Tuesday Tats

It's Tuesday! So you know that means I've been tatting. Ah, but what?

I've been adding more tatting to my white CQ piece:

 Josephine Knot cascades

bullion stitch, which is somewhat like a wrap stitch formed on the needle, gently pulled through, and then stitched into the fabric. Sorry it's blurry. Looks rather like green worms, to me.

                                              what's this?   a tongue? 

 It looks like a cluny....sort of....a cluny attached to the fabric. Now, don't go thinking I've finally mastered the cluny. I'm afraid it isn't so.

One of my embroidery books describes it as a woven picot stitch, but it's also called stumpwork.

It's woven like a cluny, too. The only difference I can see is that a tatting cluny is free-formed, while the stumpwork is attached to fabric at the base.
I can't do clunies very well, but, hey, I like this woven picot stitch!

I twisted the 'cluny' and tacked it down on a seam, then added a small bead. Then I added more JK cascades, 'Josephine chains', plus a few smaller bullion stitches in the varigated thread.

I tatted the motif, then created 3 different sized cluny-stumpwork  'stems' in the centre, twisted, turned, and tacked them to create what looks, to me, like a lotus flower. I then added a white 'pearl' in its centre.

There are more seams to embellish, so I think I'll be doing some more tatting.

Hope you have a wonderful day.

Thanks for visiting.

Hugs from Suz