Trying Another Tatting Pin - Butterfly

I had so much fun with my last pattern off of Pinterest - that I decided to do another.  This pattern comes from an Italian blog - so I have no idea what the blog post says.  Luckily for me, the tatting pattern was a diagram.  It is the forth image down on this blog post: http://puntoypunto.myblog.it/archive/2012/04/25/schemi-a-chiacchierino.html

 

I was curious as to how long a tatted piece of this size (it's roughly two inches wide by an inch and a half tall) would takes me.  This pattern was new to me and it took about 2.5 hours (this included having the thread break halfway through round one which meant starting over, having to pull out a hand full of stitches when I missed a join, and tucking tails).  Probably not fast by an experienced tatter's standards, but I felt like I had a pretty good pace.  The butterfly turned out cute.  I think I may consider tatting the antennae around wires next time to prevent the drooping caused by the beads.  This is a pattern I will do again.

Accidental Hearts

 

      I was attempting the pattern for “Priscilla Yoke Ear Rings” provided by Elain Gan on her blog: http://tattingpatterns.blogspot.com (which I was linked to via a pin on Pinterest) when I was distracted by conversation and accidentally connected a ring into the wrong location.  Since I didn’t realize my mistake until I was ready to connect the next ring, I decided to keep it and mirror it on the other side.  The result was a heart shape I like quite a bit.  The pattern for the original medallion can be found in Priscilla Yoke Book by Georgette Batt (for a pdf copy visit: http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org ) on pages 32 and 33.

Ring 1: 7 – 3 – 4
Ring 2: 4 + 6 – 6 – 4
Ring 3: 4 + 3 – 7

Chain: 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 (5 picots)
Ring: 6 + (to 1st picot of Ring 1) 6
Chain: 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 (5 picots)
Ring: 6 + (to 1st picot of Ring 1 - same as the last join) 6
Chain: 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 (5 picots)
Ring: 6 + (to joined picot of Ring 1 & 2) 6
Chain: 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 (5 picots)
Ring: 6 + (to middle picot of Ring 2) 6
Chain: 3 – 2 – 3

Shoelace trick
Ring: 3 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 3 (5 picots)
Shoelace trick

Chain 3 – 2 – 3
Ring 6 + (to middle picot of Ring 2) 6
Chain 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 (5 picots)
Ring 6 + (to joined picot of Ring 2 & 3) 6
Chain 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 (5 picots)
Ring 6 + (to 2nd picot of Ring 3 ) 6
Chain 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 (5 picots)
Ring 6 + (to 2nd picot of Ring 3 - same as the last join) 6
Chain 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 2 (5 picots)