tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335775152024-03-07T10:02:17.527+01:00snowy's tattingKatherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-75876667678842891302017-11-26T19:28:00.000+01:002017-11-26T19:33:50.458+01:00Back again, UN squares<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I haven't been doing any tatting for ages...new relationship, life is complicated, problems with my job, all these factors have meant that tatting has not been a priority.<br />
I am going to show firstly the incredibly slow process of my heart doily...<br />
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I think I will stop this once I finish this round because the next round is a lot of motifs needing to be made and attached, which I think will be too much for me. I can't even remember where the pattern came from!<br />
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Then I have been trying to make the Rosy Ironbark book mark, (pattern on Etsy) but I am not concentrating, it will probably be just a first effort, and I will try again to get it perfect. My eldest daughter became an Australian citizen last year, here she is wearing a T-shirt that represents the indigenous Australian flag, receiving her certificate. My father was also very interested by Australian plants, so for those reasons I want to make this book mark perfectly!<br />
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This is the progress so far, but it doesn't look like the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/72375680/tatting-pattern-rosy-ironbark?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=tatting%20pattern&ref=sr_gallery_19" target="_blank">photo on the pattern!</a><br />
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Something else that has caught my attention was a post on Yarnplayer's page, a Belgian tatter who has a project to build a "monument" from pink tatted squares, she explains her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lilo.cassandre.7/posts/312152819264446" target="_blank">project here.</a><br />
Anyway, I have made two, neither is perfect, I need to have another go. If anyone else decides to have a go I recommend using two shuttles, because otherwise you need to use the shoelace trick to keep on the right track.<br />
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<br />Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-23494659689530389372016-08-27T20:17:00.001+02:002016-08-27T20:17:57.537+02:00Snowflake projectI am working on snowflakes because my lace teacher wants to have an exhibition this year. We never seem to manage to have enough pieces to justify our existence, but it is difficult to attract new students if there is nothing to be seen.<br />
I was doing ok, but then I had <a href="http://wosny.livejournal.com/288616.html" target="_blank">my accident</a>. Still I am soldiering on.<br />
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These are the first few flakes, mostly tatted, but one in torchon.</div>
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Another torchon flake, but I haven't had tried to continue with it since the accident.</div>
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Some point ground which I was trying to learn, with the idea of doing a point ground snowflake...I don't know if that is going to happen!</div>
Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-84224263140938370372015-12-20T23:03:00.002+01:002015-12-20T23:03:32.962+01:00Round 2 of heart doily<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am so tied up with puppies and work and bobbin lace, however I do get a little bit of this doily done most evenings. I like the colour of this thread, a gift from Fox, and this is very relaxing. I have begun round three but wanted to show this stage finished, before adding the next row.Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-88216808885531123512015-11-24T20:40:00.002+01:002015-11-24T20:40:34.731+01:00Stuff that has at last been finished...sort of.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gold braid, torchon bookmark, two snowflakes, and a bit of the heart doily, which has increased a little bit!<br />
Ok the ends are still waiting to be sewn in, but I am pleased to be able to record a bit of progress.<br />
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I love to work while listening to podcasts, I can absolutely recommend one called <a href="http://qi.com/podcast/" target="_blank">"No such thing as a fish"</a> which is from the QI elves.<br />
Funny and fascinating at the same time, if you love knowing useless facts give it a listen.Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-74396016885122193732015-11-18T21:30:00.002+01:002015-11-18T21:31:21.336+01:00Bobbins, shuttles and a cat...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is James, offering to help with my gold lace braid.<br />
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And this is the aforementioned braid.<br />
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And here is a bit of land of lace's heart doily round one. Let me just say that it's a pattern that is quite a brain teaser, and I have done a lot of unpicking and re-tatting...and I am still only on the third repeat!Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-13819929501133981882015-11-06T19:50:00.000+01:002015-11-06T19:50:09.692+01:00Ooh look, gift!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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No-one knows where I live, nowadays, so I get no post...however Fox did manage to get this package to me, and I was really excited to find this in my post box after a fairly difficult day. <br />
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I thought I had taken more photos, but anyway here are two lovely tatted motifs and a motif of Romanian lace, which will inspire me to have a go, also some shuttles and thread which are beautiful, but I will show you when I manage to get tatting. I have made some bobbin lace this week, I may show later once I have done the tatting as promised.Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-65952280975696323582015-10-28T22:46:00.002+01:002015-10-28T22:46:35.178+01:00I am back!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Look, some lace! This torchon bookmark has been made over the last three weeks, even though I have many other things going on.<br />
