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Diane’s Double Dare
p.s I have posted the pattern on the Pattern Page if you’re interested.
Center Bead Success
I started this one thinking I had all the right colored beads but when I went to get the seed beads the colors didn’t match the thread at all! So I’m using clear ones instead but I think they’ll work fine.
We’ll see if this goes anywhere.
It’s hard to believe that it’s almost September, but I look around and see that the sunflowers are in full bloom, some even past their prime. This is a small patch of garden variety sunflowers that I drive by every day (wild sunflowers are much smaller and branch out a lot). I had wanted to get a picture of these earlier but never thought about it when I had time and my camera. I finally had both time and camera, but you can see that some of the heads are already finished blooming. Time is getting away from me!
Things have not gotten done this week like I had hoped. I was planning to have the barefoot sandal pattern done by today but it’s not. There are several things that I haven’t figured out how to diagram yet, and it’s taking more time than I estimated it would. And I’ve had a hard time making myself sit down and do it!
Tatting Tea Tuesday
I’m drinking green tea today, iced as the weather has decided to be hot again. Not has hot as we had it earlier this summer but still in the 90’s. My tatting was done earlier today when I got together with my sister and my mother for a visit and all of us were working on projects. My mom and sister were knitting some pretty cool looking scarves and I was working on my hair piece. It was a very pleasant way to spend the morning. We’re hoping to do it more often.
Trial and Error
Another pair of Barefoot Sandles
Graduation Cross Bookmark
Graduation Cross Bookmark  based on an old pattern
Something that I have been working on at home is writing up some of my patterns. Â This is another cross bookmark I made up a few years ago in the normal way that I come up with most patterns: I needed something for – you guessed it – a graduation gift.
I made this one with Lizbeth #115 “Springtime” size 20. It measures 3 inches long by 2 inches wide. Â The center has one split ring then climbs out with a false picot and another split ring, the rest is just rings and chains. Â If someone couldn’t do split rings it would be easy enough to make the center as a separate piece then do the outside. Â The basics of this cross I know is one of those patterns that most of us stumble to on our own, but I haven’t seen a center done quite like this so I’ve added it to the pattern page.
(It will be up later)
I’m hoping to have something more to show next week. Â So far I’ve had to un-do, re-tat, cut off, and start over several times. I’ve got the idea in my head, just having a little trouble translating it to thread.
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”Â
Shel Silverstein
Travel Time Tatting
It was a long drive out there but well worth the trip. I enjoyed a glass of iced tea today while looking through the pictures instead of tatting on this Tatting Tea Tuesday. Ah, well, maybe tomorrow 🙂
“And after many days on the close-fed plain and bluffs of earth back we came to an interesting change. We saw a whole day’s march ahead on the plain what looked a big castle, or small mountain. But on nearing it, we saw that it was a big tower of sand-stone far detached like an island, from the bluffs back, which had now all become of that kind of rock, high and perpendicular and strangely worn into many fantastic shapes. The detached mass first seen is called the Chimney Rock a striking, landmark in this prairie sea. The upper, perhaps 100 feet of naked rock and the lower 50 a spreading pedestal, well grassed over.”
From The Autobiography of John Ball
Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832