tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91508318444469883632024-03-14T04:07:30.307-06:00Tat's All She WroteMartyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.comBlogger367125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-48456844437200384662017-01-31T10:54:00.000-07:002017-02-02T12:22:26.247-07:00Still doing Snowflakes in Bangles<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I put "Radiance" in the bangle, I found it was a bit too small, so I added rings as I covered the bangle. That was awkward; the bangle kept getting in the way. The holder-rings are obvious and a little twisted. I applied a person-using-thread-that-frays-horribly-when-you-try-to-unpick-it standard: a man on a galloping horse will never notice, so I left 'em. As the thread is fine, instead of the lock chain I usually make for hanging loops, I wrapped a second thread around the bangle at the end and made a pearle-tatted loop. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are the latest, but I've got another on the shuttles. I think the stack is about a dozen high now. It's rather like being stuck in third gear! There are another 40 or 50 bangles in my supply box. Maybe I should save some for another year.</span></div>
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<br />Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-65002493734490886942017-01-20T09:49:00.000-07:002017-01-20T09:49:31.339-07:00Starting Over<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently, I took up a Facebook challenge offered by a friend. She will send something to the first five people to comment, sometime during the year -- however, these people have to agree to post, and do the same. So, I'll be getting something from her and will be sending something to three other people (only 3 brave people signed up with me -- either I know people with no inclination to share or nobody wants anything I make). I decided it would be a good time to get out my shuttles and threads and make new things to send. The problem I've been having is that <i>none</i> of my tatting supplies are where I thought they were. Since I haven't <i>finished</i> anything for about a year, I put stuff away safely, and have forgotten the location of "safely." Yes, they should be in the hobby cabinet, or the four dedicated drawers, or the fabric bin, or on the bookshelf, or in the boxes under the bed, or in my tatting tote. Some things are there, some have run off. I can't find my rubber needle pullers anywhere. Trying to sew in the ends and use a rubber band to pull on the needle results in a bent needle. *sigh*</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since it's cold and generally nasty, I'm working on Winter stuff. These are snowflakes inside wrist bangles. Both are designs by <a href="https://tatsaway.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jon Yusoff</a> from her snowflake pattern books. I did have to make the top rings on each point on the red one a bit larger to fit into my bangle. For the green one, I left off the decorative picots on the arching chains. It just worked better for me (it's a counting problem). The bangles are completely covered with tatting, using <a href="https://tatsaway.blogspot.com/2007/09/wrapping-plastic-ring-with-double.html" target="_blank">Jon's method for covering rings</a>.</span></div>
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Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-54023501449338817412015-02-18T17:00:00.001-07:002015-02-18T17:00:56.449-07:00Hanging by a Hook<span style="font-size: large;">I've been making earrings for my brother. No, he doesn't wear them, he's going to give them away. I don't mind making them for him because I like him and it gives me an excuse to play with little beads and finish something comparatively quickly (compared to a doily, for example). I made three different pair for him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first ones are a pair of butterflies. With as many butterflies as I've made over the years, this is the first time I've turned them into earrings. The third</span><span style="font-size: large;"> pair use gold thread and yellow beads and the covered-ring technique. The middle ones are from t</span><span style="font-size: large;">he Online Tatting Class which has been making earrings. I looked through the available patterns and found "<a href="http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2015/ninalibinearring2015v.pdf" target="_blank">Earrings '2015-V' © 2015 by Nina Libin</a>" on Georgia Seitz's website and thought those would be nice. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I'm certain they would be if I did them right or used the right stuff -- or something. The one I made was limp as a noodle and buckled. (I'd show you what it looked like, but it <i>somehow</i> got all cut up before I found the camera). I still really like the pattern, but decided I'd have to make it smaller if I was going to use a single strand of the <i>Oren Bayan</i> </span><span style="font-size: large;">metallic thread and size 15 seed beads I own. I used only one of the rings and just did two chains around it. The center earrings are the result. Since I was making them anyway, I decided to make some for my sisters. These are obviously green beads on variegated metallic thread:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are about the size of a US dime. I've got lots of other bead colors picked out to use. They are fairly quick to make -- once all the beads are threaded (it takes 58 beads for each earring). I can make a pair in a couple of hours and for me that <i>is</i> quick. Well, they are quick provided I don't lose the beading needle, the needle threader, the earwires, and above-all -- spill the beads all over myself.</span><br />
