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TIAS Day 3
Jane’s TIAS has started. This is mine up to day 3. It actually looked better but it curled a little and I tried to flatten it out which deformed the SCMR a little bit. I can live with it. I have no guesses as to what it might be. Last year she had us flying in an airplane and the year before crowing with a rooster, so this could be anything! If you haven’t started the TIAS it’s never to late to start. She is going to post day four tomorrow (January 19).
If you don’t want to participate you might still go over and check out all the different shuttles people are using on this. A lot of participants have taken this opportunity to show off some pretty nice looking shuttles. I haven’t shown mine – I chose to do this in Lizbeth Victorian Red #670 in size 20 using Clover shuttles in green and orange. The green doesn’t look too bad but the orange clashes badly. Hey, they were the two shuttles that I found that didn’t have any thread on them. Most of my other shuttles either have projects on them or little bits of thread that I would have to do something with before I could start. None I found had enough for this project – Jane said you will need two shuttles filled with thread.
Anyone remember this post? Trayna asked for that pattern awhile back and posted about it on her blog recently. As I have been working on updated and sharing some of my older patterns I thought this one would be the next one up. My previous post showed it with the arms joined at the picots and with beads but the pattern doesn’t reflect that. I don’t think it will be hard to figure out how that was done, but if you have questions please feel free to contact me. My contact information is on my profile page. The pattern is up on the sidebar.
Has anyone noticed that I missed Tatting Tea Tuesday? I’ve been working some different and very long hours this last week so was just too pooped to post. But it’s only late by a day – not too bad. Back to normal today, so I have a bit more enthusiasm.
“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” Bo Bennent
January is National Hot Tea Month
Did you know that January is National Hot Tea Month? This article is from 2009 but the link is still posted on the front page of TEAUSA.com. It has a few things that are nice to know, especially if you like tea π
Today for Tatting Tea Tuesday I’m drinking a cup of Strawberry Misaki from Teavana, a gift from Tabatha. It’s a blooming tea, which means it comes in a ball that when steeped in hot water blooms into a flower. Pretty cool! I was going to take a picture of my bloom (I’ve heard of this before and always wanted to know what the bloom looked like) but I forgot and drank the tea before I got the camera out. Mmmm, strawberry tea. It’s a very light flavored tea, but I like it.
Have you read Trayna’s blog post from Sunday? She was so nice as to tat one of my snowflakes π She had seen it in one of my posts and asked me for the pattern. She did a lovely job on it, too. It’s part of her 100 snowflake challenge – to make 100 snowflakes in a year(!). Knowing she was making snowflakes I sent her the pattern of another snowflake, which she was so sweet as to test tat for me (good thing that she did!). It is the snowflake I had decided would be my Christmas snowflake one year, which I posted about in December 2010.
This one.
If you like it and would like to give it a try, I’m adding the pattern to the sidebar. I’m touching up the pattern for the one that Trayna made and hope to add that pattern soon as well.
Don’t forget, Jane’s TIAS starts today!
Something New
for the New Year.
Okay, I made it at the end of December, but just barely!
I had two shuttles loaded with Lizbeth Blue Ice #163 in size 40 and had a thought, basically on a variation of one of my other patterns. “What if I tried this…” And this is what came about. As you can tell by the Clover shuttles beside it, the star is pretty small made in size 40. It didn’t take too long to make and looks good in that color, don’t you think? (I had a hard time photographing it. I tried it on a black background and it was way too bright so showed up fuzzy and stark white.)
And guess what?
I have it diagrammed already! It didn’t take too long to do that, either. I guess practice does make things easier. Check the sidebar, I’m going to be adding it there. How soon depends on if I have trouble or not π
I’m using the new blogger changes and still getting used to the way it looks. The one thing I definitely like is how it adds the pictures. It doesn’t add them all at the top anymore, where you have to move them down if you’ve started adding text. Some of the rest of the changes are still debatable on whether I like them or not, though I suppose that eventually I’ll get used to them.
Have you heard? Jane is having another TIAS (Tat It And See) starting on January 10. Check it out here. I did the one last year and it was a lot of fun. My piece from last year is actually hanging on the Christmas tree as an ornament – my grandsons thought it was pretty cool.
I started this Tatting Tea Tuesday with a cup of Zen green tea by TAZO, a gift from Tabatha. (Thanks, it’s very good!) I didn’t really tat yet but I did work on the diagram for the star – does that count? I do plan on getting a little tatting in today sometime, somewhere.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful start to the New Year.
“Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made new.”
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
It must be Wine Wednesday
Let it snow
Getting ready for Christmas