Pattern, that is. Amazing, isn’t it?
Okay, it’s similar to the Crowned Wheel motif because it’s the edging I was planning to make in the first place.
I’ve added it to the patterns page if you’d like to check it out.
Now, would you like to know what I was planning on doing with these edgings I’ve made recently?
See, I said I was going to use the two together. What do you think? Do they work together?
I just couldn’t get a good picture of this. It really looks much better in person.
I had quite a time trying to put this together. I love the thread color, Lizbeth ‘Springtime’, but what color background do you use with it? I didn’t want to use white but I couldn’t find paper at home that didn’t wash out at least one of the colors. I actually took one of the edgings with me to Walmart and compared it to almost every single style/color of scrapbook paper they have. (I would have taken it to Hobby Lobby or Micheal’s as they have much larger selections but I didn’t want to wait until I had time to go.) And I didn’t find a single paper that I liked enough to purchase. The papers that were in shades that might work were flat, solid colors or had so much going on that it took away from the pattern in the thread. A lot were just in shades that made the thread look bad.
I finally used a page that I had at home that I had overlooked. It is pink but it looks like the color is washed or brushed on. This textured appearance gives the paper a depth that solid colored paper can’t duplicate.
Unlike the cup I decorated for my grandson that I talked about here, I’m not completely happy with how this background paper fits in the cup. The bits and pieces I used on my grandson’s cup worked very well. The edgings used in this cup reach from one end of the background paper to the other, making it thicker than the randomly placed tatting in the other, so it’s harder to fit in the cup and where they meet is not quite as smooth. Something else I did not think about when I decided to put edgings on this cup was that the backing paper is not a rectangle but rectangular with two curving sides. I had to eye-ball the placement of the edgings to smoothly follow the line of those edges. I’m not allowing anyone to get close to this cup with a ruler!
I’m calling this #25 of my second 25 Motif Challenge. I’m now thinking how I’m going to challenge myself for the next round. 🙂
Getting this post out was a challenge. This would have been a Tatting Tea Tuesday post if blogger hadn’t given me fits. I had to add every picture multiple times to get the orientation right. It was quite frustrating! I’m hoping next week will be easier.
“We are cups, constantly and quietly filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury
That's a neat idea! Now your tatting can go anywhere with you!
Beautiful! What a great idea. I actually have a cup like this, I use it to carry my tatting with me (clear and see-thru & it fits in my cup holder in the car).
I love your idea of decorating it with tatting.
Very nice teacup now, Wanda! And what a trubble with the pictures, I know what you mean, there are days… will be perfetly quick next time!
I am glad I am not the only one with problems with the new blogger, I tore my hair out doing a long post and the pictures went anywhere but where I wanted them, one trick I have worked out is instead of putting the pictures you want in reverse order like the old blogger so the last one would end up at the top, now put the top picture first and work downwards and then upload.
I like your cup, it's a lovely patern and beautiful colours, and the pink background shows the tatting off really beautifully.
Margaret
I think they look wonderful together!
That is such a cute idea!
Well worth all the effort you put in! The edgings are beautiful and your cup 'one of a kind'.
After your last post about your grandson's mug, I got my mug out to remind me to do something with it, but it's still just sitting there. Now I feel I MUST do something with it!
Would dark green work in the background? These are excellent designs and diagrammed patterns!
I like the tab at the top of your blog and want to have tabs, but
now I'm REALLY worried about the new Blogger interface! I thought they had the photo thing worked out!
Your cup is lovely and it looks very even and nice. I especially like the pink background for that Springtime color, it's a nice contrast.
OH, WOW, that's awsome!!
Wow…this is beautiful and yes, one of a kind!
What a clever idea, very pretty
Love that cup!! 🙂
I like the glass. Your tatting looks good against the pink background. Very nice.