A round finished !!!

Well....I made it around!!!  

I am happy that I have actually gotten that round done, because it makes it that much closer to having my snowman take shape(you will all have to wait and see what exactly I am talking about)!!!

I tried to capture the sparkle in the beads when taking the picture.

For those wondering...this is size 10 Lizbeth Blue Ice thread, and some clear  iridescent beads for sparkle!.

I hope your day has been blessed, and time for tatting filled!!!  :)

Back to work on a project which felt forgotten

Way...way...back in Oct. 2014 I posted this:  

 http://hiskid66.blogspot.com/2014/10/still-tatting-here.html

If you look closely you can see a tatted project hiding under the garland.  I was hoping to surprise everyone, but somehow it got really set aside(but definitely not! forgotten).  

Well, it's been made a priority, and is currently back in progress.

On my sidebar of this blog I now have an accountability list(2016 tatting goals) and the first is a large snowman suncatcher.  Now, let me tell you, this is not like anything I have ever seen in tatting, but I am hoping I can make it, make it well!, and get it done this year(finally!).

Here is the project which was started and has about 1/4 of the next round done.....

This project will take quite some time, and I have several other goals in that list to try to complete also!!!

Hope you are all having a wonderful and tat-filled day!!!  :)

No picture just something funny to say....

I was getting ready to wind shuttles for a new doily I plan on tatting for a gift for next Christmas when I told my daughter I was going to go and wind some tattles .  

She started laughing and said tattles????  Like tattle tails???  

I said yep, not shuttles today, tattles.  :)

Hope you all had a great day and got some tatting done with your tattles(wink)!!!  :)

No more Kaleidoscope HDT left

I love this colorway and am so sad to say that I cannot get anymore!!!

I had so much fun tatting with it and there is none left.

I just had to make another tiny "beaded flower"-although I call it the beaded starflower, so now I have a pair which can be made into earrings for someone.  :)

I tatted those beaded flowers and had a little bit left so....I tatted this bookmark using Mary Konior's Chain Reaction edging pattern from Tatting with Visual Patterns(book), and call it my Chain Reaction bookmark.  I had to guess at how to make the end, and I think it turned out well.  It has a slight curve, but what you see here is just thrown on the scanner. 

As you can see with most of my tatting...sewing in ends gets put off till I feel like it(which isn't often).  

I hope your start to this new year has been tatfully wonderful!!! :)

And one more tonight....

Well, I adjusted those longer outer chains to 8ds and I think they look closer to the picture in the original pattern.  

I think all three have their own uniqueness and love them all!!!  :)

Again, the pattern is..the Beaded Flower pattern from Corina Meyfeldt at CM-Handmade:  http://cmhandmade.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/pattern-for-beaded-flower.html

It's tatted in size 40 Kaleidoscope HDT from Tat-i-licious.

Hoping your day has been filled with excitement and tatting!!  :)

2016 First tatting & post

Ok, here is the correct version.  The only thing is that it doesn't look exactly like the photo on the pattern.  The larger chains on the outside look much more pronounced, so....I am going to try again, but lower the count on those to 8.  Either way, this is a beautiful and simple enough pattern(when you figure out how to place the beads-I wrote myself notes).  This one is about the size of a 50 cent piece(for all those in America).

Again, the pattern is..the Beaded Flower pattern from Corina Meyfeldt at CM-Handmade:  http://cmhandmade.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/pattern-for-beaded-flower.html

It's tatted in size 40 Kaleidoscope HDT from Tat-i-licious.

Hoping you are having a tatfully wonderful Jan. 1 !!!  :)

Oh my...the end of another year of tatting???

This thing may be the size of a quarter, but it captures my attention!!!  :)

It is the Beaded Flower pattern from Corina Meyfeldt at CM-Handmade:  http://cmhandmade.blogspot.com.es/2013/07/pattern-for-beaded-flower.html

***Now let me inform you that it is actually not correct, but it's still beautiful to me.  

I was finishing off a shuttle and thought I could tat this.  I didn't read the pattern through and wasn't sure how the beads should go to get them in the correct places, so after 3 starts I finally got going, but realized that I missed a bead on the bottom of the 3 near the outer section...oh well, it looks good.  And I didn't have enough thread to get 6 petals done, so I ended up with 5.  Either way, I love it!!! And, I will try and tat it again.....CORRECTLY(later).  :)

It's tatted in size 40 Kaleidoscope HDT from Tat-i-licious.

May your New Year be blessed with lots of beautiful tatting, and blessings!!!  :)