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I completed the challenge and have challenged my self to tat another 25 animals, tho' this may take more than another year as there are so many other things I want to tat.Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.comBlogger369125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-87218632165274509662017-05-24T18:53:00.001+01:002017-05-24T18:53:37.429+01:00Ice Drops are Little Wonders!<div style="text-align: center;">
Yup they sure are!</div>
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This is the second variation by Lace-Lovin' Librarian.</div>
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A pretty white snowflake with a clear Turquoise Glass Glob.</div>
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My Hand Dyed Thread in a very slightly variegated pale turquoise blue/green.</div>
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With sparkly white colour lined beads.</div>
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The Glass Pebble is a gorgeous Turquoise blue green with an AB coating.</div>
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It look so pretty in real life.</div>
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I have tatted these two in the same colours as the previous variation to let the pattern stand out rather than being influenced by new colours.</div>
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Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-27745848114907413712017-05-22T19:06:00.000+01:002017-05-22T19:06:33.705+01:00Ice Drops getting to be stunning!<div style="text-align: center;">
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This was the first that I chose to make.</div>
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She gave them names but they are just the colours that she used…I think.</div>
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Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-31031658405962526692017-05-21T12:50:00.000+01:002017-05-21T12:50:35.022+01:00Ice Drop a little bit fancier!<div style="text-align: center;">
Beginning to get the hang of these cute little thingies.</div>
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Lets try a few frilly picots.</div>
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5 Graduated Picots, my hand dyed thread and a clear Diamante Disc.</div>
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Beautiful.</div>
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Even prettier, I think.</div>
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Getting better every day.</div>
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Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-81689319847664713972017-05-20T17:01:00.000+01:002017-05-20T17:01:32.239+01:00More little Ice Drops!<div style="text-align: center;">
Oh yeah! Here I go.</div>
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Still on the basic simple ones today.</div>
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Here they are:-</div>
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This Glass Glob is transparent. Yesterdays had an AB type coating.</div>
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This one is tatted in my hand dyed thread Coral Reef,</div>
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I dyed a big batch of it last year as it's one of my favourites.</div>
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Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-81655829796885683552017-05-19T14:40:00.000+01:002017-05-19T14:40:12.865+01:00Blogging Again<div style="text-align: center;">
Oh dear, I can see that another whole year has gone by since I wrote a blog post.</div>
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A whole lot of water has gone under the bridge.</div>
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A new hip.</div>
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A whole lot of tatting has been done</div>
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Plus so many other crafts.</div>
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The question is where do I start</div>
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A wise friend</div>
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START FROM NOW!</div>
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So here goes.</div>
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I am addicted to Lace-Lovin Librarian's</div>
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She very kindly sent me her patterns and Tutorial.</div>
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Searching for Glass Globs/Gems/Pebbles where I live is almost impossible.</div>
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A few come into charity shops.</div>
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I have tried Candle shops,Flower shops,Aquarium shops to no avail.</div>
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So I have to use what I already have until my internet order arrives.</div>
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My First Ice Drop</div>
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The tutorial was great.</div>
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Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-23352632017440431262016-03-16T17:28:00.001+00:002016-04-07T12:33:53.009+01:00<h2>
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Wowee! can you believe it!!</div>
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Feargal left for his Grand Tour on March 22nd 2010.</div>
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That's almost 6 years of travelling!!</div>
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I am announcing his return on St Patricks Day 2016 as it seems like a good day for celebration.</div>
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A big box arrived in the post. It had come from New York in rather a roundabout way stopping for a short respite in Stratford On Avon where I believe Feargal was oh sooh! tired that he flatly refused point blank to hear anything about Shakespeare! and begged why am I here? I just want to go home.....aw!</div>
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Inside the box were many goodies and associated </div>
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Leprechaun Grand Tour Souveniers and more... just stuff!</div>
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Isn't that a cute little sleeping box? See the lovely piece of Rainbow Bright tattingto make him feel at home?</div>
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Well I opened it very carefully and what should I find inside but Feargal and Miss Scarlett fast asleep.</div>
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So I let them sleep it off, opening the box to take a peek every now and then.</div>
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They slept right through Christmas,</div>