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Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-39165696589983070442015-01-28T11:53:00.000-07:002015-01-28T11:53:09.810-07:00Purposeful Tatting<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I am just starting to learn tatting and I have a question...Off subject I am afraid but..... I see all the pretty things you make and wonder what do you do with them? I understand doilies and jewelry but what about the other things?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I make lots of things just to see if I can. I make things so I have an excuse to buy more thread, extra shuttles, beads, buttons, findings, and do-dads. I make things to create beauty in the world, even if the world doesn't know it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots of my tatting ends up in a drawer in an antique dresser that belonged to my grandmother. That drawer is full of prototypes and series of pieces which were tweaked, redone, tweaked, done again, and finally ended up as final patterns. It has pieces which ARE my patterns until I can get them diagrammed or written down on paper (some of them probably never will). It also has all the stuff I've made that hasn't been given away -- yet. Some of it might never go anywhere but the drawer until after my time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of it gets given away as gifts. I'm not interested in selling my stuff because I make it for entertainment. I have a job and I don't want another one. Turning a hobby into a job is a good way to ruin its entertainment value for me. That said, I have, occasionally, sold some of my work -- when I could find someone willing to pay for my time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to laugh because you understand doilies and jewelry. I understand jewelry. However, even though I make them and enjoy them, I don't understand doilies. They are the queens of my tatting drawer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So -- what do the rest of you do with all that stuff you tat?</span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-72845792030151400212015-01-23T08:37:00.001-07:002015-01-28T11:54:02.485-07:00Time Keeps Slipping Away<span style="font-size: large;">Where does it go? I think time must be like escalator steps: there's an unused pile of it in someone's basement, and I would like to have it. It's not that I've not been tatting, and crocheting, and any number of other things; I have. Time to sit at the computer? Then there should be time to clean off my desk. No, no, don't have time for that, so I must not have time to sit at the computer. There. (Yes, that's just where the mess sits -- there.) Time to take pictures of tatting? Then there should be time to put away all my thread, string and yarn. As if. That's a little too drastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, I did enter all my stuff in the State Fair as well as the County Fair. (If you want to see what it was, look at the previous post.) <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Brag Moment</i></span>: I got blue ribbons (first place) on everything and the little crocheted animals were considered for sweepstakes. I got enough prize money to buy a nice meal -- or more thread. I got thread. I don't have anywhere to put more thread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since last August I've been stuck on making little crocheted animals. I made some with size 20 thread, some with size 10 and most with size 3. I'm still making them. I gave away about a dozen and a half for Christmas, I think there are about that many still left in the drawer, and I'm spending recent evenings making legs for a purple and white zebra. My tatting has been reduced to mere minutes -- just enough time to take part in this year's TIAS (thanks, Jane!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do have some tatting to show. My dad needed a gift for my aunt for their annual Christmas party. In addition to some really useful stretchy fit-anything lids we got at the fair, I wrapped up a necklace and two pair of earrings. My aunt doesn't have pierced ears, and didn't know I could make tatted ones with clip-on findings. She was glad to get them and liked 'em too. I used white size 20 Lizbeth thread and white-and-red-striped beads for the necklace and one pair of earrings. The other pair of earrings uses large white-and-red striped beads and smaller white-green-red striped beads. The necklace pattern is Patti Duff's <a href="https://sbspokane.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/beaded-lanyard.pdf" target="_blank">lanyard</a>; except that I did it with SCMR so I didn't have to load all the beads on the thread (I've misplaced both of my Tatsy shuttles!). The earrings I just made up as I went along.</span><br />
