed by Jane Eborall;

a delightful tatting designer from Great Britain.

It's called Flowery SCMR Bookmark.

Kind of a technical name for such a lovely

pattern, aye?

It's the perfect pattern for

practising intermediate-advanced

tatting techniques such as

SCMR (Self Closing Mock Ring) and

SR (Split Ring) and

"rings on rings".

I tatted it up in these

Manuela threads.

More of the B-day stash...hee hee.

I had a bit of a
serendipitous experience
with them because I thought they were both size 20.
They were not.
The green was size 10.
Oopsy!
I have to say, sometimes
I purposely tat a project with 2
different sizes of thread
to give a certain lovely
textured element to a design.
For instance if I want one part
of the design to stand out more I'll
use the thicker thread (smaller numbered).
Or if I want one part to look especially delicate
I'll use the thinner (larger numbered) thread.
In this case it worked out okay.

If you do not tat and have been gracious enough

to read this far you may be thinking,

"what in the H___ is that TattingChic

talking about, SCMR and SR and

rings on rings? What is all that!?!"

Well, I'd love to give you a little

tatting tour if you'd like.

Ready?

Come with me

and I will show you.

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The basic parts of a

tatting design are

rings

&

chains.

What are rings and chains, you ask?

Well, I'm about to show you.

:)

These, my friends

are your average,

garden variety

tatted rings.

Called "R" on a tatting pattern.

See the little bumps or ridges?

Those are "double-stitches".

This is a regular old, average

tatted chain.

Called "CH" on a tatting pattern.

See the little double-stitches?

They're also called "double knots" by some folks.

See, you're becoming an expert on tatting already!!!

Okay, now for the more advanced stuff.

Come back to me,

don't run off.

This will be painless.

I promise.

See how the rings above are all one color?

See the rings below?

They are of 2 colors.

Those are SR or "split rings".

Not all split rings are in 2 colors.

These are a good visual example.

See how they are rings, but "split"

by two different threads.

That was good, you did so well learning that!

Now this photo shows a

SCMR

or

"self closing mock ring"

It's a rather long name

for a chain that got tricked

into thinking it was

a ring.

In the picture below it's the big ring in the

center of the photo with

the three rings coming off

the top of it.

Very Good!

Now, one more thing!

What are those

"rings on rings"

that I mentioned?

Why, they're just the rings sitting

on top of that SCMR I just showed you!

That's all!

See how easy that was?

You were amazing!!!

Oh, I just loved teaching you all that.

This concludes our lesson....

...er.... I mean my blog post for the day.

Thanks for visiting my little corner of bloggerland! I always enjoy your comments. They mean so much!

Now, I'm hoping to get rid of this migraine. Thank you, I think this has been a good start! I am starting to feel better already.

See, blogging is like medicine...LOL!

Happy day and (((hugs)))!

TattingChic.

Edited 9/14/08: rec'd an email from someone today that the site Bookmark Collector featured this post on it's site under the heading "Make Your Own Bookmark". Thank you Bookmark Collector!