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.......right through the New Year,</div>
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We went away on a winter holiday and they were still asleep when we got back tho' Feargal did manage a GO AWAY, CAN'T YOU SEE WE ARE TIRED!!</div>
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I guess they were jet lagged! double jet lagged!</div>
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And so to today.....when I peeped into the box up jumped a wide awake Feargal.</div>
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Next thing Feargal was on his way out of the box.....</div>
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Miss Scarlett gracefully stepped out and brought out with her a new edition to the Lep family, A little baby Lep sleeping in half a walnut shell. Haven't found out it's name yet??</div>
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Well it just so happened that I was just sorting through a bag of St Patrick's Day hair ribbons that I have bought for all The Brownies in my Brownie Guide Pack.....</div>
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and didn't Feargal spot them in an instant.....and dived in head first.</div>
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What was he looking for.......a pot of gold.....fat chance Feargal!!</div>
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Then over he rolled and with a look of ecstasy on his face muttered under his breath...<br />
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"Oh it's so soft after years in that hard travelling box!</div>
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Come on in Miss Scarlett, it's divine."<br />
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So she did.</div>
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But wait....what's that sitting on Feargal's shoulder???<br />
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Mmmm! Methinks a stowaway!</div>
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More soon I hope as Feargal tells his story.</div>
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How many places did he go to?</div>
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<br />Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-76067741244975971552015-03-17T16:59:00.000+00:002015-03-17T16:59:24.096+00:00Another St Patrick's Day!<div style="text-align: center;">
Time goes so quickly nowadays.I cant believe that it's the middle of March already.</div>
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Time to wish all my friends</div>
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I wonder how Fergal is celebrating the day, here at Lep HQ we would love to hear from him.</div>
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Thomas Brown is wearing his gear again and flying the flag.</div>
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I am having a ME day</div>
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Have watched the Dublin Parade on TV.</div>
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It must be one of the best in the world.</div>
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If you get a chance to watch the highlights, maybe on line.....do!</div>
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Have tatted some bookmarks I wrote for a class I was giving at my Lace Guild, nothing new there but they do look lovely.</div>
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Tatting a Pineapple Doiley designed by Camelia Crapo Lambert</div>
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Then it's out to my Dye Studio......yes I am dyeing again!</div>
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Haven't dyed since last summer.</div>
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Mixing up some <span style="color: lime;">GREEN</span> dye,</div>
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one of my all time favourite colourways.</div>
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A new colourway to be announced soon.</div>
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<br />Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-85854821016791587962014-03-17T17:38:00.000+00:002014-03-17T17:38:40.885+00:00Happy Leprechaun Day!<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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To ALL my Tatting Friends, some Irish some not so Irish but all very dear to me.</div>
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(I would have posted this much earlier but the internet connection went down mid composition!) </div>
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Last night my 5 year old grandson....aided and abetted by his mum.....</div>
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set a</div>
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....and inside a trail of coins and trinkets has led to what looks like a crock of gold....and stuff!</div>
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(I have brightened these photos as it is very dark and mysterious inside, but hard to see anything!) </div>
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and lo and behold he caught an intruder and trapped it in his coils.</div>
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Elsewhere another Leprechaun continues to sit peacefully in the rocking chair. When disturbed all he will say is....</div>
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Tho' in his case he has been rocking that baby for years.....maybe only a moment in Leprechaun time.</div>
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Tatted Lep and baby were gifts from Carol Amich at the height of Lep Mania. They are just wonderful.</div>
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Elsewhere the house is in celebratory mode.</div>
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We all hope that Fergal the Roamer is having a great day.....please log into Lep HQ when you have a free moment.</div>
Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-8968384171931261932014-03-05T16:01:00.001+00:002014-03-05T16:01:34.889+00:00Hello Silver Dawn!<div style="text-align: center;">
OMG can it really be THREE MONTHS since I last blogged and promised you a new colourway!</div>
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So much has happened since then, </div>
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Christmas celebrations... hope you all had a happy one.</div>
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New Year celebrations....hope you all will be happy and healthy,</div>
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Holiday in the sun.....more about that soon..ish.<br />
Coming home to the worst storms we have ever had.water everywhere, the whole country is still soaking wet .</div>
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Looking after gorgeous grandchildren while their mum is away lecturing.</div>
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And of course Tatting and Dyeing, working on my TAT Master...and its hard to do it well.</div>
