Check it out

If you haven't already seen it, Noreen Crone-Findlay has an interview with Sherry Pence - LadyShuttleMaker on her blog - hankeringforyarn.

Sherry is one of the world's premier maker of Hand Dyed Threads and ceramic tatting shuttles.

Thanks Noreen for interviewing Sherry and posting it for all of us to read.

2nd attempt at Tally -Ho clunies

Hi all,

here is my 2nd attempt at a motif with clunies. Also #11 for the 25 motif challenge.

it looks similar to the other one I did, but with some changes. due to a mistake that I made on the first motif, and a comment by BJ that the mistake looked like a bunny hopping, I changed the stitch arrangement in the small rings to create ears and left out the picots on the tail ring and the large body ring. I will do this one more time, and change the stitch count on the tail ring so that it is not as large as the head, and I will make the ear picots larger.

Stay tuned to see how it turns out.

I think first, I will just make a chain of Clunies to practice getting them even, they are not as easy as they look.

The second pic is of the last batch of HDT thread that I had ordered. These came from Ladyshuttlemaker, Thanks Sherry. I bought them on Etsy.com

the first one is a size 80 DMC in a color way called Tuscany, the 2nd is 100% pure silk size 20 in Rainbow Sherbert colorway, 3rd is also 100% pure silk size 20 in Raspberry Mousse, and 4th is Picasso size 10 called Peach Pandora.

the silk feels really nice, I will need to come up with a special project for the silks.

I had to mend Father's vestment tonight, so I didn't get to start tatting until about 9:00 pm I finished just before 11:00pm as I was occasionally distracted watching the sporting Olympics. And it is now after midnight.

I still need more practice, or maybe a good critique of my clunies, as I know that there must be some way to make them more even. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

Happy Tatting

Ladytats