Motif from a Japanese Tatting Book

Was again looking to tat a motif, and spotted this lovely motif in a Japanese title A New Approach to Tatting by Yusai Shokoin. Very sweet, and I added some seed beads for the fun of it. Not that fun adding beads, actually, because I find that if my concentration slipped even just for a bit, I missed putting in the required bead or two! ")

Tatted in Flora #20 Light Blue

Scissor-cise

Remember Pinky?

Well, this was supposed to be the next row (until the very recent past, that is). After happily finishing the whole row, and getting ready to hide the ends, I find something amiss...

Tatted in #20 Flora Violet (yeah, the colour here doesn't look right either!)

So Pinky will have a new row added some time.

Pinky

... is a small doily from a Japanese tatting book. There are only schematic drawings to follow and this is only the first part.

More tomorrow.