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Only one out of twelve completed to my satisfaction.</div>
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So back to Silver Dawn.</div>
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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.</div>
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Above the horizon comes a hint of peach, then apricot tinting the pink.</div>
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Wow! then suddenly the sun begins to break through on the horizon an the whole scene becomes lit with gold.</div>
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Sounds idyllic doesn't it?</div>
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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!</div>
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While we were on holiday in UK I was witness to a sky that was even more like I imagined<br />
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Silver Dawn to be.<br />
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So here goes....this is my interpretation of this beautiful sky.<br />
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This is how it looks when tatted in my favourite patterns. It's very soft and gentle.<br />
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Tatted in my favourite pendant pattern.<br />
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If you like Silver Dawn you can find it <a href="http://shop3.melanopa.com/index.php?_a=category&cat_id=35">here</a>.</div>
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So far so good</div>
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I LOVE all of my new pendants.</div>
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well obviously!</div>
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I have both of Marilee's Jewellery Books...</div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_683156404"></span>Boutique Tatting,<span id="goog_683156405"></span></a></div>
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Having uumm...hd and aaaa...hd as to which I should do first....<br />
I settled on Carnival Earrings from Tatted jewelry...listed as a beginners project.<br />
so here goes....<br />
Next pendant in RAINBOW BRIGHT My all time Favourite of My Threads.<br />
The Pendant <br />
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....and the earrings....<br />
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This is one of those WOW moments...<br />
I love the way the colours just follow one after the other,just the way that I intended them to.<br />
The red Wonder Bead is gorgeous too....<br />
....The Set <br />
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The pendant need a red Wonder bead in the center, I think.<br />
Lovely to wear. <br />
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Remember the pendant that I made in Sweet shop....in the very first of these pendant posts?<br />
Well that colourway got the earring treatment too.<br />
You actually already saw me wearing them on my Birthday Canal Boat trip.<br />
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Finally my third favourite thread is Berry Burst...so here goes....<br />
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....which also strangely enough goes really well with what I wear....<br />
the silver beads against the dark thread simple glow against my skin..... <br />
.....and with the earrings is just gorgeous....<br />
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I used Swarovski Bicones and top drilled Swarovski drops and gosh do they sparkle!<br />
This was the very last of my Berry Burst so you can guess what I am dyeing now!<br />
See you soon with a new colourway I have to show you.</div>
Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-79812545815787404332013-11-07T20:06:00.000+00:002013-11-13T23:09:10.801+00:00Even MORE!<div style="text-align: center;">
This pattern was so addictive......I have given them to all my relatives and friends and still can't stop!!<br />
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Some colourways are working better than others .</div>
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Just personal preference and what I have to wear them with.<br />
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Everyone I gave them too had their own different preferences,which was cool.</div>
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Next up was Gina's Tequila Sunrise.....</div>
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This time I used silver lined transparent beads and they really made the colours zing! </div>
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So that's what I have used on all the colourways since then.</div>
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Next to tat were the ChocoRaspberry family( made to make your mouth water)!</div>
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We already saw Raspberry Ripple with Vanilla in the previous post. </div>
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This looked really lovely with another 'random' T-Shirt from my ever growing collection!</div>
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You can now see how the beads add zing. </div>
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next up was my Vanilla Sky with 3 Cut Crystal beads.....</div>
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More of these coming your way soon.....until you are sick of them....I just couldn't stop trying different colours.</div>
Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-71282822666941072002013-10-20T19:56:00.001+01:002013-11-06T19:59:49.964+00:00Tatskool Tats!<div style="text-align: center;">
Yup, you finally get to see some tatting!</div>
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Way back in the summer I fell in love....</div>
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with a new design.</div>
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It came to me via the Online Tatting Class, and is</div>
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by <i>Petra Tornack-Zimmermann</i>.</div>
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She has recently published her book </div>
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<b>Happy Occhi.</b></div>
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A book of square motifs.</div>
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The design that I fell in love with is <b>Sonnenschein</b>....it has certainly been my sunshine.</div>
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Thank you so much Petra, your book is on my <u>to get list</u>.</div>
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The very last one that I have tatted is in my favourite colour of all time...</div>
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Rainbow Bright of course.</div>
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But lets go back to the beginning.....</div>
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.....the very first one that I tried....</div>
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...led me to shout...</div>
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Because it had such eye catching negative space.</div>
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The second one had the beads but it just didn't have the WOW factor.</div>
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SweetShop was my first choice...oh how I love this thread.</div>
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Sorry didn't quite get the colours right, better in photo below. </div>
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Oh! SweetShop why do I love you so much.....</div>
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....for instance, I randomly (as if) selected a T Shirt and woweee...look at this...</div>
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isn't that amazing?<br />
More pendants to show you soon.</div>
Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-31328193992034914392013-10-19T12:37:00.000+01:002013-10-19T12:47:15.903+01:00Starting from NOW!<div style="text-align: center;">
A while ago Miranda was trying to tempt me back into blogging. I told her that I have done so much and have so much to say that I don't know where to start.</div>
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I guess she was right.....but I may work backwards a bit too!</div>
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In July I finally mailed my TAT Artisan Package......</div>
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.....it had only taken me 7 years....</div>
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Oh my goodness,I couldn't believe that I started it in 2005,</div>
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where did the time go to.</div>
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I remember chatting with Gina about it...only seems like yesterday.</div>
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I hope I made her proud of me.<br />
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It was a kick up the backside from my Lace Guild to get it finished and produce another certificate for them, that finally did it.</div>
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It was a LOT of hard work to get my pieces looking as good as I wanted....you know that I am that cursed thing..(I blame being a Virgo!)....</div>
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......cant help it, I just had to do the best that I could possibly do.<br />
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Yeah! Passed with flying colours.<br />
Just received my TAT MASTER pack and.....<br />
Oh My! this is a whole new set of challenges. Tatting places that I have never ventured into!! <br />
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Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-72704059299905480502013-10-12T17:59:00.000+01:002013-10-12T18:15:42.533+01:0070 ROCKS!!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
Yup! It's Official!</div>
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Being 70 really does rock (if you let it).</div>
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I must admit that I approached being 70 with some apprehension, after all every one knows that that's REALLY old!</div>
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Hubby was none too happy last year when he found out that he can't hire a car anymore!</div>
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With the wisdom afforded to me by my grandson(see my first post on being BACK) I decide to enjoy being 69 ......but now that I AM 70 then I will enjoy being 70 as I will never be 70 again!</div>
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My funniest Birthday present was from my cousin's wife to whom I had told grandson's tale.</div>
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I heard a true story while I was away.........</div>
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I remember when I was at school and we discovered the lines on our hands and their meaning, and I seemed to have a short lifeline! I always had a suspicion that I might die young.</div>
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Well now at 70 I don't have to worry about dying young anymore....that's one good thing(about the only one I can think of!).</div>
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So I determined to hit 70 running! in the hope that it might not catch up with me.</div>
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Partying with as many family members that I could visit in 12 days....preferably those who were older than me to make me feel a young sprig.</div>
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So after my exploits on a barge in Lancashire, we went to Cheshire and then down to Norfolk to see my cousin who was 70 a whole two weeks before me.</div>
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His wife as well as giving me the coaster had made me a beautiful hand stitched card.</div>
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They also gave me a copy of our family parties...every Christmas at Grandma's.</div>
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That's <span style="color: red;">me </span>and my cousin leaning against the piano. We reckon that we were 11.</div>
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Grandma is on the right. She must only have been 68 and yet she was always sooooh old.</div>
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Back to the ferry in Wales all the way across England, We looked for a nice place to stop half way and hubby suggested Stratford. Oh YES I thought.</div>
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I was asked by Kathy in a comment (yes I Loooooove your comments, they make it all worthwhile) if it was a coincidence that I visited Jane on her Birthday. The answer is no, not at all.</div>
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When I emailed Jane to suggest we met as we were both going to be 70.</div>
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She replied (seems that both her brain cells were out for recharging! (sorry Jane couldn't resist that)) and her BC3 was concentrating on what it does best......that she had forgotten that it was my Birthday, had even forgotten that it was her Birthday and had certainly forgotten that she was going to be 70!!!</div>
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Hubby couldn't understand why I would want another Birthday Cake so long after my Birthday!</div>
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This one a real girly cake befitting my age!</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">We met at 10am at the American Memorial and spent a delightful 3 hours in Jane's company.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I couldn't take my eyes off her stunning brooch on her jacket. </span></span></h2>