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I have even dug out some shuttles, and so I am almost finished with this snowflake. I am using size 50 DMC, and a pattern from <a href="http://tattingbythebay.blogspot.fr/">Tatting by the Bay</a>. Fox has inspired me to look into knotted lace, but I need to wait for pay-day to buy the book...<br />
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(I just want to explain that my life has changed course...so that I am now living alone, in a cute little flat with my adored deerhound, her eight puppies and three somewhat disconsolate cats. I work with profoundly handicapped children and young adults. I am very happy.)Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-87489602084235760482014-03-28T09:12:00.001+01:002014-03-28T09:12:33.505+01:00Kitty Fisher found it!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My bag was at the Mairie! I went to Prayssac with some posters to put up, and the ladies at the Boulangerie said to ask at the Syndicat d'Initiative and the Mairie...and there it was. I nearly kissed the Policier who gave it to me. So happy, especially as it had a special Shuttle Shop shuttle with my name on. However I seem to have lost my tatting inspiration, and everything I try goes wrong, ah well, perhaps I need to look for that as well!Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-61064065969746759072014-03-20T22:56:00.001+01:002014-03-20T22:56:10.842+01:00Lucy Locket lost her pocket...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Somehow I have lost my tatting pochette, which is in this picture. :(<br />
From DS9 designs it has been with me for 10 years or so.<br />
It was in my bag yesterday, but when I came home from the bank it was no longer there.* It has some shuttles, scissors, hooks and my current bits of work, so I guess they will never be finished.<br />
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Heyho, many far more terrible things happen, I hope whoever found it treasures it, even if they have no idea what it is all about!<br />
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* I did go back today and ask, but no one has seen it.<br />
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Onto the bandwagon.<br />
My first attempt at the Spring doily, mistakes a go-go!<br />
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Second attempt, both are worked in Majestic thread, which is a little bit twisty, but the colours are wonderful.Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-32613378392187473192014-03-14T20:37:00.003+01:002014-03-14T20:37:34.952+01:00Delia finished at last<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have at last finished Delia, but I haven't been making any kind of lace/crafty stuff.<br />
I have hopped onto the bandwagon which is Renulek's Spring doily, and I hope to share a photo tomorrow of the rather disappointing progress so far.Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-36211432189559059872014-02-04T10:36:00.000+01:002014-02-04T10:36:01.781+01:00Lace class, 3 February<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This tiny patch represents three hours in lace class! Of course much was done, then undone, then redone. I am learning to throw out pairs from the half stitch section, as well as the 12 legged spider! I know it looks easy, but I really struggled...I must try to keep going because I leave to stay with my mother on Saturday, and if I don't practise I will forget how to do it. :(<br />
Plus as luck would have it I need to work today and tomorrow.<br />
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Oh, I am including the finished pincushions, with the buttons sewn on.<br />
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They were fun to make and I have some more evenweave, so I might do some more blackwork...although the evenweave is green, so I am not sure how well it will work.Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-2580367623682581362014-01-25T12:22:00.001+01:002014-01-25T12:22:59.474+01:00January update.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had to make a bobbin roll for all 52 pairs I needed for Monday's lace class.<br />
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Delia is still causing me problems, I had to cut again...I have lost my enthusiasm. I get like this when something takes too long, hence the heaps of WIP hanging around on my desk.<br />
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I am continuing this edging slowly, I have a plan for it.<br />
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I made this while waiting for David, and having nothing in my bag but a lonely half wound shuttle!<br />
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Lace started, a torchon ground, called chemin de Rose.<br />
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Another view.<br />
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My blackwork project is done, well I still need to finish stuffing and add the buttons, but I am happy with it. I might even make another one.<br />
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This lace butterfly was quick and easy, except I will never try to finish with a cluny again! Another time I will start the two antennae, then join at the head and then work the wings.<br />
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The cream and black one was worked by a friend at lace class. She also had difficulty finishing with a cluny!Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-42157954191525474562014-01-02T09:57:00.000+01:002014-01-02T09:57:41.518+01:00Serendipidity?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The week before Christmas my friend closed her patchwork shop, after two years business. She had some tatting thread that she had ordered, when we hoped that people might be interested in learning, but now unsold it was just unwanted stock. I felt duty bound to buy some even though they were not colours I thought I wanted. The photo isn't very good...but they are classic DMC variegated threads.<br />
