(Update! Thank you Marty! The snowflake is from Mike and the pattern is HERE!)
Anyway, I tatted two motifs last night. One is from a vintage publication and I'll rewrite the pattern and offer that at some point later. The swirly snowflake was from a printout I had, and I'm pretty sure the designer is a guy
That said, I really like the Caribbean in the swirly snowflake pattern, but not the vintage snowflake pattern. See how the colors work out in the swirly but are disjointed in the vintage one? I had tons of thread on the shuttle after the swirly so that's why I tatted the vintage one. I'll do it again in white or a solid since it's for a project. The colorway repeat was good for one design but not another and this is the pitfall with colorful threads.
The other thing I wanted to demonstrate here was how the motif looks on different backgrounds. I actually have them on white too, but in my editing, I accidently saved one motif and lost the other so I didn't include it in the collage. I have lots of small cardstock that I use for background scans, especially for white pieces that don't show up. I put the motif on several shades of blue but it fades away into the darker blue so I didn't even scan that one. The gray is actually a gray-blue. The green and peach made the motif stand out better, but sometimes odd colors pull out shades you really don't want to see.
I actually like the swirly on the sky blue background. The vintage motif didn't look good on any of them but it's because of the imbalance of color distribution in the motif, not the background so much.
And that's my experiment of the day!
The Swirly Snowflake is Mike's (MSquared) from his blog "I learned Tatting as pain management, Now I need Therapy." You can find the original pattern here:
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It's a very pretty pattern, and I really like how it looks in the Caribbean!
Interesting experiment with the backgrounds - I'll now have to play too!!!!
ReplyDeleteI like the motifs very much but not the thread - don't like the lengths of the colours. I have a whole ball of it and have not experimented much. Good for you!
ReplyDeleteThe spiky one reminds me of a jester's hat and actually the colour breaks really work here!
Fox : )
I love that colorway! I'm one who doesn't mind randomness in the way colors show up, so I like the vintage one. But I like the swirly one even more-- like Fox, I immediately saw a jester's hat in it.
ReplyDeleteBackground color does make a huge difference. I have a pad of construction papers that I bought to use as different colored backgrounds in my scans and photos. Sometimes I get lazy and just use black or white without trying anything else, but sometimes I really play around with different backgrounds before I do the scan; those usually come out the best.