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First stop was Shakespeare's Birthplace.....</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can you see the market across the road......enough to make your mouth water......</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cupcakes are THE IN thing.....used to be called Butterfly Buns in my youth.....my mum made them and they were so yummy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stratford is Jane....</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jane is Stratford!!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">What she CAN"T tell you about Stratford can be written on the back of a Bus Ticket!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Born and bred there, her family history goes back hundreds of years....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I bet they even knew Yorrick!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The buildings in Stratford are STUNNING..</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wow! Look at that....a first for me A Medlar Tree (<i>Mespilus germanica</i>) has been cultivated since Roman times......I wonder if I can grow one as a Bonsai!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the new Swan Theatre....opened in 1986.....in we go.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jane is a fount of knowledge on things that we would have missed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can tell you that for someone with only 2 brain cells(+ BC3 which is reserved for tatting designing!) <b>She sure knows some stuff!</b> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The old Art Deco features that were retained from the old building which was destroyed by fire in 1926.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pheewee! time for a coffee in the Riverside Cafe. It was Sunday in late September, the temperature was 20 Deg C,the sky was clear blue and the sun was shining, it could have been July.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">mmmm! now I remember why I stopped blogging. It takes such a lot of time, hope that it's worth it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sitting peacefully.....notice I didn't say quietly Jane takes out her tatting...of course she does....I would have too.</span></span></div>
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But wait....what can we see emerging from those fingers of gold! It's a secret...promised I wouldn't tell!</div>
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But look what else can we see....</div>
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Stunning earrings....matching the brooch she gave me..... </div>
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<b>Yup.It's been a LONG,LONG Time!!</b></div>
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since I.....</div>
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IN THE FLESH!!!!</div>
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So last weekend...a whole week ago now, I finally got to meet one of my tatting heroes!!</div>
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(I know she will protest about that).</div>
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it was just what I needed.....a poke in the ribs to get back blogging again.</div>
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It's not as if I have been doing anything different, been tatting up a storm, working on my TAT Artisan, been teaching, been dyeing, been traveling and been getting older!</div>
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OK get to the point Tatskool !</div>
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Who did I meet.....well if you read her<a href="mailto:www.janeeborall@blogspot.com"> blog</a> you will already know!</div>
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It's Jane Eborall...yeah!</div>
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Jane was just about the first person that I ever communicated with when I discovered that tatting was alive and well and on the internet!</div>
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I remember that she replied and asked me to send a photo so that she could see who she was talking to! </div>
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In the last 10 years at least, emails have zoomed backwards and forwards between us, often many times in an evening when we were both on line sitting back relaxing....she will say relaxing what's that??? You see I know her pretty well.</div>
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But we had never met even tho' she is the nearest REALLY FAMOUS tatter to me!</div>
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The last couple of weeks have been really special as I had a big birthday to celebrate....</div>
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My little grandson is 4 and a pillar of wisdom.</div>
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earlier in the year he started pre school at a super new Steiner School.</div>
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His mum was walking behind him as he chatted to another boy...</div>
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'How old are you' he said,</div>
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'3 was the reply...but I'm nearly 4!'</div>
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to which grandson said..</div>
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'you must enjoy being 3,you'll never be 3 again!!'</div>
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I'll never be ****** again.</div>
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Thus I set forth to party for all I was worth, to eat drink and be merry in a 5* Hotel in the Lake District (canapes in the music room and all). Steer a canal boat down the Leeds to Liverpool Canal....<br />
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.......birthday cake in the open air...the breeze blew out my candles!</div>
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....walk to Frederick's Ice Cream Palour to choose from 58 flavours and endless shapes of cone,and eat the biggest Ice Cream I ever saw.</div>
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Especially good was getting together with a cousin who is just two weeks older that me...got to drink his champagne and eat his cake! and with two great friends whose birthdays are just after mine.</div>
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Jane was one of the latter so I finally pinned her down and she met me.</div>
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Saturday evening in a pub in Stratford on Avon we were talking tatting...yeah!</div>
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I had asked her to bring some tatting and she produced a bag which she tipped put onto the table of the most stunning brooches in a multitude of colours.and asked me to choose one. Hardest decision ever.....and I seemed to be drawn to one of my favourite colours...blue.<br />
