Holiday Tatting. 5/25 motif challenge

 Hi,

Another beautiful day, pity yesterday was so horrible,  I suppose we did need the rain well the garden did.   Today I have the holiday tatting I did on Kos,   although their is a bit more than this but my hand has stropped me doing so much.
The above picture shows some snowflakes,  as you might have read in a previous post the Greek lady thought they should be bigger and done in thicker thread.  OK I have tatted these in No 20 Lizbeth thread.  They are Wheel of nine rings from Christmas Angels and other tatting patterns by Monica Hahn,  Snowflake Ornament from Easy tatting,  Diane s Snowflake (which you will see again in another post)  Anna magazine December 1991 no 32,  and Katie Johnson's 3 dimensional angel which I made slightly bigger by adding an extra double stitch on the chains and rings.  still not sure I like it a bit bigger.

This is the Flowering Quatrain Bookmark by www.leblogdefrivole.blogspot.com link to her blog
I used one of the balls of Lizbeth no 20 I won from Rachel last year called Carousel,  this is the first time I have used this thread.  I did a spiral chain and using the corner pattern made a square end.

Update here is how far I have got with Renuleks mat,  I did the last row in red by the pool and started the white just before we came home,   In 30 degrees heat plus it was a bit hot to tat too long.   I did talk about this in my last tatting post.

I hope you are having a nice weekend, until we meet again Take care

                                 Hugs
                             Margaret

Snowflake Challenge - Countdown to Christmas

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Day 15

Todays snowflake is the Wheel of Nine Rings,  from the book Christmas Angels and other Tatting Patterns by Monica Hahn,   this snowflake is a personal favorite and I love the onion rings funny most tatters hate them but I love them.   It was tatted in Lizbeth thread no 20.
Hope you like it to.
I was told that the photos are not appearing correctly,   Jane said she got something nasty when she click on them,  I have double checked them and had two other friends in different parts of the UK checked them and they found no problems,  they were photo'd on my windowsill which is wood and is the best place to photo anything.  If you do find anything wrong please let me know I hope I don't have a hacker hacking into my blog
                             Hugs
                        Margaret.

Snowflake Challenge - A countdown to Christmas

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Day three

Today I have a snowflakes from Monica Hahn book Christmas Angels and other tatting Patterns,  this is the Daisy Snowflake.   Tatted in Lizbeth no 20 white.
Hope you are enjoying these snowflakes.
                    Hugs
                Margaret

Tat along by Renulek (intatters) and snowflake for Sandy Hook School

 Hi,
As our weather slightly improved,  we now having many days of dark and drizzly, I suppose its an improvement from rain.  Floods are going down in some places but the boreholes are so full that they are now overflowing,  with underground water sources being so full that they now making new floods,  so all of sudden many houses are being flooded by water coming back up to the surface.  Its official 2012 was not the wettest year it came second,   2000 was the wettest by 3 mm   In Frome we had 1257 mm of rain,   1000 = 39 inches I will leave to work it out,  I can tell you I am sick of rain, please please could the person who did the rain dance for rain, change it to a sun dance.

This is the tat along mat which Renulek designed from Intatters,  link to her blog do you remember I had started it and posted it on the 28th October,  no I had look it up too.  Well now with Christmas is over I picked it up again but I was  not happy with the second row,  so look what I did with it.........

Its not often I do that,   so here it is with round two re-tatted and with round three done,   its not been blocked and I still have to sew the end in but the days are so dark I have want some better light to sew them in,  its no good trying to do it in night light.  I am using Lizbeth no 20 in Sea Island Citrus thread,   I rather like this thread, its pale and the colours bend in nicely.

The next round is very large and long so its going to take a few days to do,   and I am in the middle of the Mayan Intatters challenge,  more of that to come when my exchange partner receives it.

This is the snowflake I sent to the Snowflake appeal for the Sandy Hook  Elementary School,  they want to do a snowflake scene for when the children go back to their new school on the 12th.   I sent it off on Wednesday and then on Thursday there was a piece to say they have enough snowflakes.  Mine is winging its way over the pond by air mail.  I hope they except it for their display.
This snowflake was one I used on the daily snowflake challenge for christmas its from the book Christmas Angels and other tatting Patterns by Monica Hahn.
I hope the New Year has been kind to you,  until we meet again take care
                     Hugs
                  Margaret

Snowflake Countdown to Christmas Challenge Day 11

 Hi
Day 11

Not really a snowflake but it is a tree ornament  This is the Oriental Christmas Tree from the book Christmas Angels and Other Tatting Patterns by Monica Hahn.

