I cannot believe that it has been nearly four months since I last posted. I haven't been lazy ... I've started working on Ineke Kuiperij's Trainset and Station. I've completed the tatting for the station and the locomotive but haven't stiffened the pieces yet so that I can put the roofs onto the station and put the locomotive pieces together.
The station is was done in six stages (not counting the frames for the windows and door and the door itself). Ineke's designs are really nice to work up. Using a translator in conjunction with her wonderful diagrams, it was pretty easy to follow.
The locomotive steam boiler I tatted in a single, 3-D piece by starting at the concave portion on the front and then completed the boiler by using split rings. I have the coal tender about 75% completed and will be very glad not to have black, size 80 thread all the time.
I wouldn't same the this is my very best tatting, from a technical standpoint, but I am having fun with the project. I'll get some pictures shortly (need to charge the batteries for the camera) and post. I think I'll do a before and after for the locomotive pieces.
For those of you in the northern tier of the US and the UK and northern Europe, I hope you stay warm and well. The weather has been very cold and snowy, more so than usual (although with weather how do we really know what is normal?). For those in the Southern Hemisphere, I hope your summer is pleasant and not terribly hot.
6 comments:
I'd love to see pictures of your train when you are done! My little girl loves trains, maybe I'll have to make her one.
Can't wait to see the photos. Happy tats, lass.
Me too! I am waiting to see your photos.
Can't wait for your pictures. I'm sure they will be really great! At present I am finishing up on Ineke's Christmas Nativity. Have 4sets tatted and am working on the stiffening part.
She does have very different and interesting patterns.
Marie, out of curosity, what are you using for the heads of the various figures in the Nativity?
I can't find the wooden heads that I used to use years ago for my many projects. Guess they stopped making them. I am using 16MM white pearl beads and they seem to work fine. Does anyone have any other suggestons?
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