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Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-55079532875267795452012-02-24T19:25:00.001+00:002012-02-24T19:26:16.017+00:00Gina's Tequila Sunrise<div style="text-align: center;">I was very touched by the response to my post renaming Flame Lantana for Gina.<br />
Something that I always intended to do. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you so much, I think she would like it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was interesting how many of you had never seen a Tequila Sunrise up close....me included</div><div style="text-align: center;">so I looked it up.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a link to a<a href="http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink2340.html"> recipe</a>,</div><div style="text-align: center;">The photo is gorgeous</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqtFimkEfkUY-66ZJrZXSPMYbMLjYkHnbZ_-aP4qgqeNilFTU33RN1NCoEPXr-hfPc3nOMXgC-gvA_JZnGu4g21YLG2ef5-ex3PwHTepSocdmxRLmzTI1TI283GjyAURyXDV0WOWKWweH/s1600/2340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdqtFimkEfkUY-66ZJrZXSPMYbMLjYkHnbZ_-aP4qgqeNilFTU33RN1NCoEPXr-hfPc3nOMXgC-gvA_JZnGu4g21YLG2ef5-ex3PwHTepSocdmxRLmzTI1TI283GjyAURyXDV0WOWKWweH/s1600/2340.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">It's normally made in a tall glass but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_Sunrise_%28cocktail%29">Wikepedia</a> shows it in a highball glass, </div><div style="text-align: center;">photo by Evan Swigart.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72FwHUwLwZX6cf3Kag6ObYaF4lQcizKS8CuaC4VjwpdH4aiIWltGKkTIEGALsBof4TVGsC3PdDSFsKSkgnu3zaAQ6g-pFrmO1ZTgDcBnzVMMWfONe7ITRJ1dfMNgMvnNbeJJc643-4sPW/s1600/399px-Tequila_Sunrise_garnished_with_orange_and_cherry_-_Evan_Swigart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72FwHUwLwZX6cf3Kag6ObYaF4lQcizKS8CuaC4VjwpdH4aiIWltGKkTIEGALsBof4TVGsC3PdDSFsKSkgnu3zaAQ6g-pFrmO1ZTgDcBnzVMMWfONe7ITRJ1dfMNgMvnNbeJJc643-4sPW/s320/399px-Tequila_Sunrise_garnished_with_orange_and_cherry_-_Evan_Swigart.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wow aren't they stunning!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I never thought it would look <b>that</b> good! </div><div style="text-align: center;">The tequila is mixed with orange juice over ice and the trick is to pour the Grenadine syrup down the inside of the glass so that it sinks to the bottom without mixing, poring over a spoon is said to help.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wow must go and see if we have any Grenadine syrup left....dates back to our Pacific island days, I remember hating the stuff but the kids loved it. maybe I should change my mind!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well done Gina, you were spot on.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I forgot to put in the link to my original post about Flame Lantana, <a href="http://tatsakoolchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/02/transitions-no-1-roy.html">here it is</a> ....</div><div style="text-align: center;">Just read Gina's comment on that post, before she had the actual thread in her hands...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Makes me think of fireworks! I like lantana too, we just don't have much of it around here so it wouldn't be my 1st thought. I like bright colors.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So now I know that she did like bright colours. <i></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">I got as far as testing a skein today to see if the colours are right.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Dont hold your breath this is a slow, slow process.</div><div style="text-align: center;">If you have any questions about this thread please email me.<i></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">Please know that this is just my memory of Gina<i>.</i></div>Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-36347175729027958802012-02-23T19:49:00.001+00:002012-02-23T19:50:27.754+00:00Essence of Gina.<div style="text-align: center;">There has been a lot of suggestions that it would be good to dye a thread in honour of Gina. </div><div style="text-align: center;">I wish I could mix a brew that would remind me of Gina every time I looked at it<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">So what was essence of Gina to me?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Life wasn't always easy for her and often she got a raw deal.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But she seemed to pick herself up and just get on with it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Her blog was always so interesting to read, she ha a natural gift for communication.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Her metaphysical blog showed the much more thoughtful, unsure side of her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">But to me she was a ray of sunshine when she landed in my inbox. there was always something to make me smile. she ended all her emails with a smile </div><div style="text-align: center;">:-) Gina</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sometimes it would be a funny story or picture or a beautiful Powerpoint presentation of photos and music and sometimes it was just to chat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Can I distill my essence of Gina?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Well I think I already have!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Way back in 2010 I sent Gina a <a href="http://threadsofatattinggoddess.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html">sample</a> of my new thread Flame Lantana.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The second thread in my Rainbow Transitions series.</div><div style="text-align: center;">she broke her blogging sabbatical to write a post. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This is what she said-:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I got a Lantana sample from Tatskool and I think it's misnamed</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I think it looks like a tequila sunrise!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">watch the video clip of 'Tequila makes her clothes fall off!'</div><div style="text-align: center;">it will make you smile too.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>So....uh...be careful when you tat with this thread. </i>she said!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She obviously knew far too much about Tequila Sunrise and what it can do!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I must admit that I have never seen a Tequila Sunrise before, she is spot on with the colour.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">This is what she got </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gina I see you tatting with the angels brewing up one heck of a sunrise for us all.