Maybe not ten days...

I have now officially made yardage of tatted edging. The piece for the neck of my chemise was about a yard and a quarter. I really should stop posting about when I think I'll finish things because I often seem go to on a tear and knock it all out shortly after I do. So now the chemise is much prettier with its edging of very simple tatting at the neck and sleeves.



I had felt fairly confident about the edging being period just because it is about as simple as it gets for tatting, but I was still excited when I saw the pattern in a book published in 1895 called Tatting and Netting. The picture in figure 8 is what I made. It also amuses me that the method I was taught is the same method described in the book as a "modern method."