                   Hugs
               Margaret

Snowflake Countdown to Christmas challenge Day 8

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Day eight

Today's snowflake is called Five Pointed Star from the book Christmas Angels and other Tatting Patterns by Monica Haln.  Tatted as usual in Lizbeth thread no 20.

            Hugs
        Margaret

Snowflake Countdown to Christmas Challenge Day 3

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Day Three
Today's snowflake is called Daisy Snowflake from the book Christmas Angels and other tatting Patterns from Monica Hahn  Tatted in Lizbeth Thread No 20.

                 Hugs
              Margaret

Snowflake Countdown to Christmas Challenge

 Hi
It worked today,  so here is the snowflake I was bring you yesterday,  On the 1st December Alison started doing a snowflake per day until Christmas.   Well I had planned to do this and then as she had started it I decided not to go ahead with my plans as it might look as copying,   then Diane stated and Alison challenged us blogger's to do a snowflake every day up to Christmas    well I hope I can bring you one every day, you might even get an angel. Link to Alison blog is here  and link to Diane's blog is here
Day one is Flocon d'Or by Joelle Paulson link to here blog  here.here   This is a beautiful snowflake and I am going to use it on my  Christmas cards,  for those who are going to get one you did not read that OK.

Day Two this is today's snowflake its called Wheel of Nine Rings from the book called Christmas Angels and other Tatting Patterns by Monica Hahn.
Both snowflakes are tatting in Lizbeth thread no 20
More rain forecasted for Somerset,  the village on a small hill in the levels of Somerset that has been cut off since the flooding is still cut off and they are pumping ten tones of water per minute off the levels and into the River Tone.  Please who ever did the rain dance could you now do a sun dance the ground can't take any more water,  its just so wet its mud.
Hope you stay dry
Until we meet again Take care
                   Hugs
                Margaret

Christmas Angel

Hi,

This is a scheduled post, hopefully they have all worked OK.
Today I am showing you my Christmas angel from the book Christmas Angels and other tatting patterns by Monica Hahn, page 8. In the pattern it is all white but I thought I would make your shirt coloured so I used Lizbeth no 20 Butterfly Breeze for the shirt and in the middle of the head dress. The white thread is also Lizbeth no 20.

This was the wing, you start with the wing first, it went down and not up, no idea why it went down but it looked wrong so I started again, Its not a difficult pattern and easy when you have done more than one. I have another one on the go when writing this post, will show you when I come back off holiday.

See you soon
take care
Hugs
Margaret

Tatted Angels, Snowflakes and Christmas Trees

Hi,
I am having one of those I can't be bothered days, the weather is windy it has been raining a bit, dull, and not very interesting. The sun has just popped out but there's plenty of grey clouds around.
Today I am showing my tatted Angel, this is Katie Johnson's 3-Dimensional Angel pattern, she glues the skirt onto the body, but I have played with the pattern and by doing two picots at the bottom of the body I can attach the rings and make the skirt so she strands up. I have shown her before but I thought I would show her again.
This snowflake and the next one are from Anna Magazine December 1991, I wish they had not stop printing the English version, I know I have said it before but when I go abroad I always look to see if I can get a copy of any current German ones as they still print it in German.

Both of these are on sale in my Esty store at the moment. they are easy to tat and don't take very long to do.

This is a new snowflake from the book Christmas Angels and other Tatting Patterns by Monica Hahn, I found this pattern easy and I love the way the rings flow, a couple of the rings look a little drunk but I have not ironed it yet.
This Christmas tree pattern is also from the same book, I also loved this pattern although I had a few unpicking at first its not difficult and once you get the hang of the pattern worked up quite easy, I also did it in the Christmas thread by Lizbeth called Christmas Delight, I really love this thread, well I think by now you all know that. I am going to do it again with some beads. I do like to test a pattern without beads before tatting them in.

All the above were tatted in Lizbeth thread no 20.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend and the weather is a bit better where ever you are. I shall be watching the F1 later, I did not get up early for the race this morning so it will be the repeat, Japanese time is a bit too early for me, I hope Jensen Button our local boy will have a good race he was second on the row, I have not seen who won it that would spoil the race for me.

Until we meet again take care

Hugs

Margaret