Ten Toes Trump Tatting

No time for fingers last week. Instead, I walked for many, many miles and managed but a few meagre repeats of the pattern I had taken along.

Only this little bit of an edging was begun, in #80 variegated Lizbeth from Denise, following Jon's Crown of Thorns pattern, which I find to be a very pleasing design for a hankie border.  Thanks, Jon!

Before I left, I was able to get this finished.  

It is Karey’s Plain and Fancy Doily,  Jess’s HDT, #40
and Delica beads from Miranda.

                                                                                #18

En Vacance!

See you in about a week...  

I will be finishing this one, which I am loving...

HDT by Jess at Tat-ilicious

...and starting one of Jon’s that uses a daisy picot ring...  

Needing lots of practice!

Reject and Renew

  #17/100  Pattern by Lyn Morton  
#40 HDT Garden Afternoon, by Yarnplayer

I am getting smarter in my old age.  After beginning another of Lyn Morton’s patterns to use the last of the would-bobbin thread, I realized that the new pattern I have begun was not working out the way I had intended it to look:

So, off the shuttle came the black Cébélia #40, which is terribly fuzzy, which I will not use it again. I wound some Lizbeth to go with the HDT in yellow and greens, another HDT of Jess’s that I believe I won in a draw... I cannot seem to find reference to the name of this thread - sorry Jess!

The latest attempt. 

 Cébélia replaced with Lizbeth #40:

The pattern is a secret. (not my design!)
So far - so good!

Cavorting With Colour

I pulled out an old Lyn Morton book to find a pattern that did not use too much thread, wanting  to use up some already wound bobbins.

                                               #16

I am always amazed at how very different a pattern appears, depending upon whether  it is tatted in white, ecru, black or in colour.

This is a lovely book.  I have had it for a while and I seem to forget about it, but then I find it again, delighting in the patterns tatted from it's pages.

I Hear You! Bean Sprouts?

Your comments sent me to the steam iron, since obviously I have still not learned not to post too hastily; I just get so excited to show off my new creation!

Here it is again, (see last post for the BEFORE photo) after a bit of hasty blocking. With more time devoted to this aspect of my tatting, I think I could force even more of an improvement, but as I said, I get very excited, so here it is again.

A bit more sprout-like...  : ))

Snow Star

...in Spring!

  

I love this!  It is from Patterns and Tatting Designs, by Blomqvist and Persson. Seems as I have overcome my fear and loathing of this book - at last.  Seems I am gloating a tiny bit as well...   

#15      Silk Zwicky thread in centre from Krystle, 

Pink #50 Altin Basak, #40 Lizbeth for the rest.

This gives an idea as to the size of the two patterns 

I have tatted from that book: