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Easter Eggs, TIAS, Edgings, Motifs, Hearts, Doily, Earrings, Snowflakes, Christmas trees, Crosses and Bracelet - I 've tried the new Blogger which required installing Google Chrome. I'm not impressed. If anything looks off, its probably as a result of the change. Let ...

The Sky Is Breaking - Spotted over Perth, this morning. Is this what Tony Abbott is warning us about? An analogy for the dire consequences of allowing our Prime Minister to cont...

Third Round! - I finished the last circle of the third round during my lunch break at work. It’s such a bright orange! I’m going to mix it up with a bit of yellow in th...

Five Dainty Edgings - This is the first of five edgings by Norma Benporath from Five Dainty Designs For Tatting from the Trove published on 3rd January 1935. While we think of ea...

Mask On A Stick - It worked. That's right, I did not destroy the mask, not at all. The mask was just flexible enough for me to further shape it yesterday morning. I get the ...

Anne Orr Edging Adaptations - This is just an original Anne Orr edging that I have re-written This is my first adaptation And this is my second adaptation

Marty's shuttle - Today I have put Day 8 of the TIAS 2012 on this blog and the other one too! This is another of my wins in a giveaway that Marty held recently to give this...

My Memories Suite V3 FREE software Giveaway - A few months back I hosted a giveaway for a copy of this software. That was Version 2. Now I am hosting a giveaway for Version 3! This is a very exciting g...

- Kim Millar's Lover's Knot pattern from the Wayback Machine! I've been meaning to tat this heart since I printed it out in July of 2002. It could use some tw...

Purple tatted set - Back of necklaceThe earrings are my *Carnival* pattern, and the necklace is a design that I made up as I went. People often ask if I'm going to write it ...

Black, white, colour - This is a tatted edging for a scarf for my daughter. It should have been ready for Christmas...it wasn't! I mostly tatted this on Thursdays at work, when...

TIAS 2012 Continues - Sorry for the delay. I've been meaning to post more regularly lately, but that hasn't happened, obviously. While I'm not complaining, I've have quite a few...

Quilts - My hiatus from tatting has included reading lots of books including some about quilts. I get quilts as something that uses up scraps and usable pieces of fab...

Heart's Desire #3 - I just had to try one more time! This time I joined the small free ring to the edge ring closest to it. Again, I should have blocked it, but even without ...

Tutorial: how to clean the bobbin area - of your sewing machine. Note: my machine is a Janome Memory Craft 6500. A local FaceBook group, Geng Mesin Jahit was discussing how often to service the se...

Checking in-and a tatting class coming up - Hi everyone! I've passed two parts of the CPA exam so far and have taken a third (won't get my score until 2/3/12). I take the forth and final part Febru...

- First of all I finally made the ornament from a kit that I won in a raffle at a Hector Tatting Event from a few years ago. Debbie Arnold is the one that do...

Earrings for my pupils - Dear tatting friends It's really a long time since I have last tatted. Actually I'm teaching german in a private school in 8 different classes, so I have...

City Sidewalks – Peterborough Festival of Trees December 2011 - I took part in the City wide Fundraising event this year by creating another Christmas Tree covered with Tatting and Wood carving. The design and producti...

Merry Christmas 2011 - Hi everyone! To all my tatting friends out there I have been absent way too long. BUT Life happens and sometimes you just need to take a break. I am fine, ...

All the trees are turning Fall Colors. . .SOOOOO - AH HA! THE LEAVES are not the only thing turning copper this Fall. I was feeling drab and bedraggled after my sojourn in the hinterlands of New Mexico; “...

DIVINE MISINFORMATION - Is it possible that Obama's removal of Gates from Defense has anything to do with todays news the closing of our Borders? While this is not exactly punny, ...

- ♥ *XOXO*

#6 motif - "Pot pourri"hat with a tatted snowflake.

Hey everybody! - Check out the Lep blog. Oisin and I have visitors!

Dad R.I.P. - Born James William on the 18th January 1928 in Shrewsbury, he was bought up with his brothers Ed. Dick, John and sister Nora. On leaving School He started w...

Design Challenge 5 - So many people were having fun with the last challenge that it was left up for a long time. Here's another one along the same lines. Just like roses are a ...

Lizbeth thread and some grumbles on postal fees - My parcel from handy hands finally arrived last week but was unfortunately stuck at my post office (yet again) for a couple of days - blasted another USD$1...