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Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-76989801405379747042014-08-18T12:25:00.002-06:002014-08-18T12:28:12.749-06:00County Fair<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The County Fair was different this year -- like it was only half there. Fewer entries, fewer vendors, fewer animals...you get the idea. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The database with previous exhibitor names and addresses was either lost or ignored, so nobody got a </span><span style="font-size: large;">postcard reminder of the fair dates and entry times. The Fair was also</span><span style="font-size: large;"> held earlier than usual, by about a week. Apparently, the people in charge of the exhibitor areas (not animal exhibits) are not the people who have been in charge for the last </span><span style="font-size: large;">fifteen years. Those people decided to retire. They apparently either didn't train the new bunch, or the newbies decided they had better ideas. (Nah, I don't think they were really better ideas.) There were no comment cards this year, either. I miss those! It's always good to know where someone thinks your work needs improvement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I entered ten items and received three second place red ribbons:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and seven first place blue ribbons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The little crocheted stuffed animals I made from the book </span><span style="font-size: large;">Edward's Menagerie (#edwardsmenagerie) also got a Judge's Choice ribbon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, a bit of lace from "Tatting With Visual Patterns" by Mary Konior. I made a mistake, so there's a picot missing. I was going to put this on a pillowcase. After making the mistake I decided it was a good thing. This is size 20 thread. I've remade the edging in size 40, which is much better for the purpose. I finished it and joined it together last night. Now I have to wash it. No matter how many times I wash my hands when I use white thread it just looks grubby to me. Once it's washed and dried I'll sew it on the pillowcase. This is a first for me. I don't actually know why anyone would want to put lace on a pillowcase. However, it's one of the categories for entry in the State Fair and one I've not entered before. This piece might be re-purposed into a headband for a flower girl, because "wedding item" is one of the categories in the County Fair. If I use the picots as attachment points and put little beads there, nobody is going to know there's one picot missing -- there will be a bead after all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For those of you on galloping horses, okay, those who don't have the inclination to stare at every picot on this bit, here's the error:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-49367943390965341442014-06-27T14:42:00.000-06:002014-06-27T14:42:24.508-06:00Bugs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJJY4f4oJAmQAwyJhml6saESpXSVYZ-T2qS30LMK0L02Fthu8W-1rRhI-lY0yhMAhaT-1gpupUYKAW-MuFuortbGKWgqmMF3_gL6riK_YGfXc0KXZ3zcf6nhiE1Dx7GZZLz_Rq2CH3SL8/s1600/Bugs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJJY4f4oJAmQAwyJhml6saESpXSVYZ-T2qS30LMK0L02Fthu8W-1rRhI-lY0yhMAhaT-1gpupUYKAW-MuFuortbGKWgqmMF3_gL6riK_YGfXc0KXZ3zcf6nhiE1Dx7GZZLz_Rq2CH3SL8/s1600/Bugs.jpg" height="308" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Yes. Bugs. I made some. Jeanie Schekel, the chair of the Ogden Bonneville Tatters group, held a class on <a href="http://bengelblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/in-middle-of-night-cant-sleep-so-show.html?q=butterfly" target="_blank">Riet Surtel-Smeulders Daisy Picot Butterfly</a> last month. I didn't finish in class, so my attempt at hiding the wire was not as easy as it probably should have been. There's wire in the wings so they can be shaped and hold the shape without stiffening. I did not choose the threads wisely either -- really should have selected three plain colors to get a proper contrast. Still, I do like these and I like this pattern. The top butterfly is size 20 and the bottom is size 40. Now I need to try it with size 80.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The other bug is a dragonfly designed by Leesa Kramer, the Bonneville Tatters chair this year. It only takes about two yards of size 20 thread, four dagger beads and two big eye beads. I want to make more of these! Of course, before I make more, I should sew in the ends of this one. </span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-11152644031321047722014-05-13T08:55:00.000-06:002014-05-13T08:55:28.181-06:00Moving on!<span style="font-size: large;">Renulek's Spring Doily has been all over the 'net -- here included. I started on March 18th and finished tatting (YES!) on May 1. It took me until the 5th to get all the ends sewn in, and last Thursday I blocked the piece on my large board. So, it took me less than 3 months, but not much less.