{"id":491,"date":"2011-05-12T10:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2011-05-21T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T18:44:24","slug":"picking-a-pattern-for-a-new-belt-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Picking a Pattern for a New Belt Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Michael’s had ribbon on sale last week and I couldn’t resist picking up a few new colors to try out with some new tatted belts.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a particular pattern in Priscilla Book #2 that’s been bothering me lately.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t decide if I like it or not, but I think it might make a nice belt.\u00c2\u00a0 And if it turns out I still don’t like it?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, at least I’ll be tatting it in size 3 thread so it should go quickly.<\/p>\n

For the last belt I made I used a ring and chain pattern that had to be doubled over to give it vertical symmetry and make it the right width for the belt. This meant tatting one side of the belt and then flipping it over and tatting the other side. It’s been my normal way of turning edgings into bracelets or necklaces or anything I want to be thicker, but I’ve been wanting to find a pattern I like that can be done in one pass and still result in a fairly wide piece of fabric.\u00c2\u00a0 Haven’t found one I really like yet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This pattern has been catching my eye because it’s done in one pass and it looks like it ends up being fairly wide.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m just not sure I like it.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s hard to follow and feels a bit chaotic.\u00c2\u00a0 I tatted up a small piece of it just to get a feel for the pattern and still wasn’t totally sure about it.\u00c2\u00a0 (Wish I could have tatted a longer piece, but I ran out of shuttle thread.\u00c2\u00a0 Size 3 goes pretty quickly.)\u00c2\u00a0 I think tatting it in two different colors will help to give it a little more definition.\u00c2\u00a0 The rings in the pattern come in pairs and the chains should form something of a wave of color bending around the pairs of rings.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m going to try it out in two colors, and I’ll write up the pattern for it when I do.<\/p>\n

Though my main attraction to this pattern is that it’s done with only one pass, it’s not totally symmetric and I’m starting to wonder what it would look like doubled over.\u00c2\u00a0 Though a single pass should be wide enough for a belt doubled over might looking interesting as a super-wide belt (or normal sized with size 10 thread).\u00c2\u00a0 I may end up trying that as well.\u00c2\u00a0 I will say that I really like using the size 3 thread for belts because I think then they’re actually big enough that you can see the design from farther away.\u00c2\u00a0 Belts are not really meant to be looked at up close.\u00c2\u00a0 At least, I’d rather not have people bend down and take a look at my waist from 6 inches away, but hey, maybe that’s YOUR thing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael’s had ribbon on sale last week and I couldn’t resist picking up a few new colors to try out with some new tatted belts.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a particular pattern in Priscilla Book #2 that’s been bothering me lately.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t decide if I like it or not, but I think it might make a nice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belts","category-priscilla-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snapdragonlace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}