The ChocoRaspberry Family!

BEWARE!!! Very long post! You have been waiting for this...haven't you!!

ChocoRaspberry turned out to be a big hit....with me and with you! Thanks for all your kind comments. If you haven't already had your mouth water..then look here at my original post.

I just couldn't get enough of it and it was singing DOILEY to me. Then it occurred to me that I could select certain parts of ChocoRaspberry and that would make it much more interesting....and so The ChocoRaspberry Family was born.

Working from dark to light the first one to be dyed separately was Chocolate Sauce the topping for my delicious dessert. It did think of making a variegated chocolate thread but decided against it as my Chocolate sauce needed to be smooth so I just let the natural variation found in a hand dyed thread give it interest. I am sure most of you will already have a brown thread in you stash...just maybe not as yummy as this one.



Next to come was Raspberry and Chocolate Mousse...that's the bit under the Chocolate sauce and on top of the raspberries with a like bit of refining to make it more yummy.


So the first thing I did was to tat with them. Susan Fuller's Hearts Desire of course.
I will do my best to show these colours as they really are...not easy.



Here it is again but with Chocolate sauce for the chains.



Here they both are together with ChocoRaspberry.



The next bit to dye was Raspberry Sorbet..... I had already dyed this colour combo a year ago and loved it and no had to try to repeat it.....well several trials and hearts later I got it to my satisfaction.

Since it is a sorbet with no cream in it I wanted the raspberry colour to be more intense...and have a wider range from deep to pale. Again you probably have similar threads in your stash.







I tatted Raspberry Sorbet with Chocolate sauce chains and I got......Turkish Delight...I love this combo.





The final bit of the jigsaw that I wanted was something very pale...a Raspberry Ripple Ice Cream. This took even more trials getting paler and paler and paler and still having enough contrast.
I found that a 10 to 11 yard sample would give me a heart and maybe a butterfly.

Sorry if I am boring you...this is just the way my mind works.



These are all very pretty in their own right. The bottom one is getting there.....



It's hard to see but it goes down to pure white.... I have something very similar in my stash and I really don't like threads that go down to pure white. It looks like very artificial ice cream to me!!!

So I decided to add a little pure vanilla to my ice cream.....here is the result....Raspberry Ripple with Real Vanilla



Can you see the difference when I show you the two together?

In another life if this hadn't been in the ChocoRaspberry family I would have called it Coconut Ice 'cos that's exactly what it looks like.



I would like to tat this with Chocolate Sauce but I could keep going with this forever!! I have already bored you too much.





So meet the whole family.



Finally here is my stash!! Lot of tatting there.



Do please let me know what you think and which you like best...if you read my blog and have never commented now is the time. It's easy just click on post comment...you don't need a blog of your own to do this. Each and every comment is valued.