Tatted Friendship Dove

 Hi,

At least today the sun us shining and although it’s as cold as it has been,   we did have a frost this morning,  this is a tatted Friendship Dove,  it was not a hard pattern but I had to keep reading as there are 90 parts to the pattern that’s rings and chains,   the pattern is by Frivolite Con Sabor.   I used Lizbeth white thread no 20 .  I do like this pattern and will make some more 

Meet Franki this small motif was designed by Noo Bear,  I did change the last row a bit by joining it to the second row where the point meets,  to make the pattern more stable.  I used Lizbeth thread no 20 in Peacock blue and Ice blue.

I am now starting a large tatting project no doubt I will take a break and tat something else in between. So watch this space as they say 

Hope you have a lovely weekend

Margaret

CD Sunday Challenge - Anything goes #77

 Hi,

Gosh its the middle of January and its seems christmas has only just finished,   its time for another challenge at the CD Sunday challenge blog,   as always its Anything goes,  this fortnight is Jo turn to be the host.

My card for this challenge I used If Flowers could talk CD by Joanna Sheen,  this is a lovely CD with images of poems by Patience Strong and this one is Think Happiness,  I thought this is very true of the moment with the virus still with us and so much unhappiness and depression around us.  We have to stay positive,  and hopefully one day we might be back to normal,  what ever normal is.

I matted the image onto green card and decoupage the spay of flowers,  using the backing sheet that came with the image.  I made a frame around the image with peel offs and added my hand made bow in the corner.

CD Sunday Plus challenge has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page

 

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Plus Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD, USB or digital material no matter how small and let us know where and what you used the material from,   and that it is a card or a project.    Here is a link to CD Sunday Plus Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend

 

Margaret

Its Snowing snowflakes

Hi,

Since christmas I have been tatting a few snowflakes,  these are new patterns that were published before christmas and I was tatting some orders that I never had time to try these out.

I have grown very fond of this snowflake its called Iwona  by Ewa Wasylliszyn,    I used white lizbeth thread no 20  for both of these and used blue and gold seed beads,  

This is another Iwona this time I used ice blue with blue beads,   the blus beads reminded me of the blur light when we did the trip to Norway,  they have 24 hours of darkness during the winter,  its not what we would call total darkness they have what they call a blue light which these blue beads represent and the ice blue thread is the reflection of the blue light in the snow.

 This is snowflake is a new snowflake designed by Wanda called Victor snowflake,   its a lovely pattern and I will be doing more but for now I am tatting something else before starting on two projects which I have wanted to tat for a while.   

I really enjoyed tatting these snowflakes,  there will be more I have no doubt about that.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend,  today we have sunshine but its is very cold with frosts in the morning at least its not raining 

Margaret

CD Sunday challenge - Anuything goes, # 76

 Hi,

This is our first challenge of the year,     lets hope covid just goes away,  no matter what happen we have kept crafting last year and hopefully will continue throughout this year.    This fortnight the host is Pamela

For my card I went for a winter scene from the CD  a winter walk in the countryside by Creative crafting,  for the image,  I did add an extre layer with the circle  on the card,    The tartan card is printed with tartan which I brought in the works. and works well with the image.

CD Sunday Plus challenge has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page

 

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Plus Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD, USB or digital material no matter how small and let us know where and what you used the material from,   and that it is a card or a project.    Here is a link to CD Sunday Plus Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend

 

Margaret

 

Happy new year

 

I wish all my friends and followers 

A 

Very happy New Year

May 2022 be a better year and one we finally get rid of COVID