Tatting Tea Tuesday is here again. I haven’t done a lot of tatting this week and one of the things I did make didn’t get it’s picture taken – oops.
Saturday my husband and I went to a wedding in Oklahoma. I didn’t think I’d get to go because of work. But, big surprise, we didn’t have to work so we headed south. As it’s about a three hour drive I decided to tat the wedding couple a cross bookmark, something I didn’t have time to make before. (And of the three choices of colors I had with me, I picked the wrong one. I had their wedding colors with me, I just didn’t know that was it! I’ll bet they’ll like it anyway.) I didn’t take a picture of it because I didn’t think about it. I had the camera, just not the thought.
Something I have been working on this week is a challenge from Sharon on her Design Challenge blog.
This came out looking like I imagined it would, but it is kind of a pain to make, with a lot of reversing work. On the second, two color one I tried the method for making chains of NOT reversing but also not flipping the stitch. It works (I did it, I did it!) and it’s not quite so persnickety a pattern this way. Of course, you have to pay attention and remember NOT to flip the stitch…
I like the look of this and I’m counting this as #23 on my 25 Motif Challenge. And though I don’t use beads much, I’m thinking of trying this with beads. This could be my snowflake for the Christmas season. I try to come up with a new one every year for friends and family. I may just have come up with it a little early this year.
very pretty! I like what you did! 🙂
Thanks, TattingChic!
I love your snowflake. Can't help smiling to myself when you wrote about NOT flipping… quite along the essence when I post the entry
The Un-learning in my blog.
I really like the snowflake – very pretty. A great ornament for family and friends! Is the Design Challenge something you are doing after participating in the Tatting Design lessons by Sharon? You do nice work!
LOL! Jon. Oh, yes, we have to learn to do it when WE want to, not when the thread wants to. This is hard.
Thanks, Cindy. No, I've never done Sharon's tatting design lessons. She has this on another blog and it looked like fun, so I thought I'd try it. Now I have to try and write down the patter *ugh!* The hard part of designing!