A Recent Completion

[atherleisure]

After posting a bunch of projects that I finished months ago, here's one that I finished on Monday.



It's a tatted cravat made from a pattern published in Harper's Bazar in 1867 and reprinted in Reconstruction Era Fashions. One nice thing about the pattern is that it called for #60 tatting cotton, and the definitions of thread weights haven't changed so I can be reasonably sure that it came out close to the way it would have come out in 1867. The ribbon would be silk instead of synthetic, but I haven't the foggiest idea where you'd find silk velvet ribbon these days.

Comments

[hharris]

that is sooo pretty!

[atherleisure]

Thank you.

[mala_14]

So pretty! What a lovely accessory!

[atherleisure]

Thank you.

[totchipanda]

So stinkin' cute!!

[atherleisure]

Thank you.

[danabren]

Wowie wow!

[atherleisure]

Thank you.

[marianme]

Sweet! I had to zoom in closer to see how the ribbon lacing worked. Very clever use of Os.

[atherleisure]

Thank you. All credit for cleverness goes to the pattern designers.