Jan Stawasz Doily 1 WIP

This is a very easy doily. Made in size 10 lizbeth white thread. The stitch definition is great, but the thread is not good for hiding ends. Quick tatted rounds!

This is an earlier picture of the doily. I will post the final in another post.

For this doily, I have taken to using the nail polish trick: knotting the ends and putting nail polish on the knot so it doesnt come unraveled. With a 3 ply thread, I would try weaving the ends, but Lizbeth thread is just so rigid.

I messed up so I had to un-tat an entire motif repeat. But since the thread is so smooth, it wasnt too bad to reopen all the rings. I just put on some podcasts to do it.

Unfortunately, the doily is just named 'Doily' in the book. I cant even give it a name. Maybe Jan Stawasz's 6 petal center doily? He reused motifs and patterns a lot so I don't even know! Maybe someone else knows what the official name for this pattern is.

I'm going to have to block and maybe iron this doily. At least I don't have to pull out the picots like I do with other threads. When a pattern has a ton of picots and it's a soft thread,  it's great to tat with but awful to block.

Anyway,  I've already used up one ball of Lizbeth thread. I'm using half a ball more. I may weigh the doily to see how much thread I used in making this. 

Farewell for know,

-JT