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It amazes me every time I finish something like this. It is a very simple pattern, rings and chains in ordinary configurations. It's how those ordinary configurations are organized that gives the pattern it's beauty, and once it's all put together, it looks complex. There are other renditions that look even more complex than this one, simply because of the color choices. It's so interesting how each piece worked looks just slightly different from the others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's another difference in each piece -- blocking. Not everyone likes to spread things out as much as I do!</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Mine is done is size 20 thread, so it's large. As completed it measured 18 inches across, but, after blocking it is almost 20 inches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one is destined for the Fair this year. I don't know what the judges will make of it -- but I like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I still have to make a list of colors (I'll add that in later just in case anyone is interested), but I do like my rainbow:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-13255914625521239882014-04-23T08:55:00.000-06:002014-04-23T09:01:06.860-06:00Missing Fox?<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Have you lost Fox at Tat-ology? Yesterday all I could get was a 404 error. Her web host apparently was not nice and a BAD company, so she's moved to blogspot. If you follow Fox (and who doesn't?) you'll need to update your bookmarks or clickable lists or whatever you use to:</i></span><br />
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Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-6464977915237475662014-04-02T14:25:00.000-06:002014-04-02T14:25:01.700-06:00TIP for International Tatting Day<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSKsvBTXJ0RncYmmL_2PQgzMirvbt3kNXOSO4fbZR16eLpE9iWbyrwFWB3_alss9tqHWo-KtrgZTL6783U9HtRHyfsMh58gnbiAsb-eiJQbITGHhjMq_AQarDKW8vNyuLMA8vmLyN2vI/s1600/Renulek9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLSKsvBTXJ0RncYmmL_2PQgzMirvbt3kNXOSO4fbZR16eLpE9iWbyrwFWB3_alss9tqHWo-KtrgZTL6783U9HtRHyfsMh58gnbiAsb-eiJQbITGHhjMq_AQarDKW8vNyuLMA8vmLyN2vI/s1600/Renulek9.jpg" height="320" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">In the waiting room at the clinic in an almost comfortable chair, I did my tatting in public. Too bad International Tatting Day, April Fool's Day, and my least favorite day of the year all fell on the same day this year. Of course April Fool's day and International Tatting Day are fixed in time, but my annual physical floats around. There's nothing dignified about a visit to the doctor, and my tatting covers more than the gown and sheet! Why is it doctors talk to you when you're starkers? They should get all that poking around business out of the way then let you get dressed for the discussion. Oh, I'm getting carried away. I did TIP. I finished the rest of round 8 of my Renulek Spring doily and started on round 9. The ends for round 8 still need to be hidden and the back is looking generally thready -- lots of ends need to be clipped when this is finished!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-69914303960425256382014-03-30T19:12:00.000-06:002014-03-30T19:12:51.529-06:00Cascade<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQowXAx1tgOU2XQeAV3lAHcE1uGtpqDoCS4MiDaXhUkGSsaoEPnnT4UrV1D5qU0KnRT2rMLLECQRtJiDSotow9yrSlYL2wI3CJLsJ835LTBsxWjSfkYIXSvSjGR40CBxgxLysD_Dpx7L4/s1600/Cascade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQowXAx1tgOU2XQeAV3lAHcE1uGtpqDoCS4MiDaXhUkGSsaoEPnnT4UrV1D5qU0KnRT2rMLLECQRtJiDSotow9yrSlYL2wI3CJLsJ835LTBsxWjSfkYIXSvSjGR40CBxgxLysD_Dpx7L4/s1600/Cascade.jpg" height="305" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Sometime in February I started working on "Cascade" from Blomqvist and Persson's <i>Tatting Patterns and Designs</i>. It has been finished for almost a month, but <i>really</i> needed blocking. I could tell it was going to be a torture block -- the doily needed to go on the rack. Here it is all stretched, and I do mean <i>stretched</i>. If you don't look close, it looks pretty good. A critical eye would notice the stressed bits, and those places where somebody couldn't seem to count. Oh, well. It actually is a very pretty pattern, but I have to wonder how it would look with fewer picots and larger rings right there in the center.</span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-62292225317574350132014-03-28T09:02:00.001-06:002014-03-28T09:02:42.814-06:00Tag -- That's Me!<span style="font-size: large;">Last month at our regular meeting of Bonneville Tatters, we made name tags. I made one with my name and one with my real name (no, it's not Bizzilwix - it's also not a big secret). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mine is made from white Lizbeth size 20 thread. What? Oh, you've noticed that it doesn't look very white. No, it's not from dirty hands. My sister dyed that thread for me and I like using it (check out my <a href="http://marty-tatsall.blogspot.com/2014/02/tat-it-and-see-finished.html" target="_blank">pram</a>, <a href="http://marty-tatsall.blogspot.com/2011/02/heart-wannabes.html" target="_blank">heart</a>, and <a href="http://marty-tatsall.blogspot.com/2009/05/one-ringy-dingy-two-ringy-dingy.html" target="_blank">decoration</a>) — rainbows are happy things. Besides, it will match everything. Yes, it will, even patterns — everything! