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 

Christening present

 Hi,

I made this picture for our great niece,  who was christened last weekend,  the tatting pieces were all sewn onto the frantic,  this took hours of tatting and more hours to sew them onto the fabric.

The teddy bear and the dog came from the pattern book, Tatted animals by Inca Madsen,

The words I used a cross between tat letters by Teri Dusenbury  and then I did split rings, it took a long time to design the letters,  Teri’s patterns did help but I put my own spill on them.

The crown I used the pattern A jubilee crown by Jennifer Williams,  Maisy was born this year being a coronation year,  so I added the crown to symbol that it is a coronation year.

Maisy and I have several things in common,  Maisy is an old Scottish name for MargaretWe were both born in a coronation year,  1953 and 2023,  and born were christened in the September of the actual years.

Margaret 

Springtime Thread 20/25 Motif Challenge

 Hi,

This looks a lot of tatting,  in some ways it is but in others not,  its a lot of small items,    I tried out the Springtime thread, by Lizbeth threads in no 20,  its a new thread to me,   I think this was one Rachel from Intatters now Craftree sent me.   The picture above has the Small Cross by Mary Konior from her Pattern Collection book, I edged this cross with white which brought out the colours.    A cross bookmark called Cross of Sevens by Robin Perfetti Tatting by the Bay blog,   and Marjorie's Angel by Martha Ess.

Here is Nellie,  I am calling her Nellie its from the book called Tatted Animals  by  Inga Madsen Page 17 Elephant. I rather like Nellie I made her eye in white with a black bead,  I plan to frame her at a later date.

This is my own pattern,  a Dream catcher and you will find the pattern on my pattern blog link in the side bar.

As you can see I made quite a few items,  the thread is colourful,  I was not sure in the beginning but now yes I do like it.  There will be more made with this thread.

Below is two cross bookmarks,   named Cross of Severn's by Robin Pertetti again the same cross in Springtime,  and Royal wave  no 20 Lizbeth thread,  I did make a white one but he's gone before I had time to photo him.

I hope you are having a lovely weekend,  the weather today is lovely with sunshine but its another week of unsettle weather to come.   I wish the summer would come back for a while.

                                    Hugs

                                Margaret

Beaded Butterfly

Hi,
Today is just one of those days where Vernon and myself are not doing a lot. Hes cooking the dinner at the moment, something he enjoys so I let him get on with it. The weather is fine at the moment but there are a few clouds around, its breezy, and my washing is out so I am hopeful it might dry today.

I have some new bits for next week but in the meantime I don't think I have shown you this butterfly, its from the book Tatted Animals by Inga Madsen. I changed the butterfly a bit by putting beads instead of picots on the edges and inside the large wings I put the small wings, as I did not like having another butterfly in the large wings, as it was on the pattern. It worked out a bit wonky and loop sided next time I do it I will do a smaller version of the small wings for the inside of the larger wings.

My mojo is a bit missing at the moment, I have a job on doing two pairs of booties which I have been asked to do, I will post you a picture of them when they are both finished, I would have liked a bit more time to make them, I don't think people realise sometimes how long things take to do. It takes me three evening to do one bootie, either I am slow or its just the pattern needs time to get all the rounds done.

I have nearly finished the basket I have been lining for my friend whose daughter is soon to give birth, its been a hard job not helped by not feeling well when she asked me so I was a little naughty and left until I felt better, but I had a real go at it the other day, only my little sewing machine did not like it so theres a bit more hand sewing to finish it off. The material has been a pain as it Borderie Anglaise and its two inch squares joined together to make one piece and the seams are hard to stitch over, so I cut up an old sheet in the end and lined the basket with that plus the padding which she wanted made the seams harder for the machine to sew, hence the hand sewing, the pattern material is on the lid which I have mostly hand sewn. I will show the pictures when its finished.

It Sunday and the CD challenge is ovals, my mojo is working to think of something at the moment. I think I have something in mind but will let you see what I come up with later in the week.

Hope you are having a lovely weekend and until we meet again take care

Hugs

Margaret