Isn’t this little teacup with the candle inside cute? I saw it and just had to get it for a Tatting Tea Tuesday post. It’s from a candle shop in Silver Dollar City, Missouri. They pour a lot of candles there, in the most marvelous scents! This one happens to be Bayberry. They make the candles right there in the shop; you can watch and talk to them about what they are doing. They also have a dipping station where you can dip your own candles. You actually buy white candles in any of several different sizes (4 inch, 6 inch, 8 inch) then you dip them in different colour waxes for any color combination your heart desires. I had a picture of the ones that I dipped but it seems to be lost in cyber space somewhere. It will have to be shared on a different post. The lovely little doily the cup is sitting on was designed by the wonderful AnneB (Anne Bruvold), she who designed the Minor Norwegian Flying Dragons. I tatted it a while ago and thought I had shared it here on my blog but I haven’t found it, so I must be mistaken. I know it was done in size 30 thread but I don’t remember in what brand or color, and measures about four inches across. I’m sharing it now because a friend of mine asked if I would make her one. The pattern for it can be found here. If you are interested in more of Anne’s patterns, you can find them at Nuperelle.net (there be dragons!) Some are in English and some are in Norwegian.
This morning I got up and took the pictures of the teacup and doily, several of the dipped candles, then worked on adding the suggestions of the test tatters to Heart’s Honor bookmark. I didn’t get any tea drank or any tatting done during all that. I did tat a whole ring and chain at my in-laws’ house (not of this doily, another project) and then, well, a mess. I was being soooooo careful with my tube of size 10/0 seed beads when I spilled the entire tube of them all over the floor. So instead of tatting I picked up seed beads. The tube says it has 10g of beads and I must have spilled 9.99% of them – there were only about a dozen lonely beads left in the tube when I picked it up. Most have been recovered but quite a few went into my purse, which will be emptied and de-beaded at home.
I didn’t get the pattern for Heart’s Honor up yet – I had hoped it would be today – but it should be in a few days.
“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.” Russell Baker
I just love your teacup with the candle – how cute! And the doily is pretty – I'll have to try that one. I LOVE the color you've chosen for that.
Ugh on the beads! I have done that numerous times, and end up finding beads for days. What a distraction 🙁
Teacup candles are SO charming! And your bayberry will surely inspire some seasonal tatting.
Of course, your Anne Bruvold doily makes a perfect accompaniment. It is so graceful and especially lovely in blue!
No Tatting Tea Tuesday post for me today, I have been under the weather with some nameless strength-sapping summer virus. Luckily, the worst effects are starting to lessen and I hope to be back to my normal self in a day or two. I drank lots of tea these past few days, enough to launch an ark made of tea bisuits, hee hee!
Your doiley is beautiful, thank you for sharing the link to the pattern…it doesn't look too hard, I'll have to try it. Google translator came close to making sense…needs to be trained better on tatting terms though I think!
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Somehow I managed to post two comments on yours, one was supposed to be on the doiley that God's Kid posted about…and that comment made very little sense when applied to your doiley so I apologize and have removed the odd post 🙂 I think your doiley is very lovely, also flower like (but not in the same way), nicely done, and I very much want to try this pattern though 🙂
That's a beautiful little doily! 🙂