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've got a plastic thingy with a magnet attachment that is supposed to go on the back of it, but I don't know the proper way to put it there yet. We are supposed to learn that next month. <i>*sigh*</i> I won't be at the meeting next month, so I will need remedial help in May, I suppose. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was such fun putting these little beads in the middle of split rings. I used <a href="http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/AddBeadCentreSR.pdf" target="_blank">Jane Eborall</a>'s method and it worked slicker than ...ummm... slick things. I tried doing it another way, using the thread from the second half of the split ring, but kept getting a weird lump and loose looking thread on top of the tatting, so I had to give that up. I know it works (because other people used it) but it had me baffled. However, Jane's method was so successful, I now want to put beads in the center of lots more split rings. I need to find a pattern with lots of them and put beads in — just because I can. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">☺</span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-76126910724616819892014-03-24T17:17:00.000-06:002014-03-24T17:17:00.166-06:00Round 7<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01YvHcJ80HJ7ha2tt-hTG2V5DBUbw8pKJNpj-mUmxcjXFwCUuAT3a5XnPI13JFl3x9fIGCPPB1ZInNsZazKSK6jkJdw0KAmAuBv6ogpA3Ilg7-5ebpTq-AiikxDbUyHzrg_VqtY8wlNI/s1600/RenulekDoily7th.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01YvHcJ80HJ7ha2tt-hTG2V5DBUbw8pKJNpj-mUmxcjXFwCUuAT3a5XnPI13JFl3x9fIGCPPB1ZInNsZazKSK6jkJdw0KAmAuBv6ogpA3Ilg7-5ebpTq-AiikxDbUyHzrg_VqtY8wlNI/s1600/RenulekDoily7th.jpg" height="320" width="265" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Still working on Renulek's Spring doily. I'm out to round 7, but I left off the decorative picots in round 8. Can't say why, except laziness, probably. The next round will be like the green row, but in red and pink. I've got it worked out so it will end in the dark and light purple. Unless I discover a goofy bit when I get around to blocking it, I'll probably keep it to enter in the Fair this year. They need color, <span style="color: #cc0000;">Color</span>, <span style="color: #cc0000;">C</span></span><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">O</span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">L</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">O</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">R</span>!</span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-62747924836532356842014-03-20T09:23:00.000-06:002014-03-20T12:45:23.279-06:00On the Bandwagon<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjve86ZyEFX0Dw1NpQkiAWYc4wEBBHyS6xAhksQYsUxNakFq_-IJjLZtLtcZOo2A1LHkfSdNf11StNjT1HR7PrJEJnn7-4k364MVf8cBPGxa64PE2u-KQaaQiITd3ftRMpJSFL_Dl0qbY0/s1600/RenulekDoily.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjve86ZyEFX0Dw1NpQkiAWYc4wEBBHyS6xAhksQYsUxNakFq_-IJjLZtLtcZOo2A1LHkfSdNf11StNjT1HR7PrJEJnn7-4k364MVf8cBPGxa64PE2u-KQaaQiITd3ftRMpJSFL_Dl0qbY0/s1600/RenulekDoily.jpg" height="298" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">All over the 'net -- in the blogs, in the tatting group on Facebook, at InTatters -- people are doing <a href="http://renulek.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Renulek</a>'s latest doily: Spring Napkin 2014. I have to play, too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started Tuesday night, so I don't have much completed yet -- I'm just at the beginning of round 3. I was going to work it in size 40, but couldn't find all the colors I wanted to use in my stash. My stash did contain all the colors I wanted in Lizbeth 20 (except the red, that's Manuela because I couldn't find <i>any</i> Lizbeth red in my stash -- gotta go shopping!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the first center I did, I worked the joins so the color blips didn't show, but I didn't like it. It was too tight and the chains didn't have enough curve. Having the little pink color blips looks better to me and so does the chain shape in this one. I'll have to block the other one and add it to this post so they can be compared. That was its other problem -- it really <i>needs</i> blocking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In case it's not obvious to everyone, this is going to be a rainbow-- "roygbiv" (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), but with the addition of the pink, and I don't really have blue and indigo -- I have blue and darker blue. I don't know how it will look when it's completed, but it will certainly be cheerful! All those loose threads are woven-in ends or tatted-over tails. I never cut them off until after the piece is blocked. There's less chance of something coming un-woven or completely undone that way. Sometimes the hairy ends get in the way, but if they're snipped to about three inches long, they're not too bad to deal with. </span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-35726982872097521092014-03-15T17:31:00.003-06:002014-03-17T08:28:38.179-06:00Thread Ends<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Very rarely do I have just the exact amount of thread on my shuttles that I need for a project. I like to wind my shuttles continuous thread method and full. That could be wasteful, you know. All those thread ends have to end up somewhere. Some I just toss away (that's the wasteful part). Some I scatter all over the house (not intentionally -- it just happens -- more waste). Some I make into bugs and flowers and hearts (hooray! useful!