Lost in Translation - Julia E. Sanders errata

Thanks, everyone! I will save perfection for my smaller pieces. On the other hand, this will have quite the story. I just fixed my little backpack that will be my day bag on our trip, copied the pattern, and rolled up some spare thread. I may have to nip into Joanne's for another ball of white. I am nervous about taking it along, but it's been so long with me, I feel like I should take the chance with the adventure. I am only today finishing the fifth broken section, with three more to go. On the plus side, there's a 30 hour plane ride, a 24 hour train, and goodness knows how much other tatting opportunities will come up. But that's the great thing about travel, lots of sitting around and waiting. And of course, there will be pictures. We leave in just under three weeks.

Yay! I will look forward to your adventure stories and your pictures.

That's exactly right - save perfection for your smaller pieces. The sheer scale of this undertaking puts it in a class of its own. It's worth more than a thousand earrings, even if each of them is "perfect".

I think the smaller projects like earrings are great though! It's like sock knitting or crosstitch. I can do an impressive number of crafts, but I don't have a pair of handknit socks. It is such a different talent than what I have, which is making ridiculously large items. LOL! And anyway, we haven't made all of the lace yet!

Earrings are great, yes! Just not to be compared with tablecloths...

I understand what you mean. I've never tatted a tablecloth, but I'm smack in the middle of crocheting my fourth or fifth bedspread with what would be about a size 10 thread. This one is queen size! But there's a lot to said for a nice comfortable pair of socks on the needles. No concentration required (unless you're nuts enough to do argyles on those tiny needles - yes, I have - no, I won't again), so you can watch TV, carry on a conversation in person, on the phone, or Skype, and you can wear them in a couple of weeks instead of a couple of years! Don't discount the small stuff. It can be great in it's own way.

So, I finally finished the row, leaving one row that goes between the corner motifs left to go. This will be a good one for travel, because its an easy, fairly mindless pattern of R 2-2+2-2+2-2, C5-5-5-5-5-5. No remembering to attach every other ring. I'm glad I reached that point so the travel tatting is easy and less prone to mistakes so long as I remember to count my chain picots.

As you can see, it is now at the edges of my table. It won't be long now. The next two border rows, after the last in between, should be fairly quick, then the triangles that go between the cloth insertions, then the en border that connects them all. There's less now to go than I've done.

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Simply amazing. And you 'just' have this and this and that to do!

It looks great! It looks huge! It looks simply amazing!

Fabulous work. You are an inspiration.

Thanks, all! I'll be back to work on it on Wednesday when I have some sitting time, at least, child willing, I will.

Fantastic! Congratulations! You've inspired me to pull mine back out to work on it. I finished up the row before the "caterpillars" and am about to start on those. I had a lot of trouble with them before, so I expect I'll be messing around on them for a while. This particular piece I'm planning on stopping as soon as I've got those caterpillars in. Then I want to start a new one that will go further.

Well, it was a crazy trip, I'll tell you that for free. I'm back from India, having finished 4 of the last broken rows of the border and started on the fifth. I would have done more but our schedule was hectic. Pictures of the Tablecloth, newly re-arranged are on my google+ account here:

http://plus.google.com/photos/112005586259507193982/albums/5920852464282013153

Pictures of the WHOLE India trip from my first plane ride to the payphone in the airport as we waited to go home are here:

http://plus.google.com/photos/112005586259507193982/albums/6018699756179633137

I have yet to unpack. I did have a scissors snafu, though. The guy that did the mindi took my little TSA safe scissors, so our hosts found some new tiny scissors. These, however were not TSA safe and were taken by Indian Security on the way back from the north. I'll buy a new sewing kit when I go to the store later today and I'll have a brand shiny new pair of them should I decide to go flying again, and I'll NEVER loan them again.

I went and looked at all your photos. What a wonderful trip! Makes me want to visit India, too. Thanks for sharing it with us!

Fantastic! The tablecloth looks amazing!

Looks like you had a wonderful trip. Love your henna. I bet it's mostly faded by now, though.

The tablecloth is just stunning. What kind of comments did you get on it while traveling?

Erin, your Extraordinary, Amazing Doily actually visited the Taj Mahal !!! Wow - one labour of love meets another :-))
And loved seeing you in Indian clothes, Indian food on your plate, & intricate henna on your hands. Seems to have been quite a wholesome experience.

Grace, you really should visit someday. Each place/city even within the same state, can be so unique in its colors, culture, character. There is so much history attached as well. Not very neat & clean, but brimming with activity & people. there is everything from all kinds of natural beauty to handmade arts n crafts n delicacies. One trip is never enough to actually understand & imbibe this country ;-))

We may go back in a couple of years so that I can see and touch the Zero. Hubby got to, but my son and I wussed out and stayed in the cafe (really a snack stand with shadey spots to sit) mostly because it was 112ºF, and we had already trekked down once. I would skip Delhi, though, they say it smells of spices, if urine and Mothballs are a spice. I had my complaints, but I'd go back to Gwalior. It really is a pretty town with some beautiful statuary and some great history. First, however, I would like to learn Hindi and really prepare better, pack lighter, and avoid the highways where possible. Plus Aggra is on the same train line, and we were not able to go to the really old marketplace.

Above all, we made a new friend who will be coming in a week to the states and we can't wait!

I would love to visit India, especially with family and friends like you did! I didn't even know about the Zero; perhaps I'll make a pilgrimage to see it...

Wodentoad
What a huge undertaking and you succeeded. Hats off to you. The tablecloth is a work of art. Love the colour scheme.
Sparky

LOL, I did not realize we were residing in a city urinal all these decades ;-))

Sorry, I really should filter my posts better and not post jetlagged and suffering travelers revenge. Much of India was beatiful, and I really look forward to going back for a better look. It was, eh, different from what I know. I did enjoy the wedding we attended, the colors, the fact that even the women walking down the street or doing their washing are doing so in the most beautiful saris, and the people were really nice to us, especially to our son. I had a lot of fun and adventure, I really did, from auto rickshaws to the active temples, and I apologize again for posting when I could barely think straight and was less than charitable towards the lovely country I had just left.

This has to be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Is there anyway you could put all the pattern details down so that I could maybe try to have a go. Thank you

I am working on recording all of the pattern in single document. I have been taking a bit of a break, as the aftermath of the vacation has put lace far from my mind. I have posted what I can, though it's scattered through the thread. I'll see what I have in my document later, and see where I am on it, as I have had to make a few changes to the original design and include a few bits and pieces that were left out of the pattern. I look forward to seeing others work on this pattern!

Donna1866 - I posted the sources in the thread you started.