International Tatting day 2010

I hope that all my wonderful tatting and blogging buddies have a stupendous day and tat their hearts out.

International Tatting Day
1. Eat all the chocolate you desire.
2. Wear a little tatting, and tell everyone you meet about tatting
3. tat only for yourself, only want YOU want to tat, and
4. Remember (or Honor) the tatters who have gone before you and
contributed
so much to our art.

My tatting friends couldn't come round today, so we tattted our hearts out yesterday. We made LadyShuttlemaker's 'Hope' butterfly. I told them about the Holocaust Project and they were very interested.

I tatted another one using Just Daffodils and Flora number 229.....

.....I think it's beautiful.

They brought Chocolate and I gave then Chocolate Bunnies....and we ate hot Hot Cross Buns.

Do you think this will be enough to last me througt the day!!!!

Of Course Tadgh and Nollaig had to get in on the act.They wanted to wish Feargal and ***** and ********a Happy International tatting day

Talking of butterflies ....did you see the amazing one that Step tatted

Go have a look at her blog and read all about it.

It's very special to me as all those 4 ring clovers are tatted in my Flame Lantana....!

There are lots of things going on today in tatland........pop over Tatting Chic's blog for her blogoversary giveaway...you have till Easter Sunday for this one..... a great book is up for grabs!

Then go to Ambitatterous's blog to take part in her giveaway-no fooling.....you should still be just in time today is the deadline.......It's a smashing giveaway for some of her sister's gorgeous lotion and hand made soap....and there is even some Vanilla Sky HDT.

Her sister Igoya's etsy shop is  New Hands Soaps and Lotions.

I have a little secret about this one, I have had a little Amber Romance up my sleeve!

When IsDihara sent me my giveaway win of her beautiful ornament...there was something else lurking in the box...as we had done a trade....my thread for.......

.......I took a peak inside that pretty packaging.....

 

......and there it was, a gift set of Igoya's Amber Romance....

Inside that pretty packaging was....

mmmmmm! hand lotion and handmade soap...a really tricky thing to make.

IsDihara says

  Amber romance is a warm and mildly aphrodisiac scent with black cherry, creme Anglaise, sandalwood, sensual amber and Egyptian musk.

Oh my! my entire study is perfumed from the soap that I haven't opened yet

If you are in any doubt about the quality of this product let me tell you that is superb....you will want to win this or to pop over to her shop to see what she has in store.

What will I be doing today with my silky soft hands!?? I hope to be dyeing Daffodil Dell, my friends liked it so much that they are tatting with all the thread pictured at the bottom of my last post........I dye so little that I have none left for my next project.

I will be tatting Vinnie's Spring Doiley Number 2....I started last night and am half way round. I am using a shuttle and ball but will use two shuttles for my next one to save having to make SLT's and it will look much better. They are spoiling the shape of the curved chains.It looked difficult when I looked at the diagram but spurred on by what others have done...I calmed down and numbered the progression of the rings and chains and hey presto it is easy! reminds me of the progression in Iris Neibach's doileys...using the downward picot that will be joined to later.