International Tatting Day

 Hi,

Happy international Tatting day,  ok it’s the 1st April but it’s not an April fool,  it really is a very real international tatting day when us tatters,  celebrate tatting,  not sure if I will be tatting in public but I hopefully will be doing some tatting at some point,  and of course we enjoy chocolate while tatting.

This teddy is part of the christening present I am making for Matilda,  the christening if you follow the blog was at the beginning of March,  well I am still working on it,  but as I had nothing to show for our day,  I decided to show you the teddy.  The pattern is from the book tatted animals by Inga Madsen,  I love this book and this teddy was also on Maisy christening present I made her.  (They are sisters). I know I am making slow progress,  I have another appointment at the Royal United,  no results yet from the heart echo, but now they want to do something else.  It just goes on and on.  I am still here as they say.

Have a lovely day 

Margaret 

Floral cards

Hi,

Last month I was going to make some floral cards,  well what with a hospital in stay and then the bug I caught in the hospital,  last month came and went with not much done.   I have now made the  floral cards I had cut out to make,  the one above is a free one from craftsuprint,  and the one below was the left over pieces which I made into a small thank you card.

This next set is from Flowers of the month kit by Debbi Moore,  the first one is January,    February and then the last one is March.  I do love this kit and they have some beautiful images for each month,

January this one was a small image and I added a bow and some peel off lines around the image, the flowers are decoupaged,  their was no backing sheet so I used the envelope strip as a backing paper.  I put the flower image as a diamond.

February,   The flowers again were decoupaged and I used the envelope pieces as a backing paper.  I put the flower image at an angle to be different.

March and I think this was my favourite so far,  again I decoupaged the flowers,  and used the envelope sheet as the backing paper. On this card I put the flower image straight.

Three  months and three different flowers, colours and I tried to make them different 

I hope you like these floral cards.

Margaret.

March is crochet month, crochet key ring hangers

 Hi,

I have not posted as much recently,  still waiting for the results of the heart echo,  I am still here and today is a beautiful day here in somerset,  the sun is shinning and although not quite as warm as it has been the last few days it’s dry,  rain is forecasted for next week.

I made these few crochet key ring hangers over the last couple of months,   Last time I posted some of these was back in November link to  Blog.   I try do something different on a sunday,  and these seem to fit in well for sunday working.   I have some knitting to get done unfortunately I am suffering with my hand,  it got damaged when I was in hospital and is getting worse.  so knitting is only done for a short while in the evenings,  and the  christening present yes I am still working on it,  I am now doing the embroidery part,  will show  you when  it’s finished.

These key ring hangers could be used to hang anywhere,  the pattern is from asli-ime on Instagram and she as a YouTube channel called knitting my hobby

Hope you are having a lovely weekend

Margaret

Cute mouses

 Hi,

Here in the U.K. today is Mother’s Day,  I’m not a mother but I hope anyone who is they have a lovely day.

On Facebook  DM delights card making group have a monthly competition this month is cute cards,  which I am entering both these cards,  they are from the kit Cute animals thinking of you,  by debbi Moore.

Have a great day

Margaret. 

Christening card

 Hi,

We went to a christening in Oxfordshire on Sunday.  It was a lovely day weather wise,   it stayed fine although there was a cold wind.

My card was a bit of a rushed job,  I used a cream base card,  I lacy pink designed paper as background,  a dark pink card and a gold peel off of a baby’s cradle,  I used gold peel off lines to finish off the card, with peel off words on your christening.

Her christening present is not finished,  I was not well enough to work on it,    but they will get the present when I have finished it,  and I will show you if and when it’s finished.

Margaret.

St David’s Day , 1st March

 Hi,

Today is St David’s day,  in Wales daffodils are the national flower

Ice drops have took the tatting world by storm and this is an idea I came up with when I looked at a bunch of daffodils,   It was a try and see but when I put it on Ice Drops Facebook page they went wild for it, 
The pattern is partly the ice drop pattern and then an extra round of rings joined around the ice drop again.  I used the idea from the pattern Daffodil brooch for St David’s Day by Jennifer Williams.

This is my daffodil ice drop,  which I made some years ago,  I was going to do something else but unfortunately I have not been well enough it achieve anything new.  So sorry please enjoy my ice drop daffodil again.

We are in Oxfordshire at a christening today,  

Have a lovely day 

Margaret 

Floral heart

 Hi,

I was going make February floral card month and make a selection of floral cards,   Well that was the plan, but even the best laid plans don’t always happen.  As it is no it did not,  this was the first card,  it laid in pieces for at least two weeks and another two weeks to be finished off.   February has been a bad month and a short stay in hospital was not planned, but happen,  then I came home with a bug.  As always as they say you go in hospital with one thing and come out with something else.  That just knocked me off my feet,  I’m still not a 100% but a lot better than I was.

This card was a freebie from Craftsuprint,  every week they give out a free design,  this one I liked as it’s unusual with the flowers in the heart.  I made this into a wedding anniversary card to add to my stock.

Well there’s at least three possibly four cards on my desk ready to make up,  so perhaps March will be a floral card month.

Have a lovely week,

Margaret