Thursday, February 3, 2011


I probably should post this, since it came up on the tatting lists. This is Black Beauty. He won "Best of Show" at the Los Angeles County Fair last summer. He is the third horse I have made, the first two being Silver and Mr. Ed. I would post them too except I don't seem to have any pictures of them at the moment. Once I do you would be able to see the evolution between Silver (the first on I made) to Black Beauty (the last and best so far). I need to do 3 more to complete the set.

The base pattern is from Ineke Kuiperij's "Nostalgie" (carousel) book. I just had to embellish it a bit though. When I got the pattern, I couldn't understand why the tail and mane weren't tatted, so I designed my own. After seeing a European carousel, I now understand why. They use horsehair tails on their horses, duh. I also added a flower to the rear as both a decorative element and a stabilizing element. I some redesigning on the head to make it a bit longer. That gave me a bit more room to play with decorative bridals and reigns. And after a bit of creative thinking, I managed to get colored hoofs in there too.

7 comments:

God's Kid said...

That is amazing!!! :)

Gina said...

Fantastic!

Sherry aka Celtic Dream Weaver said...

I love your horse.We use to have a Carosol here where I live about five miles from my house and it was along the lake. It was part of an amusement park...the owners of the park while the people in the city must have been sleeping sold the land for millions and now we have rich people town houses and housing track there. It makes me sick every time I go buy the place which is just about everytime I go into town. This city use to be an resort city...not anymore. The city has taken it all away.
Anyhow....love your horse. I have a couple of her books but not the carosol one.

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Claire said...

Just stunning.

Madtatter80 said...

You did a wonderful job looks really good, If your know how I could get hold of pattern, I would be greatful, even though you added your own touches this sounds interesting to try my email is tennbrown@ then gmail.com all together
thanks from Carollyn

Tim Kaylor said...

Nice Horse. I am on the way to make the entire carousel.