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Then last weekend, having not tatted for ages, I was travelling by train to Paris. I didn't want to take any of my multiple WIPs, as they are all at stages where I have to do something fiddly to carry on. I decided to do an edging, which means that I don't need to refer to a pattern, and it doesn't matter how much I do.<br />
I chose an old favourite and the new unchosen threads, so that it wouldn't matter if it got lost or mistakes were made.... and I did this:<br />
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To my surprise the colours worked well, and it looks really pretty.<br />
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By the time I came home again I had done eleven repeats!<br />
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This is me tatting in Le Jardin des Tuileries.<br />
We had a great time, and now I love those colours.<br />
I wish everyone a happy and healthy new year, Bonne Année, Bonne Santé à Tous!Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-5710891017086879202013-12-20T17:05:00.002+01:002013-12-20T17:05:56.511+01:00This week I have mostly been...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Doing Blackwork. This is the kit I received the other day, with the first half finished. I changed some of the filling patterns, and I tend towards more open fillings, so I have not filled as much as in the pattern, but as it is all still on the frame I can add more if it looks too empty at the end.<br />
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Blackwork is not very portable, but I can do it while watching television. We haven't got a signal at the moment so we are working our way through episodes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Creek">Jonathan Creek</a> on the computer via an HDMI cable.Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-80959155497968018722013-12-13T11:02:00.001+01:002013-12-13T11:02:24.114+01:00More lace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a sample of Torchon ground showing four different stitches.<br />
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This is the finished sample of Flanders, with the (not very) heart shapes. Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-24767577156722643732013-11-30T08:48:00.000+01:002013-11-30T08:48:27.018+01:00Wittering about lace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This photo shows the first heart completed...yes, ok it looks more like a kidney than a heart, but still...<br />
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I want to insist that this is probably the most bobbins I have ever worked with, and it can feel a bit daunting sometimes.<br />
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Yesterday I received this excellent book from<a href="http://www.jofirthlacemaking.co.uk/index.htm"> Jo Firth lacemaking</a>. I had been looking for it for some time, but mostly it was way too expensive. This copy is in mint condition.<br />
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Who wouldn't want to make this cute kitty edging? I think it's a bit too complicated for me at the moment, as just working out the bobbins for the heart shapes takes me ages.<br />
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The patterns are so pretty though.<br />
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Right, today I want to finish heart number three, ready for the final lesson on Monday. (This is the backside of the lace, it looks better from the front.)Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-15079865526628899842013-11-17T18:14:00.001+01:002013-11-17T18:14:38.856+01:00Oh D--n!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had started Delia, using Perfect Quilter colourway Pansies. Here it is, after I had done the first repeat, and I was quite happy with it.<br />
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But then I started to make mistakes...and after I had cut and restarted I realised I had made a mistake way back...and the scissors need to come out again. Oh, it is so frustrating!Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-36026321909799729952013-11-01T21:43:00.001+01:002013-11-01T21:43:52.021+01:00doilies and lace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So Cornelia was finished last Sunday.<br />
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Snowflake doily has some more snowflakes completed...but I used a different shade of yellow for some of them. I know some tatting friends would cut and throw...but I will probably just aim for symmetry.<br />
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This is three hours work! Yes ground lace is slow progress.<br />
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112 bobbins...I thought that impressive...<br />
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Then I had a go at this butterfly, which was not only lots of bobbins, but all running in different directions. There are quite a few mistakes not least being the choice of thread, which was much thicker than the pattern called for. Rule 1, obey the instructions. :)<br />
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So this is the first wing finished, and I took about five days to get this far.Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-70527476477986953892013-10-17T15:53:00.000+02:002013-10-17T15:53:15.679+02:00Slow slow progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have three doilies on the go at the moment, and I am dying to get on with some different ones. I have told myself that I must finish something before starting something else, or else it all becomes too complicated, especially as I have a lace lesson on Monday to start a new piece of bobbin lace! Here is Cornelia, not too much left to do, is there? I am thinking that is probably my best bet.<br />
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Renulek's Snowflake doily had been sitting quietly at row 4, but Janemac finishing hers persuaded me to pick it up again, and it was her suggestion that this row should be red and yellow. I am really pleased with it, and think I will use yellow for the joining motifs as well. Each snowflake takes about an hour... although I may get faster with practise. Not likely to be all done by Monday though!<br />
