Oh, yeah. I did not add the hair yet. Might do that later. I do really like the "teddy bear" ears.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Friday, December 23, 2016
Christmas Troll
I finally got this figured out somewhat. Ruth Perry has published her pattern for a Christmas troll on her weblog (https://tatting.wordpress.com/). Several people on Craftree are making them so I had to try also. The reverse ring is not hard to do at all if you know how to make unflipped stitches. What got me was trying to do two of them with just about 2' of thread for a ball thread. (I recommend at least a yard for ease. And put it on a shuttle. Much easier to handle.) And the pattern appears to call for 2 reverse rings. Well, I tried that and for the life of me cannot figure how to get the second one (the head) as a reverse ring. I used a mock ring instead. Would someone help me out here and tell me how to do it? When I tried, to close the ring left a big loop of thread. Do I just cut that and tie off? I did not try that. I did try wrapping the loop backwards. Didn't help. So how is it done?
Oh, yeah. I did not add the hair yet. Might do that later. I do really like the "teddy bear" ears.
Oh, yeah. I did not add the hair yet. Might do that later. I do really like the "teddy bear" ears.
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Oh he is cute and looks good to me. I make the second half of a split ring ( or reverse ring) by holding my hand with the fingers up ward in stead of side ways like normal. and you stitches start out with over and under going around backwards. My daughter who I was teaching at the time thought it was more comfortable to make a ring this way than the other. try to make a normal ring with one double stitch then hold your hand fingers to ceiling and just do second half of split ring keeping the ring taught is fun. I hope that is good but maybe a video is better than my explanation.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to tell you that when you are done just undo that first normal stitch and then close the ring if you can understand this, have a happy holiday!
ReplyDeleteI have given many details and a table of comparison that may help you solve that reverse ring problem. I faced a similar problem when following some of the tutorials, hence wrote up a few tips here : https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.in/2016/12/a-new-look-or.html . Read through when you have time & ask follow-up questions if required. Always ready to help :-) It is all in the loop that we wrap around our hand - once you get that right, the RR is simple as you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, you don't necessarily have to start with the body ring. One can start with the head.
Carollyn and mushaan have answered your question so all that's left for me to say happy christmas
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Everybody!
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