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I will never forget you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div></div>Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-59963550555175577912012-02-17T15:31:00.000+00:002012-02-17T15:31:24.132+00:00Gina Brummett.....my dear friend.<div style="text-align: center;">This week the tatting community lost one of it's brightest stars.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I lost a friend.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I knew that Gina had lung cancer and was in contact with her during her battle with it. To my shame not nearly often enough.The last thing that I heard was that she was in remission and so I never expected the news that I was to receive on Tuesday.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Not Gina, we couldn't lose her.</div><div style="text-align: center;">She was just too important to us all and had so much more to give.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">During my internet/virtual tatting life I have only met 3 tatters who have become real to me.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gina was the first. The sort of tatters that you can give a real hug to.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">In October 2006 we went to Chicago to a gecko meeting. Jane had constantly told me what a lovely person Gina was so I contacted her and told her we were in Chicago.</div><div style="text-align: center;">She wanted to drive up to meet us but couldn't and so we rented a car and drove down to Indiana to West Lafayette.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We were early, so we wandered around the campus of Perdu University where Gina worked.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Wow it was beautiful with autumn leaves in full show.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We asked in the parking garage for Gina and found out the she was known as Regina...quite a surprise.</div><div style="text-align: center;">She arrived and we hugged, she was smaller that I expected but other than that was the Gina I had come to know from the Tatting Goddess Group.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She took us to a Greek Restaurant where we met with her friend Bette another tatter who had come along.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Over dinner we chatted and chatted and chatted. Hubby enjoyed all the chatter too and Gina learned a lot about us!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO7QwPcfjIj8x6K_tbpK5T-a39WHawR83QIdah_WQhTDapJd66OnAzVxGTKbQszbrD5xI2mEsObPKsxAzRjm766GjODlqK72SCjgblhimAXLnJYzIo4AJqpi0v49MI7ghhCBjPM-kNvZRh/s1600/DSCN6703.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO7QwPcfjIj8x6K_tbpK5T-a39WHawR83QIdah_WQhTDapJd66OnAzVxGTKbQszbrD5xI2mEsObPKsxAzRjm766GjODlqK72SCjgblhimAXLnJYzIo4AJqpi0v49MI7ghhCBjPM-kNvZRh/s400/DSCN6703.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I had taken along some tatting and some Irish things that I knew she would be interested in.Particularly the Lace Trail booklet.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gina loved Ireland. She had visited with her sister (I think) and toured around and really wanted to come back. She planned her trip but had to keep postponing it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Now it's not to be.</div><div style="text-align: center;">After dinner she took me to her favourite bead shop Vons, a treasure chest. It even had a bookshop to keep hubby occupied while we drooled over beads!</div><div style="text-align: center;">The visit was all too short.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But it was the start of a friendship.</div><div style="text-align: center;">There wasn't a week went by without Gina appearing in my Inbox with a 'funny'. We shared a similar sense of humour.</div><div style="text-align: center;">In 2008 I was lucky enough to win one of Gina's monthly giveaways.</div><div style="text-align: center;">You can read all about the many things that she sent me <a href="http://tatsakoolchallenge.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-lucky-dayits-arrived.html">here</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiReqOhMHMtZL5lqo7qeGtM9Jmq5S4DUbYxLo1MrbYkaSjJqj-lnCtu-G6y12QmVrSJ-6wuwwLN5vYCgvZw_2xNi5toBm1S5vhHGQJt9IjHsIem2KOno169XvuqZ1rqFqknAhGQaU9TgZZz/s1600/P1020362Bl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiReqOhMHMtZL5lqo7qeGtM9Jmq5S4DUbYxLo1MrbYkaSjJqj-lnCtu-G6y12QmVrSJ-6wuwwLN5vYCgvZw_2xNi5toBm1S5vhHGQJt9IjHsIem2KOno169XvuqZ1rqFqknAhGQaU9TgZZz/s320/P1020362Bl.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxbSG9XcYGuKGym1GxI8_VebD8rPkbVf3etcycLlLcQzidxeoFK9nVnw1UQJX8xYpDiNY97PPB1UK8-F6YaDKAA9R3I1JE2o9wxNyHCIjx8nLxtavCRKe93JOw1TdonE4tMQD3eki07PaA/s1600/P1020361Bl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxbSG9XcYGuKGym1GxI8_VebD8rPkbVf3etcycLlLcQzidxeoFK9nVnw1UQJX8xYpDiNY97PPB1UK8-F6YaDKAA9R3I1JE2o9wxNyHCIjx8nLxtavCRKe93JOw1TdonE4tMQD3eki07PaA/s320/P1020361Bl.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There was so much more than I showed as she said she had sent me more than she should.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The package also include a lovely letter with a recent photo of all her family.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Her gifts are in a box, all together,well mostly, I will have to search for the ones that I have used.</div><div style="text-align: center;">They will be looked at and re read many times as tangible memories of a friend.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">She had promised to send me a little plastic Tatting Goddess and I like I do had said 'no hurry'.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gina thank you for being a part of my life, I will miss you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTz8MBoLQxtO6FxeOsBxYrR8tutYN_7ACX0REHhy4sFk8d6WjfT4R6ndzVEqFkaNkRiQ_dzqviW_i7SWdQI-BqIWCvzOYnv9xB13C_MSKdbCcodkU_HgUlDPLwqQjeX-4DhcUo8e13O5tb/s1600/GBreadMan3Bl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTz8MBoLQxtO6FxeOsBxYrR8tutYN_7ACX0REHhy4sFk8d6WjfT4R6ndzVEqFkaNkRiQ_dzqviW_i7SWdQI-BqIWCvzOYnv9xB13C_MSKdbCcodkU_HgUlDPLwqQjeX-4DhcUo8e13O5tb/s1600/GBreadMan3Bl.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-6214399941933161032011-12-22T17:49:00.000+00:002011-12-22T17:49:45.817+00:00Merry Christmas 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oOx06QxDyfs/TvNpdTXNLQI/AAAAAAAAFCU/3oXDZHnmLH8/s1600/aP1100234e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oOx06QxDyfs/TvNpdTXNLQI/AAAAAAAAFCU/3oXDZHnmLH8/s400/aP1100234e.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hi everyone!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To all my tatting friends out there</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have been absent way too long.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BUT</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Life happens</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">sometimes you just need to take a break.