Are you ready?

Are you done guessing yet?

Here is what I did with my snowflakes. I used them to drape clear glass ornaments. They reminded me of a beaded lampshade from the Victorian era

I did 12 of them, of course, I only took pictures of one, and almost didn't get that, as I got them wrapped and ready to give away as I finished them. Each of them was done in a different thread color and different color beads so that no 2 of them were alike. I couldn't post them before as my children received some of them. Although, my one daughter hasn't received hers yet, as I won't see her until Easter.

the project that I am working on tonight is below.

I bought this brown slouch hat from www.duluthtrading.com for my trip to South Carolina. It came with the green embroidery on the right side of the brim. I couldn't let it just be plain, so am adding tatted flowers to the embroidery. I will show you the finished project as soon as it is done.

life has it's ways

Hi All, you have no doubt gotten tired of waiting for me to update this blog.

Life has it's ways of getting in the way of things you want to do versus the things you would like to do.

I have decided that if I am to have a blog, I will need to discipline to occasionally post.

I have some tatting and some crochet to show you so that you won't think that I just while away my time twiddling my thumbs. but that will need to wait for tonight or tomorrow. Today is Saturday and the housework is calling. Also there are some comments that need to be moderated. I apologize for the delay.

Most of kids decided as a New Year's resolution to do a Biggest Loser Challenge. we are half way through, and though I decided to try to lose 10% (15lbs) of my weight, I have only been able to lose 6lbs. That may not seem like much, but for someone who suffers from hypothryoidism, that is big.

Just a bit of news, we were notified this week that Grandbaby #9 is on the way for this fall, so we will be busy, a wedding and a new baby all in a couple of months time.

I am also in the planning and getting ready stages for a trip to South Carolina leaving here on the 12th of March. I have never been east of Milwaukee Wisconsin, nor have I flown before so this will be a very interesting time. I am going with a neighbor who has a daughter in the area. I will tell you all about when I get back.

It is now Lent. I decided to do the following: no eating between meals, and only clear liquids such as water or tea. No reading other than the newspaper and religious books. both of these will be hard. I read like a vacuum cleaner, I just suck up books, but that gets in the way of housework or other things I should be doing. Also the not eating between meals - the worst part for me will be during meal prep times. I have a tendency to grab a handful of nuts or something "to tide me over" until the meal is on the table. all the extra calories are really not needed, just a crutch. So, maybe this will help me get a bit more weight off.

I am also trying to walk at work. I have a route figured out that takes about 300 steps so if I do that 4 or 5 time 2 or 3 times a week that will increase my activity level over sitting in my office chair all the time. That should help my metabolism I hope.

Alright, you got me, just to whet your appitite, I will post a pic of part of the tatting that I did for the Christmas presents. Can you gues what I did with it?

Stay tuned for further updates.

Gotta go wash the dishes and do another load of laundry.

#8 !

Here is a picture of grandbaby #8.
Matthew William
19.5"
8lbs, 8oz
born 11/10/08
All are doing well.

I have not posted for a whiles because all tatting that I am doing is for Christmas presents, and the recipients might check this blog, so no pics for a while.

I have also been busy with the new grandchildren.
Izabell Rose was baptized this past Sunday. and now
Matthew has been born.
I am at my daughter's babysitting the 2 older children for a couple of days until she comes home and I will stay for at least 1 day. Then back again this weekend to help while her husband finishes getting the deer he shot last weekend into the freezer.

Happy Tatting to all.
ladytats

more, more, gimme more

My mailman brought me some goodies today. Clyde the mad tatter (see his link to the right) was talking about how he feels about HDT and I certainly understand his feelings. I have a problem resisting HDT myself. I really need to tat my little fingers off to use it all up.


I found another seller on etsy.com offering HDT thread - http://www.kreativekitties.etsy.com/



#1 is size 10 in a rainbow colorway.
#2 is I think size 20
#3 is also size 20
#4 is I think a size 30


I really like the colors and the thread feels nice in my fingers. The scan doesn't do the colors justice. the background is actually a sheet of white printer paper, not gray or blue. so the colors are a bit skewed

I am looking forward to using this thread.

The weather here lately has been absolutely soggy. rain, rain, rain, we got the soybeans combined, but the corn is just sitting there not getting dry enough to combine and it is getting later and later in the season, we sould be half done or better by now. A freeze won't help, we need some dry weather to get the crops in the bin. The ground is so wet, the fields are just mud, some places the corn is standing in water. I am sure that God has his reasons, maybe it will be very dry next year and the only good thing is all the moisture that is being stored in the ground this fall, or maybe not.

happy tatting
ladytats

A Bunch of Rosaries and 25 motif challenge

I have been off my blog for the past 10 days.

during that time I have tatted 5 rosaries. Ombre purple, lavender, pink, green, multi.

I started last weekend at the Marian Eucharistic Congress. I was able to tat almost 2 per day. until the last day, when I decided to make a multi colored one. That one is pictured here.

I used the shoelace trick between the split rings and changed colors on the Our Father rings. Other wise it is my basic Rosary pattern.

This rosary took me all week to sandwich in between other things.

I was tatting the rosaries during the talks, and many people came up to me to ask what I was doing. I gave several small quick demonstrations during breaks. All the rosaries except this one were given away on the spot. This one has a designated recipient as well.

I am adding the 5 rosaries to my 25 motif challenge as 1 item, since I don't have pictures to show of all of them.

I am hoping that this week will be more productive for tatting as I need to get the Christmas Presents done.

too much life and not enough time, so off to bed for me.
Happy Tatting
Ladytats

Finished!

Hi All,

The 4th T.I.A.S is finished and here is my version. I am also counting this as #18 of my 25 Motif Challenge.

And to top it off, I was right. Sherry has announced that it is a lighthouse bookmark. A couple of weeks ago near the beginning of this process I emailed a guess to Ladyshuttlemaker that what we were making was a lighthouse as the 2 clues she gave were - Knotical and Illuminating.

She didn't let anyone know if they had the right anwer until now.

my lighthouse is a bit lopsided as it is not blocked yet. I was in too much of a hurry to get it posted to spend the time to wet it and wait for it to dry, or to steam it and wait for it to cool. I only use the steam method if it needs just a bit of blocking, the lighthouse bookmark above needs a lot of blocking so I will get it wet, roll it in a towel to remove any excess moisture, then lay it out on my blocking board, pin it into shape and let it dry.

my blocking board is a piece of 1" thick styrofoam isulating board covered with an old piece of white cotton sheeting.

This serial tatting puzzle was fun. It is the first one that I have done, but I will be waiting for the next one to show up. Jane Eborall has done the other 3, I wonder who will do the next?

Friday I am taking off work to go to the next largest town for a conference for Directors of Religious Ed for church and then attend at least some if not all of the Marian Eucharistic Congress. What a blessing to be able to attend these events. Because of getting ready for this trip and being gone most of the weekend, I don't expect to get much of any tatting done until next week. I will take a project with me, the last time I attended a Marina Eucharistic Congress, I did some tatting during some of the speechs. I can focus on what they are saying much easier if my fingers are busy, and tatting rosaries is so easy.

Happy Tatting

Ladytats

step 11

Here is step 11.



I tatted all day today at the Uff-da day celebration in Rutland, a small town about 30 miles from me.
This is the 4th year that I have been there. I met another tatter!! Yippee!
we talked abit and I will be emailing her in a day or so as I get things squared away.

Tired and not feeling well - I have had a sore throat most of the day, so this is the end of this post.

Happy tatting
Ladytats