Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Beady Earrings for Maureen

New adventures in tatting! A friend suggested I buy this pattern book and make earrings, and Maureen volunteered to own my first pair. How nice of her... The next time we went to Michaels, we spent a very hungry hour searching for the right kind of beads. She decided she didn't want exactly the version in the book, so we made some appropriate modifications.  I think they turned out so beautifully that we might end up having matching pairs. A new steam iron got some use, and the earrings are pressed and ready to go.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

It's a goat!

I just completed Jane's Tat it and See. It was a goat! The blog is designed so you get the pattern in many parts, and you don't know what it is until the last few installments, so my goat turned out pink. Its all a fun mystery. You can see the finished pattern and goats of many colors here: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.com/?m=1 new skills acquired: self closing mock ring and split ring.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Mobile Uploads Begin!

Happy Holidays to me because I lost my phone...then upgraded to an iPhone! The benefit is that I can now post mobile, so when I think "oh, I should really take a picture of his and put it up on my blog," I can! I'm super excited about it. The only drawback so far is that sometimes typos or upload problems occur because I'm typing with only my first digits, so please forgive any typos!

Its Snowing Lace!

My brother's girlfriend is a world class skier and when I heard she has a snowflake collection, I thought it would be a great opportunity to practice my tatting. I picked out a few patterns I thought I could handle and started tatting. I made one with size 10, but it wasn't nearly dainty enough, so these are the three I'm satisfied with. Unlike knitting, you can't undo the rings in tatting so I had to start and restart the big one a few times, but it turned out gorgeously! All three were starched and blocked. Let's see how she likes them!

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Pink Potholders

My brother (who has been featured in this blog before) has recently purchased and moved into his own house. While I was chatting with him about it, he mentioned he needed potholders. (Though it could just be that he was making cookies at the time.) I pulled out some cotton yarn I've had for a while and invented the pattern as I went, and I think it turned out quite well. I then had the rest of the yarn left, so I made a washcloth/potholder with the rest. I decided to take advantage of the self-striping to accentuate the pattern, worked from corner to corner. Both patterns available on Ravelry here. Made with Bernat Handicrafter cotton stripes in "pinky stripes" and size 7 Kollage Yarn square needles. I decided pink would be ok for my brother because I know he's manly enough to be pretty in pink.