Blessings to you today! It’s a beautiful day (though a bit windy!).
My computer has been fighting with me all day as I try to make this post *sigh* So I will make this short…
I hope you had a wonderful day! And wore a bit o’ green if you were so inclined.
Shamrock earrings for St. Patrick’s Day
I made these earrings to wear for the day. They are much longer than most of my earrings, but they are fun to wear! The pattern for these Simple Shamrocks is on My Patterns page. March isn’t over yet!
Wishing you a rainbow, For sunlight after showers, And miles and miles of Irish smiles, For golden happy hours. To shamrocks at your doorway, for luck and laughter too. And a host of friends that never end, Each day your whole life through.
Can you believe we are halfway through March already? The temperatures are mild, the grass is green, and some trees have leaf buds, ready to open and welcome spring.
I’ve done a little tatting in green also.
Clovers in metallic green
In my last thread order, I bought Liz Metallic #343 Christmas Green. I thought this was an opportunity to try it out. I’ll add a safety pin or something to these so they can be worn on St. Patrick’s Day this week. All you need to celebrate is just a touch of green, right?
Something I noticed using this green was the color came off on my hands. Maybe I didn’t notice the other colors of Liz Metallic I’ve used recently because they are a lot paler, the color not as deep. You can see the green left a trail of color on my finger.
Leaving a trail on my finger
A week or so ago I emptied a shuttle of Lizbeth Twirlz #404 Mermaid Lagoon. There aren’t that many Twirlz colors, so it wasn’t hard to know what the thread was for once. I was rushed when finishing these earrings as I wanted to wear them and we needed to leave. I got a bit sloppy sewing in the ends, which is why the tails show a bit.
Twirlz Clover earrings
I’m happy enough with the earrings that I’m wearing them anyway. There was just enough thread on the shuttle to get these two clovers done. How lucky is that?
I’ve been seeing a lot of Easter-themed tatting recently, mostly Easter eggs. The eggs I’ve seen are very inspiring, but I don’t know that I’ll get much done in that regard. Other than around buttons like I’ve done recently here and here. But it isn’t Easter for another couple of weeks, so, who knows?
Are you tatting anything for March or the Easter season?
One rainy day in the spring
A tatter made ring after ring
The thread 'round her finger
She found it to linger
A colorful mark from the string
There are so many things going on lately I’ve not really gotten into any projects even though I have several in mind. Instead I’ve been working on little things to give away (I hope) on International Tatting Day April 1st.
Tatting around buttons is easy and quick and people really like them when they see them, making them ideal as small give-a-ways. I’ve done a few in green because, hey, St. Patrick’s day is coming up – never hurts to have a little green on you.
Instead of sewing in the ends on these I’ve used them to sew on a small safety pin. I have a whole jar of safety pins of different sizes, thought this would be a good place to use the smaller ones.
I think I’ll move on to other colors now and maybe make a few into Easter eggs like I have the last couple of years; a few on paperclips and a few on safety pins.
I really need to keep a few of these handy all the time, not just for ITD. I’ve had several opportunities to give something like this away to an interested by-stander but didn’t have any with me that were finished. Okay, I’d already given the finished ones away… So I need to keep more on hand.
Still haven’t gotten my drawing program fixed. Now that I can’t I really want to work on some patterns. I hope I keep up the enthusiasm for when I have a working program again.
While I wait I might as well do another button.
“You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.”
