The great duct tape and tatting challenge

One of the members of the Tatta-Tat-Tatters group on Ravelry was exploring options for attaching tatting to fabric.

Lots of suggestions were made, and at one point, with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek, I suggested that he use duct tape to attach the tatting.

Immediately, that brought up all kinds of crazy ideas and one thing lead to another…. and, well, before you know it, I had issued a challenge.

It’s an odd one….. How can you combine duct tape and tatting in the same piece?

There are no rules, (well, there is one rule: You have to combine tatting and duct tape in the same piece)

and there’s no timeline…. just play with the idea and see what comes up…..

One member of the group mentioned that she envisioned a duct tape corset trimmed with tatting. Ooh lah lah! Fun!

For me, the natural choice was to make a piece of jewelry. I did pages and pages of drawings and sketches.

Eventually, the sketching process lead me to thoughts of making pins that are images of the Little Black Dress.

I was thinking of working in black duct tape, so, you can see how one thing lead to another.

(And the thoughts about  the Little Black Dress triggered my musing on the perfect crocheted LBD, that I wrote about yesterday.)

So, I moved from sketching the LBD, and started snipping:

project and photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

And, then, it was time to get out the duct tape, and start making that perfect, tiny Little Black Dress!

project and photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

Ah, yes, the tatting part of the challenge! I couldn’t find my ‘80′ tatting cotton, so had to settle for ‘50′ weight, which is heavier than I had wanted.  But, still…. it’s fun

Here we go:  The Perfect Little Black Duct Tape Dress Trimmed with Tatting:

project and photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

You are cordially invited to join in on the Duct tape/tatting challenge!

Make something (anything- I just really like making fun jewelry, but I’d love to see some larger pieces!) with duct tape and tatting, in any way, any how, and show  us what you did!