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What gets made depends on how much thread is left on the shuttle. Lots of thread gets turned into big butterflies or hearts, medium sized left-overs get turned into small butterflies or dragonflies, small bits of thread end up as caterpillars, spiders, flies or flowers. Right now I have a box of bugs and flowers and a tin of hearts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> What do you do with <i>your</i> thread ends?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My sailboat is rather bright -- it must be running two spinnakers instead of real sails (due to be dumped in the drink). Keeping that mast painted turquoise must keep the crew busy full time, ya think? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's all Lizbeth size 20 thread, the sails are Rainbow Splash and the rest of the boat is ...um... not. I can't remember the name of the thread color but it was the remains of a ball of thread I got when Lizbeth first came out. Wow! That thread has improved. This ball wanted to split, and twist and it had a little knot in </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">one</i><span style="font-size: large;"> ply that was miserable to get pulled through the ring. I was determined </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">not</i><span style="font-size: large;"> to cut the thread as I was working on the mast by then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not just 2014 TIAS, but 2013 TIAS, as well:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yup, I finally found my pram and the thread that matched the wheels at the same time and finished it, too. As you can see, I like to use bright colors for the TIAS! This is Lizbeth size 20 that my sister dyed in rainbow colors. It looks a lot different than the Rainbow Splash, doesn't it? The wheels and handle are a Manuela size 20 that I thought was red, but it certainly looks more hot pink than red!</span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-42826646242138110692014-02-14T12:06:00.002-07:002014-02-14T12:06:25.657-07:00Happy Valentine's Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It's Valentine's Day -- here ya go:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Got all of my threads in a row,</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> By tanglin' up string.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look, look, quick -- it might get away! Well maybe not, but I think they are the big Blob and a little Blob and the big one now has a skateboard! Can't you just see them oozing out of a movie theatre's projection loft? Hmmmm. No, that's probably not right either. Jane has me totally stumped with this year's TIAS. That's not unusual, though -- she has me stumped every year (like the year I was making a blue kiwi, and it turned out looking just like everyone else's goat).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other thing I've been working on is "Cascade" from Blomqvist and Persson's <i>Tatting Patterns and Designs. </i>Someone in the Tatting group on Facebook asked about where it starts and in which direction it flows, so I thought I'd see if I could figure it out. What I figured out is that one of the first six chains is actually a ring. What I haven't figured out is how to count. There's a chain in there with too many rings, and the piece that runs out of the picture is a chain I have to retrotat because I forgot to join it. The thread is Lizbeth size 20 -- it happened to be sitting right there in my tatting bag. It's the same thread that happened to be sitting there when Jane said we needed a contrasting color for the skateboard (er...she didn't actually say skateboard).</span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-70067268903595669132014-02-01T18:03:00.001-07:002014-02-05T08:34:58.496-07:00Unsettling<span style="font-size: large;">As in not being able to settle down and figure out what I really want to tat. I've been doing Jane's Tat-it-and-See, but it only keeps me entertained for little bits of time. Other than that, I've been doing a bit of this and a bit more of this and some of that. Lots of little pieces and lots of hearts and butterflies using left over thread have gone into my heart tin and butterfly box. I haven't been interested in blocking things either. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd show some of what I've been doing, but Blogger doesn't want to let me post any pictures. It was okay earlier this month, but now it has decided to not play nice. How good is your imagination?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Imagine this: Four snowflakes in bangles, some hearts like the ones at the top of the picture in <a href="http://marty-tatsall.