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| Horsing Around with Ineke Kuiperij's Paard |
Earlier this fall, I saw a Yahoo tatting group post from Riet over at Bengelblog called "Horsing Around with Ineke's Paard." The linked PDF file credited Bobbie Demmer with showing a horse to Katharine Buckner, Pam Freck and Riet at the end of 2011 Tat Days.
The clever trio of tatting sleuths discovered the pattern was taken from the "Knight" piece in Ineke Kuiperij's Chess Set book.
And what a cute, cute, cute horse it is! I immediately added it to my "must tat" list.
Motif 19 - Horse on a Paperclip
Here is my first attempt, tatted with Lizbeth® 40 Spice Cake #182. For the eye I used a black bead from my stash. My best guess for its size is either 4mm or size 6/0.
Two shuttles wound CTM are used for this and (don't hate me) but I did not pay attention to where I started in the color progression. I just picked up and started tatting. Normally I would have chosen the starting point, but I was thinking, 'It is only a test tat.'
Not only was it a very successful test tat, it was pure pleasure to tat and was completed in about an hour. Pardon the pun, this spurs me on to create a few more horses on paperclips.
Thank you Riet, Katharine and Pam, as well as Bobbie Demmer for sharing such a fun project!
