This snowflake enchants me, in spite of its obvious tension issues. I loved tatting it (with no fewer than 8 split rings per ‘arm’ , it was right up my alley), and I find the motif that joins the arms to be quintessentially ‘snowflake’. I will make it again to get the central motif right.
Points - from part I of Tatted Flurries by Sharon Briggs
While uploading this picture, I could not resist adding one of my first attempt at Polly:
My sincere apologies for the file size to those of you with slow internet connections. It has been long enough that I have forgotten how to streamline the photos for upload to WordPress (one of the reasons I have been generating my most recent posts from Flickr). I didn’t want to put road kill flakes on Flickr: only a fellow tatter would understand that they are still beautiful, albeit flawed.
After this, I have just one more snowflake to show you from Part I of Tatted Flurries. There is a 3-D one in progress, but it will not be ready for a couple of days.
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December 22, 2011 at 3:38 pm
stella Lange
there is an amazing 3d effect of this flake ….. I love how the ring appears to sit forward of the centre.
December 22, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Suzanne
It doesn’t just ‘appear’ to sit forward! There lies the crux of my tension issue with this snowflake. The centre, which is supposed to lie flat, forms a bezel of sorts. Just haven’t decided what to insert in it to turn the mistake into an ‘accidentally on purpose’.