Happy Leprechaun Day!

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY

To ALL my Tatting Friends, some Irish some not so Irish but all very dear to me.

(I would have posted this much earlier but the internet connection went down mid composition!)

Last night my 5 year old grandson....aided and abetted by his mum.....

set a

Leprechaun Trap

Top view......

 ....and inside a trail of coins and trinkets has led to what looks like a crock of gold....and stuff!

(I have brightened these photos as it is very dark and mysterious inside, but hard to see anything!)

......I wonder if they will catch anything.....

 Here at Lep HQ. we were ready with THE SNAKE on watch

and lo and behold he caught an intruder and trapped it in his coils.

 Elsewhere another Leprechaun continues to sit peacefully in the rocking chair. When disturbed all he will say is....

"Hush!

I'm rocking my baby 

and babies don't keep!"

Tho' in his case he has been rocking that baby for years.....maybe only a moment in Leprechaun time.

Tatted Lep and baby were gifts from Carol Amich at the height of Lep Mania. They are just wonderful.

Rock on!

Elsewhere the house is in celebratory mode.

We all hope that Fergal the Roamer is having a great day.....please log into Lep HQ when you have a free moment.

Hello Silver Dawn!

OMG can it really be THREE MONTHS since I last blogged and promised you a new colourway!

So much has happened since then, 

Christmas celebrations... hope you all had a happy one.

New Year celebrations....hope you all will be happy and healthy,

Holiday in the sun.....more about that soon..ish.
Coming home to the worst storms we have ever had.water everywhere, the whole country is still soaking wet .

Looking after gorgeous grandchildren while their mum is away lecturing.

And of course Tatting and Dyeing, working on my TAT Master...and its hard to do it well.

Only one out of twelve completed to my satisfaction.

So back to Silver Dawn.

Imagine if you will very early in the morning just as the sky begins to brighten to pure silver...no hint of blue yet, gradually it becomes tinged with pink giving the sky a slight purplish tinge, which soon turns into a pink flush.

Above the horizon comes a hint of peach, then apricot tinting the pink.

Wow! then suddenly the sun begins to break through on the horizon an the whole scene becomes lit with gold.

Sounds idyllic doesn't it?

Well I am lucky enough to be able to see this happen with nothing to interrupt the  view of the horizon.....if I should get up that early that is......and it was one such morning that took my breath away.....and shouted out SILVER DAWN.....you must dye that!

But

While we were on holiday in UK I was witness to a sky that was even more like I imagined
my
Silver Dawn to be.

So here goes....this is my interpretation of this beautiful sky.

This is how it looks when tatted in my favourite patterns. It's very soft and gentle.

And

Tatted in my favourite pendant pattern.

If you like Silver Dawn you can find it here.