It surprised me to find that I had very little time to tat in Hawaii. We were busy, busy, busy. Even on the ship there were things to do. My tatting went with me wherever we went (well, okay, I didn't take it snorkeling!), but I did small things. In fact I did all the same small things. I even did the same small things in the same colors. *sigh* All these bookmarks (but the obvious one) are made from a modification of Jane Eborall's Butterfly Bookmark. Her butterfly has long beaded picots and beads on picot joins which make it nice and shiny (I like shiny!). Working with beads while standing in line or riding in the car or on a boat or walking up a trail is just not within my ability. I left out the beads and the long picots. I couldn't carry a picot gauge doing any of those things either.
The odd-one-out is a modification of xstchntat's Flower Bookmark. It's a modification because I didn't take the pattern with me and lost track of where I was. It's got that really big flower on the end because I miscounted. Ah, well, I like that one too.
The tails are mostly perle (pearl, purl??) tatted. There's just one that's a long Josephine spiral. I used xstchntat's tassel technique for those with tassels. The rainbow thread is size 30 Cebelià that my sister dyed for me. Everything else is Lizbeth 20. The length of the tail just depended on how much thread I had left on the shuttles.
There -- these are my haphazard vacation tattings!