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And finally this thing! The multi motif mish-mash which is a victorian design from a German book. It seems to be taking forever. The very vigilant may see that some progress has been made since I last showed you what was going on, but believe me, it is fiddly and complicated and needs full concentration, plus being made of tiny elements there is a ton of ends to hide. This will not be finished by Monday unless I did nothing else for the next three days!Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-31430419668139190782013-10-14T09:14:00.000+02:002013-10-14T09:14:13.092+02:00Some catching up.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the first half of Cordelia from Iris Niebach's book of doilies. I was going to do Delia, because I already made Cordelia a couple of years ago, but I made a mistake after just a few rings and chains. I decided to return to the earlier pattern, get my hand in and then try Delia once I was feeling more practised. The thread is Lizbeth wildflowers size 80, and it is tatting up nicely. :)Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-70407748583200017292013-10-11T15:02:00.001+02:002013-10-11T15:02:58.408+02:00Scanner not really obeying my instructions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I will just show you some not very good scans of some tatted bits. This motif, from a magazine and designed by Edwige Renaudin, is in Yarnplayer's Sugar Maple, size 80.<br />
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This is me trying the Sulky Wildflowers, from the parcel I showed yesterday. I like the thread, and I love the colour.<br />
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I apologise for the scan...and I made this in Perfect Quilter Pansies, with three mistakes! That is why I haven't bothered about hiding the ends. <br />
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And lastly for now, two squares from Patchwork in Occhi, which once again could not be persuaded to match up to each other.<br />
The one on the right reminds me of a very early motif <a href="http://flocondeneige-frivolite.blogspot.fr/2006/10/i-finished-it.html">I did in 2006</a> although now I look again, I see the colours are not so similar!Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-39292067221677669572013-10-10T11:12:00.000+02:002013-10-10T11:12:11.547+02:00Did anyone notice?In mid-August my computer died, and I was only able to get sporadic access via other people's machines, which meant I couldn't post or even do much commenting. However I am never the most voluble of bloggers or commenters so I don't suppose my absence was noticed at all!<br />
I haven't got my scanner linked up yet, but I can show you the thread I bought from <a href="http://ds9designs./">ds9designs.</a><br />
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<span id="goog_2068192488"></span><span id="goog_2068192489"></span>I have been tatting a bit... and in a day or two I will try to show you what I have made, or rather several WIP which are advancing slowly.<br />
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The weather here in Lot is turning colder, and it is expected to rain all day, so I may be able to get a bit more done today. :)<br />
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<br />Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33577515.post-23019478188446049022013-08-19T21:18:00.000+02:002013-08-19T21:18:27.183+02:00Catching up, running late.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Firstly I have to explain that I am running very close to crazy at the moment...and feel as though I am likely to do something I regret. However, in the meantime I have been trying to finish some things, for example this was kicking around with just one and a half repeats to do, but no thread on the shuttle. At last I finished, but now, do I carry on, or call it a day. The next row is fiddly with lots of motifs... not my favourite thing, plus I am not sure how to choose the colours. Well I will look at it again later, to make up my mind. (<a href="http://renulek.blogspot.fr/2012/11/serwetka-sniezna-rzad-5-czesc-druga.html">Pattern by Renulek</a>)<br />
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Masquerade by Mary Konior just needs the ends sewn in, I think it has a lovely look to it, done here in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tatilicious">Tatilicious' Grackle Mess,</a> size ? 40, I can't remember, sorry.<br />
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This pattern has had me squealing with frustration! It is from a German book called "Viktorianisches Occhi" and is the beginning of a doily. I am using some DMC 100 lace thread which my son bought me as a present. Well the pattern is all made up of separate motifs and bare threads, it flips and flops in every direction, and it gets very grubby very fast. There are six petals, SIX! not to mention all the little stars in between. This is <u>not</u> soothing to tat.<br />
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I know, decorating tatting shuttles is soo 2010! However, I decided to try it, <a href="http://decoromana.blogspot.fr/2010/10/how-to-decoupage-tatting-shuttle.html">following this page.</a> Mine were something of a disaster, with rough edges and bumpy surfaces. Luckily I chose shuttles that were not my favourites, the one that now has shells on was already broken and mended, so I don't feel I have lost anything. I may try again...perhaps I can work out from my mistakes what to do another time. Suggestions welcome!<br />
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To finish I have been working on these edgings, the pattern is <a href="http://leblogdefrivole.blogspot.fr/p/patterns.html">"Iris" by Frivole</a>, and the golden thread is some of the <a href="http://www.tat-ology.com/2013/07/vanquishing-valdani.html">Valdani, kindly donated by Fox</a>, while the other is a Gütermann machine thread. I am having a little difficulty going round the corner...and it would be helped by a press with the iron, but the iron and the ironing board have been put away in case of visitors...so I am not going to do it now.Katherinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535283952234877878noreply@blogger.com4