A tiny test tat today

Believe it or not this cross is about the size of my pinky finger.

It's a re-design of a cross I adapted from one of Elaine P. Gan's 

bracelet patterns.  Elaine saw my adaptation and asked if she 

could try it.  And I told her absolutely since it was her pattern

just adapted.  So, this is what she came up with, and 

she said she didn't think it looked like a cross, but I told her 

it did, even with my very lazy and not good tatting today.

It's in size 40 Lizbeth Salmon Med.

Needing to sew in ends on the "hide & seek" doily tonight

and block next week.

Have a great weekend!!!  Get some tatting in!!!  :)

Only one more round to go.....

Well, the "hide & seek" doily is coming to a finale!!!

I have one more round to go and then some severe blocking 

to do!!!  As you can see it's a bit ruffly right now, 

but I am not worried! 

Since today has been awful gray and rainy,

I had my "blue"(skies) in my hands.  :)

Have a wonderful tat-filled day today!!!

Renulek's 2016 Spring Doily round 6 completed

I have been working hard to keep up and so far

succeeding.

The "hide & seek" doily has another round completed to,

but it's in dire need of blocking, although, I think

I may just finished the final 2 rounds and then 

block it into total submission and let it sit a week

then prepare it for Christmas wrapping!  :)

Then, I have to start another Christmas gift 

which seems like a challenge piece to me.  :)

Have a wonderful day and tatting time too!!!  :)

Tatting today in size 3

I have decided that using size 3 works great when doing 

a lot of chains in a row.  :)

This is size 3 Pretty as a Rainbow HDT from 

CustomCottonEtc. 

Here are some other size 3 multi-chain tattings I did

in 2013 as Christmas gifts.

 

Size 3 motif and 5 round size 40 doily....same size *******Correction*******size 80 doily

Can you believe this???

Oh man!!!!  My brain has been in a scramble

and when I got on my blog and saw size 40 on 

this I knew I messed up!!!

The doily is in size 80 Lizbeth threads!!!

Renulek's 2016 Spring Doily round 5 completed

Round 5 is complete.  Ends not sewn in yet. 

 Probably at the completion of the doily.

Again, this is tatted in size 80 Lizbeth Summer Fun and Snow White

Ok....Now to keep my mind occupied for the rest of

the night.

Have a fabulous tatting night!!  :)

Another round of the "hide & seek" doily completed

Ok....for as simple as this doily should be there are

a few structural challenges for me(mainly the clover rounds

which seem to be tight), but the biggest challenge is my

hubby.  He is a truck driver so he is usually gone a lot, but

his new job is not keeping him busy so money is low, but

that isn't my problem.....my problem is that he is home and

I can't get time to work on this doily with him here!!!

So.....since I knew he is out for at least 4 hours today

I finished this round which has taken far longer than 

it should have.  I believe there are 2 or 3 more rounds

to completion, and a ton of blocking!!!!

It's already over 15 inches across.

Next, I was playing this weekend with size 3 thread.

The pattern is Carnival from Mary Konior's Tatting with

Visual Patterns.  The thread is Pretty as a Rainbow HDT from CustomCottonEtc.

Here is a size comparison with a size 100

 Rainbow Bright HDT from Tatskool,Carnival motif, 

which was tatted years ago.

The smaller one has better color in this picture.

And this picture shows the colors in the larger one better.

I also started a spinning wheel glass mat, but I know there

is not enough thread to complete it so...It's just a very large

doodle.  :)  Maybe I will show the picture later.

Have a wonderful day and may tatting fill a space in it!!!  :)