Comments | delirium71: tiny tartan

delirium71

tiny tartan

Apr 26, 2009 22:57

I made this as a sample a while back. I've got a proper one to do in tartan and I wanted to practise. It worked out pretty well. A few things I'll change on the proper one like matching the binding up with the check.
This is tiny though! It was made to a pattern for another customer (whose mock-up I'm still waiting on being returned) it's only 18" ( Read more... )

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abitofanenigma April 27 2009, 00:26:21 UTC

Byooteeful!!! It's lovely!

delirium71 April 27 2009, 18:36:25 UTC

Thank you :)

abitofanenigma April 28 2009, 11:06:20 UTC

By the way, I am so so sorry to hijack your thread but you wouldn't be interested in my old singer 28k treadle...or know of anyone else in Glasgow that might be? I'm not sure I have space for it in my new flat!

virginiadear April 28 2009, 11:52:56 UTC

oh...and here I am on the wrong side of the pond!
Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed that your old Singer finds a good home *if* you don't have room for it in your new flat---but I really do hope you can keep it!

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delirium71 April 27 2009, 18:39:10 UTC

Thanks :) You can't go far wrong with Black Watch.

Wait 'til you see the tartan I've got for the ordered one. We think it's a variation of Culloden tartan. Purples and greyish taupe. Very subtle.
It's for a redhead, so it should suit her well.

sparklewren April 27 2009, 08:04:03 UTC

Super-tiny! I love it :-)

delirium71 April 27 2009, 18:40:13 UTC

It's miniscule. I'd need one for each leg!!!

withered_roses_ April 27 2009, 10:29:23 UTC

I LOVE it, you matched the pattern so well!

delirium71 April 27 2009, 18:44:29 UTC

Thank you :)

The external bones were me cheating the pattern matching a bit :) I like it being on the diagonal at the front though.

virginiadear April 27 2009, 11:13:31 UTC

Gosh, but that is fab!
Is it silk? And are the casings for the boning, silk?

The bones or steels appear to have a high profile: what are you using? I'm so intrigued---! :-)

delirium71 April 27 2009, 18:43:24 UTC

Thanks :)
It's a wool/poly blend. Cheap stuff as it was really a practice for getting the checks to sit right.
The bone casings are navy silk dupion. Mainly as it gives a nice contrast - not because it makes it less of a nightmare to pattern match the seams- no, not that reason, of course not ;)
Just silk over coutil tubes over spiral bones.

virginiadear April 27 2009, 19:13:13 UTC

Mmm. Lovin' it!