Renulek's Spring Doily.

I haven't been tatting almost anything in the last months, but designing, coding, studying, then realized that it seems that these days every tatter in the tatting groups I belong to, are talking about or tatting Renulek's Doily.

My tatting friend also tatted it. I had to asked myself what that doily had to be so special.

Well, It's an impressive doily indeed. So, if I would like tatting it, what would I need? Pictures don't show the real size of the doily

Nellie Youngburg's motif 37 in TatHelper

Nellie Youngburg wrote a wonderful book of tatting with many tatted motifs, but she did something else, she combined those motifs to create different works.

The edgings 3 and 14 were reused to create a Camisole York.

The camisole is made with 18 motifs, each one with 8 onion rings.

My perfect Onion Ring

This is not about computer's application for tatting lace. It's a development about tatting onion rings.

Onion Ring is a complex shape made of one ring surrounded by a bigger ring, using one thread for both rings. In the old books I've read, onion rings didn't join outer ring to a inner ring's picot. Perhaps this has been a modern modification trying to keep the rings in the intended position.
 
Well, onion rings have been a headache. I'd never tatted a nice, flat, well looking onion ring.

When Georgia asked us to make samples from Nellie Youngburg's book I chose to tat pattern #37 and didn't realized it had many, many onion rings!!!

After some tries I finally developed a method to make the perfect onion ring for me.