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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Ring on ring exercice turned into a bracelet

Since quite some time I want to learn the Ankars technique. I felt that there is more than tatting and sewing in it, but I had the confirmation while I was attending the on-line Ankars class with Nina Libin (Big, big THANK YOU to Georgia Seitz).
The material is a bit different, it has to allow to work tighter stiches and very, but very large rings. From the beggining on, my coton perlé was not the best choice for it. You can see easily why, in the picture bellow.
The first class was about the ROR (Ring on ring) technique. The simple ones, we know them from the layered rings. I found a very good example here.
The complex variant of the ROR is not that difficult, in my eyes. The first picot on the larger ring is used to join the first layered ring, and the second picot serves to join the third ring (through the second ring!). And, voilà!

I had to practice. My first problem were the large rings, the 49 - 7- 7- 14 ring was a true killer, because I tat anyway tight, but doing it tighter, as Nina Libin told us, made the job very difficult for me. After the class I grabed the shuttle with my Lavsan thread and did the exercice. Did not work at first. Small breack, a short, angry look at the shuttle: IT HAS to work! So I wrapped a larger amount of thread and started a ring. Yes, the 49 ds one... Because I did not have to pull the thread to enlarge the loop so often, my stiches got more even, the thread did not have any unwanted twist and I was able to close a nice, huuuge ring:

I used then this for a bracelet, done with silk thread: 

The first part of the element is done. The second one is mirrored.

Reverse work
Ring 10 ds - 7ds- 15ds- 15ds -15ds close reverse work
Ring 17ds join to large ring 17ds close
Ring 10 dn join to large ring 10ds close

You should make sure that the smaller rings stay below the bigger one. I tried the other way around, it is possible, but working them under the bigger ring is easier for me.

I left a larger amount of thread to sew the pearl.
The bracelet has six elements like this.

It is not spectacular, but I'm happy about the result.I was suggested that a nice pair of earrings and a necklace will do a nice set.



15 comments:

  1. It IS spectacular. Very elegant! Thank you for the tutorial.

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  2. Thank you, Pati, for your kind words and for having taken the time to write me something. Hope the tutorial helps. If you have some questions about it or if there is something wrong, please, let me know.

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  3. Multumesc pentru tutorial !Felicitari este foarte frumoasa bratara ca de altfel tot ce lucrezi!

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    1. Multumesc, Lotus. Adun acum informatie pentru forum... Ia timp pentru ca trebuie sa scriu totul in romana. Macar pentru partea de inceput, ca dupa aceea se dezvolta de la sine.

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  4. Es muy linda esta pulsera, el color es muy lucido. Es sencilla pero muy elegante.
    Muchas gracias por compartir.

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    1. Fue un placer hacerlo, Concha. El hilo de seda o de rayón se ve mejor con la bisutería de encaje.

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  5. Multumesc, Corina pentru tutorial ! :)

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  6. Grand merci Corina, tu es super :)
    bisou bisou

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  8. Oh, the experience I grabbed here was totally like the magical spell. It was really a thrilling read that how the rings turned into the bracelet. So much excited to learn about the Ankars Technique. Though i wanted to dive into some contents related to bishop ring, I was extremely inspired with the details you expanded here. Of course I would like to leave my warm thanks to you for this unique piece of presentation.

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