New lanyard/chatelaine

 Tuesday, I realized that the lanyard I made for Tat Days two years ago was left at home. Since I am at my daughter’s and will not be home before Tat Days this year I had two choices: make a new one or go without. I don’t have a lot of tatting Supplies with me this time, but I did have a ball of crochet thread that my niece gave me for my birthday. I honestly had not expected to use it, but grabbed it in case I needed a size 10 for one of the classes that I signed up for because I don’t remember which classes I decided on for Tat Days. So many good choices.

I did have beads as well, but I don’t have a Tatsy shuttle with me. The beaded lanyard pattern by Patti Duff that I used two years ago, requires a Tatsy shuttle because of the beads But I have several dreamlit shuttles with me and I figured I could figure something out with that so I threaded the beads onto the ball of thread and ordered the lanyard hooks from Amazon and waited for them to arrive. Friday night I sat down to try to re-create the beaded lanyard with all of the beads on the ball thread instead of the core thread, but that was a disaster. Then I tried a couple of other approaches. After a couple of hours and looking at what I had tried to make and why it didn’t work, I decided to do it a lot like the trim that I’ve made for clothes.

I also remembered how one lady in particular had hooks for different implements on her Badge And decided that would be a good thing to make it more of a chatelaine so that I could use it all the time. I can use the hooks for scissors, a small hook, picot gauges, a Dental pick. or whatever else I need.. So I decided three lanyard hooks for each end. I decided to make the pattern easy peasy lemon squeeze: chains are 5B5. The rings are actually self closing mock rings with a shoelace trick before and after. the SCMR are 5+5B5-5.  When I got to the SCMRWhere I wanted to add the lanyard hooks I needed to take the core thread off the shuttle and thread it through the hook. I would not want to do this on a different kind of shuttle. May God bless the person who invented the dreamlit shuttle. It makes loading a shuttle much easier!  Instead of having the day, all to myself, my family was here. I think it’s about half done.

Angel

 I finally made my first angel. I did mess up on the number of picot joints that’s on the wrong section, but just made one less set on the body section and you can’t really tell.

I used Sanbest glitter thread and the angels can stand on its own.

The pattern I bought from Renulek on Etsy, it’s in a set called Angels of Luck.

Oh Christmas Trees

 I tatted of four of these 3-D Christmas trees by Veronika. I had bought this pattern on Etsy, but now the shop is closed. When looking at the pattern, I determined that this designer is located in Russia, and since Russia attacked the Ukraine, they are no longer on Etsy, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Which is a good reminder to go ahead and buy a pattern that you see if you really want it because you never know when it’s not gonna be available anymore. I continue to look every week or two to see if Tatting by the bay shop has been reopened, because I really really really want some of the patterns that Robin Perfetti had for sale there.

The trees came out very cute, the Tatting using size 20 is about an inch and a half tall. Expect to see more of these because I have so many more color combinations that I want to make.

Butterfly earrings

I’ll probably be the first to admit that I am a little picky about things. I must confess that I don’t like most of the tatted butterflies I see, I just don’t care for them but I really wanted some to wear to Dollywood so I thought about what it is, I don’t care about, the butterflies I’ve seen others tats call that I don’t like they’re really big loops that are in the handy hands catalogue, and I don’t like the hole in the middle of the butterfly or and I don’t want butterflies that don’t have Antanas, but I finally came up with  a pattern that I really like. It’s similar enough to other peoples patterns, but I haven’t seen one exactly like mine, even though it’s probably out there somewhere. I have made several pair, and I’ve sold a few too. I have even put it on the end of a put mark instead of a tassel. I might make some to go on paper clips for scrapbook embellishments

Onesie tat fun

 We went shopping for new clothes for my daughter’s babies, and when we got a set of onesies I informed her that I wanted to add tatted trim to some of them. I got a little carried away. I think this one was our favorite using the onion ring bookmark pattern by Robin Perfetti (I did change the stitch count) 

We loved how that looked so much that I wound up doing 3 more

Mishal then brought me a onesie that had a little bow on it that she didn’t care for. I removed the bow and started one pattern for the trim and pretty quickly decided “this is just ugly!” I searched the patterns I had on my phone and the Fandango bookmark by Jane Eborall was just what I needed. I did it all in white.

I came home with another onesie that I’m still looking for the perfect trim for. 

Onion ring bookmark

I've now created the of these bookmarks. The first one I sold for $25. The second one I gave to my niece. 

Tatted trim on baby shirts

 I’ve progressed to the point that tatting trim for the neck and sleeves for a 0-3 m shirt only takes 4 1/2 hours. 

The simple pattern for this is 

R 3-3-1–1-3-3 cl, rw

Ch: 3-3, rw

Repeat except first picot is now a join.

Using Lizbeth size twenty load six feet (2 yards) onto the shuttle

Sleeves need 22 rings. Neck needs 24.

Clover picot gauges used were 3 and 5.