Saturday, March 29, 2014

New bookmark

The other day hubby was reminded of the bookmark I'd made for him and wondered what had happened to it. That bookmark was made in a 3 strand Opera thread size 20, which is soft enough that it's OK for a regular book, but too thick for the typical onion skin pages of a Bible. So I made him another one is size 80 thread.

I looked through my stash and noticed that most of the colours are pastel and not very masculine. The best I could do was a solid black with a variegated black/white. I had in mind a centre row of 4 ring motifs to form a column of diamonds in a solid colour with an outer row to finish it. The black, black/white combo was too somber, so I went with a centre row in white.

I entertained lots of possibilities for the outer row, but in the end settled on an understated row of black rings and a variegated black/white chain.

I finished it off with a lock chain in the variegated thread with a couple of diamonds and a tassel that used up the unfinished bits of thread on the shuttles.

Hubby seems happy with it and doesn't seem to mind the lack of any eye popping colour. If I'd had a bright robin's egg blue (his favourite colour is blue) I'd have used that in the middle, but the washed out pale blues I have just didn't have enough punch.

Edited to add:
Here's the pattern for anyone interested. I haven't proofread it, but the rings are all 5-5-5-5 and the short chains are 3-3-3-3, the long ones are 3-3-3-3-3-3. Let me know if you find any errors and I'll fix it.


9 comments:

Susie said...

Pretty. Would you mind sharing your stitch counts? Thanks!

God's Kid said...

What a wonderful wife to make something tatted for her husband!!! :) Very nice bookmark!! :)

Susie said...

Thank you! Your patterns always are so professional!

Margarets designer cards said...

Lovely pattern, hope he enjoys his bookmark, it's nice to tat something fir our long suffering tatting husbands
Margaret

Tally Tatty said...

This is a nice,serene bookmark in calm colors. Good for meditating and pretty to look at.I believe your husband is happy with this !

Ladytats said...

That is a very nice bookmark, simple yet elegant. Thank you for the pattern.

GraceT said...

That's a really nice, elegant bookmark. Looks great in those colours, too. Thanks for your pattern!

Anonymous said...

Very nice! Thank you for the pattern.

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