Showing posts with label tatting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tatting. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Rocky's Birthday
My neice is turning 12 this Saturday and I'm sending this to her. It was fun to make and my first attempt at a Split Ring. I love love love how the coloring turned out. So not planned.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Mics.
A number of projects are under way in my world right now. Ripping continues on the Carol Berg books as does tatting a lovely green doily. I am attempting to tat something of my ownish design. It's a challenge from a tatting site in which I was given a diagram of the rings and we were to come up with the chains and picots. It's not going baaaaadly, but it isn't great either. I'll take pictures when I get to a "stopping" point (and empty the memory card of Boo pics).
On other fronts that have nothing to do with book making or tatting I was given 12.5 pounds of gourmet artisan chocolate today. I've started a list of "things to make with chocolate". Crazy I know, but I count my blessings as they come.
On other fronts that have nothing to do with book making or tatting I was given 12.5 pounds of gourmet artisan chocolate today. I've started a list of "things to make with chocolate". Crazy I know, but I count my blessings as they come.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Suttleless Tatting
I'm working on a doily by the amazing Jon yusoff. It has three motifs that you tat together. I'm doing it in size 40 green (Christmas) variegated thread by HH Lizbeth. So my tatting is a lot smaller than the picture from Jon's site. It's lovely and when I get more done and my end hidden (which I stink at) I'll take pictures.
Last night I was adding a third clover circle when I got to the end of my thread; metaphorically, metaphysically and literally. Here's the short version.
There are 8 clovers, I just started the 7th one when I realized that I had made a join wrong in the 5th one. Do I cut it off and try again or undo all the tatting. (some may say tatting is undo-undo-able, but I've gotten very good at it) It would take me the same amount of time to tat anew as undo and fix so I chose to fix it. *sigh* I was near enough to the end of the shuttle thread that I just took it off for the undoing. Then I started to tat again. As I approached the 8th clover I found I had enough thread to finish, but not enough to loop it all around my hands like "normal" shuttle tatting. So what did I do?
Yep, I took it off the shuttle again and did it with two loose threads. It worked out and the tension is fine, but boy howdy was it a pain. I felt like it was me vs. the tatting.
Today I write fiction and work on the books.
Last night I was adding a third clover circle when I got to the end of my thread; metaphorically, metaphysically and literally. Here's the short version.
There are 8 clovers, I just started the 7th one when I realized that I had made a join wrong in the 5th one. Do I cut it off and try again or undo all the tatting. (some may say tatting is undo-undo-able, but I've gotten very good at it) It would take me the same amount of time to tat anew as undo and fix so I chose to fix it. *sigh* I was near enough to the end of the shuttle thread that I just took it off for the undoing. Then I started to tat again. As I approached the 8th clover I found I had enough thread to finish, but not enough to loop it all around my hands like "normal" shuttle tatting. So what did I do?
Yep, I took it off the shuttle again and did it with two loose threads. It worked out and the tension is fine, but boy howdy was it a pain. I felt like it was me vs. the tatting.
Today I write fiction and work on the books.
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