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-goats.html" target="_blank">this post</a>; an angel I've never done before, and some really beady earrings. Oh, and a Rainbow Splash TIAS piece. *sigh* </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNRMPYRiofgTrLlBXlgq1B7ERNyRXhabEi-wzFcZf2BKzP3mgH-QHUV4LbBm0S3dKpbMdBUGQCQC5kg2Xy5d9E69pnR_upePTOj0A8MC5HCp7ktdv-GWJTamd29DCbx7ZLcZf5Qk_cjVA/s1600/Beaded+Tatting+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNRMPYRiofgTrLlBXlgq1B7ERNyRXhabEi-wzFcZf2BKzP3mgH-QHUV4LbBm0S3dKpbMdBUGQCQC5kg2Xy5d9E69pnR_upePTOj0A8MC5HCp7ktdv-GWJTamd29DCbx7ZLcZf5Qk_cjVA/s1600/Beaded+Tatting+cover.jpg" height="200" width="153" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">Marilee Rockley (<a href="http://yarnplayertats.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Yarnplayer</a>) has a new tatted <a href="http://yarnplayertats.blogspot.com/2014/01/digital-is-available-printed-book.html" target="_blank">jewelry book</a> finished. (Hooray, hooray!) It's available as an e-book and in print. I couldn't wait for the printed version. These "Time & Again" earrings are the first things I've finished from the book. Of course, they're more interesting in the book -- Marilee designed them in two colors. I couldn't resist the silver and clear beads though. The way the large beads are put into the center of the ring is the easiest, cleverest way I've ever used. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are made with Oren Bayan silver thread, clear size 11 seed beads and two sizes of faceted glass beads. The earwires are nylon instead of wire. I think the clear hooks look good with the silver. I can actually see covering these with lots more beads -- but it would change the delicate look. These already have beads on the joining picots that weren't in the design -- really I'm almost as bad as <a href="http://www.tat-ology.com/" target="_blank">Fox</a> when it comes to beads! </span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-82493280004731200752014-01-07T22:13:00.000-07:002014-01-16T16:59:48.223-07:00Trees and some more trees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Trees from Jane Eborall's <a href="http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/Celebration.htm" target="_blank">patterns</a>: Christmas Tree on a Button and Christmas Tree - No Button. The two green trees and the white one are all size 20 with nice big shirt buttons and decorative top buttons (I like the star buttons, but had a hard time finding any.) The metallic trees are all made from Oren Bayan gold thread. The red buttonless tree suffers from inattention to the pattern, but it still looks okay. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The size 20 trees will probably join a few others as gifts for friends next year. The smaller metallic trees are for my dad's little Christmas tree. It's only about 2.5 feet tall so it needs little ornaments. This is part of what I was doing during December. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The rest of December's tatting is done and gone with no photos! I made three pair of earrings for my bosses, one pair of earrings for my great aunt; two pair of earrings for my sister's co-workers and one pendant for my sister's co-worker who doesn't have pierced ears. I didn't get a picture of any of those -- they were all too quickly wrapped and gone. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I also made a bunch of little hearts and butterflies to add to my give-away box. One of these days I should dump some on the scanner and show off what a nice collection I have for the next fair.</span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150831844446988363.post-34393024170461315502013-12-23T16:55:00.001-07:002013-12-23T16:55:27.076-07:00Holiday Greetings!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">We did our inside decorations today. We always wait until after my niece's birthday before we decorate -- one celebration at a time! This year we have a new fake tree. It's tall and slim so we put it in front of the fireplace so we didn't have to move any furniture. I love that! The chair in which I usually tat (the large overstuffed rocker you can see in the picture) is one of the pieces that gets moved and I get all discombobulated. We have a lot of ornaments that are sentimental and lots from trips (we buy fridge magnets and ornaments when we travel!). The rest are tatted. The earliest ones are from sometime in the late 1970s. They are really plain little gray stars. I don't think one is visible in the picture. In fact, I think there might be only one still around. Don't ask whatever possessed me to make gray stars. Maybe I thought they looked silver. If I was going to make them now I'd use metallic thread and make them silver. The thread choices were much more limited in "the olden days."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Tomorrow we are going to tackle the outside lights. We are not supposed to have snow, and the temperature is predicted to be 21ºF (-6ºC). That's better than the 9ºF (-12ºC) it was last week, so I hope we don't freeze getting it done.</span>Martyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660864900839865295noreply@blogger.com3