Teapots will be pouring out!

If you haven't heard about Martha Ess's new book Tea is For Tatting, then you had better hurry on over to her blog to read all about it.



I believe that it is selling as fast as hot tea after a Christmas swim!.

I was so lucky in being asked once again to test tat for her...always a pleasure.

As usual Martha has put soooh much effort into the designs for this book.

My first assignment was to test her Shamrock Teapot...now I wonder why she asked me to do this one...answers by post only written on a bar of plain chocolate!!

Oh my was this a lovely one to tat.
I chose a variegated lemon thread from Flora in size 20 and a rich shamrocky green.





Anybody who has the book if you contact me I can tell you how much thread I used.

Then would you believe she asked me to do another one..oh bliss. It was the Country garden teapot named so aptly by Tattycat.

Martha's sample was tatted in a beautiful array of colourful flowers. Now I always like exactly what Martha has done so I determined that I should do something different this time and so I chose a colour scheme to tone in with my newly updated guest bedroom.



The result was I think stunning.
The threads are varig lemons for the outline and Flora 20 shades, plus varig Altin Basak and the beautiful flower spray is in Yarnplayer's Roses (my first time using this). There is even a teeny little flower in the spout in my very own Raspberry Sorbet.



I was so pleased when Martha decided to tat another teapot in toning colour scheme in purples and put it on the cover of her book. the green outline makes it really look like a country garden...now why didn't i think of that!!

Again I can tell you how much thread to use if you contact me.

I wonder if this will be my favorite teapot in my book.

My tatting friends are so much in love with Martha's work that I had to pre-order 5 copies for them way before she finished it, when they had no idea what else was going to be on the book.

We just can't wait!!