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am fine, still tatting.....just not reading blogs or writing them, or even dyeing thread!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">BUT my latest tatting adventure has been with Ruth Perry's Sweet Little Christmas Edging.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have made a couple of bookmarks in size 20 Flora, but my favourites right now are these Christmas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">tree ornaments.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just cant make enough to give to all my tatting friends , I wish that I could.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AlexJPnarQI/TvNsRfzfaMI/AAAAAAAAFCg/-U3ExjaKHjE/s1600/P1100226Blg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="303" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AlexJPnarQI/TvNsRfzfaMI/AAAAAAAAFCg/-U3ExjaKHjE/s400/P1100226Blg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I shopped around looking for little bells and was delighted to find these tiny ones in several colors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The tails without the bells fit better in an envelope tho!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">they all add enough weight for it to hang nicely on a tree without stiffening.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t4oHEHq6PSs/TvNtGSGvQwI/AAAAAAAAFCs/qkWTX7Qgghk/s1600/P1100227Bl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t4oHEHq6PSs/TvNtGSGvQwI/AAAAAAAAFCs/qkWTX7Qgghk/s320/P1100227Bl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They do match my Christmas table cloth to perfection.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I LOVE this pattern, thank you so much Ruth.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Happy Christmas, talk to you all next year.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Until I saw<i> </i>what others had done with it.....Barbara Gordon had tatted a white butterfly with a variegated surround. Umi and Tsuru had tatted a variegated pink butterfly with a pale green surround.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ok then...on to the practice piece....I forgot to make the joining picot on the antennae so mine are a bit too short. the dimpled rings were difficult to close....I could have made them a different way but decided to stick to Kirtsen's pattern...for now!</div><div style="text-align: center;">The rings in the trefoils are not connected so tend not to lie very flat...really needed blocking to put on my tree.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3-3-xGCwyG_d04Ho9jLaVjwXyrpEgfkMc9WUGAbNRirSASCqRhyphenhyphenrExiVZ4FXQizUyoTrTStScS1kE-kanCgX5WKvSy5IuJuPwpqsgX4aOB1gYZGjUSRYSn727lv0KWRLU56_T0Nl2DKT_/s1600/Egg15aBl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3-3-xGCwyG_d04Ho9jLaVjwXyrpEgfkMc9WUGAbNRirSASCqRhyphenhyphenrExiVZ4FXQizUyoTrTStScS1kE-kanCgX5WKvSy5IuJuPwpqsgX4aOB1gYZGjUSRYSn727lv0KWRLU56_T0Nl2DKT_/s400/Egg15aBl.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">For the next one I chose to tat the butterfly in my <b>Blue Lagoon</b> HDT with flowers round the outside in my <b>Berry Burst</b> HDT and chains in my <b>Daffodil Green</b> HDT all in Lizbeth 40 and it looks lovely and very delicate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxEb3Qgv7zaOIpnMFFJSlvAitOLFtzxxAPRIWiJjsKoD8If1-wgXZ7omxKoaJ-VgNd2Lqz-gOJg6RuLs5zu0hz0AvMfbSk7qxNkL3p0Ae5JWBFxcHZavHA9T0_refbK63zRznbMG5Uf0UC/s1600/Egg15bBl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxEb3Qgv7zaOIpnMFFJSlvAitOLFtzxxAPRIWiJjsKoD8If1-wgXZ7omxKoaJ-VgNd2Lqz-gOJg6RuLs5zu0hz0AvMfbSk7qxNkL3p0Ae5JWBFxcHZavHA9T0_refbK63zRznbMG5Uf0UC/s400/Egg15bBl.jpg" width="353" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I like this a lot. What a difference using different colours makes.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<a href="http://tatsaway.blogspot.com/2011/05/rolling-rolling-rolling-off-shuttle.html"><span style="font-size: small;">Rolling! Rolling! Rolling off the Shuttle</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">followed by an even more interesting post</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://tatsaway.blogspot.com/2011/05/rolling-stumpy.html">Rolling a Stumpy</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">she points to a video by </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBDh8Slh3bE">Karen Cabrera's video</a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was well worth a look but i did find her method rather overcomplicated. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">So Off i went armed with this knowledge and of course Kirsten's explanation in her book.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">it was really easy..once I held on tight to the roll stitches that I had made. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Karen's video was great for showing how quickly they can unroll!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbChSTaNf-4LHV36W0bdNn-aW8Kdytc_bU0xhDOJ_gvJ3pGlxKUNevHNVEubomoynj3bvbHCmsVCP4DAxjUUf9coXjqyVZeQJrj-9vk_HwrOz4yfeqnxSj8LF7a6NTySgh5Pclxtwc43jx/s1600/Egg14aBl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbChSTaNf-4LHV36W0bdNn-aW8Kdytc_bU0xhDOJ_gvJ3pGlxKUNevHNVEubomoynj3bvbHCmsVCP4DAxjUUf9coXjqyVZeQJrj-9vk_HwrOz4yfeqnxSj8LF7a6NTySgh5Pclxtwc43jx/s400/Egg14aBl.jpg" width="362" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Time now for some fun!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I tatted the inner chain in My <b>Daffodil Green</b> and the rings in my <b>Just Daffodils HDT.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEawplMWOAgV8-2AQOL_p3DPvCTKP10pmEed_MN5aShLx2XsV28jN_wQ8ButnmE6obAEGbJfxPq9x20ojALsSuhNAOU-JTTiGSh5zgTdnpVWG328OjSVgeHDi6ce2AtwHNG0DyWGxELUS/s1600/Egg14bBl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEawplMWOAgV8-2AQOL_p3DPvCTKP10pmEed_MN5aShLx2XsV28jN_wQ8ButnmE6obAEGbJfxPq9x20ojALsSuhNAOU-JTTiGSh5zgTdnpVWG328OjSVgeHDi6ce2AtwHNG0DyWGxELUS/s400/Egg14bBl.jpg" width="351" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> It looks so pretty, one of my favourite colour combinations.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This one was tatted in Coats Mercer size 30.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is a size comparison...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkuMAkA-0xMsLAFgHzhTvVb3YsKc_hAS-ra1SBxal26qlb84nuB6xtWPdbQYIsgq18X5YcU6v5EJ_9z1wG9ztxiNCP56Qejmg0FtfjEp-4YYzHdWLMv-hKE4091nPNNfunKuQNDJrQO-s/s1600/Egg14DuoBl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkuMAkA-0xMsLAFgHzhTvVb3YsKc_hAS-ra1SBxal26qlb84nuB6xtWPdbQYIsgq18X5YcU6v5EJ_9z1wG9ztxiNCP56Qejmg0FtfjEp-4YYzHdWLMv-hKE4091nPNNfunKuQNDJrQO-s/s320/Egg14DuoBl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Here is a close up of my roll tatting</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVPWNosI_qYcPII7St_wTeDiaWfY57CQwMPrs6pl6RSmox7WegCpXNAdrTzD3UF8sP5CIxuJLTLaHwbQFRibv4uS5S7A91cXPSXp2BI9_vzX9O-y3UFL6C-PoC30B8tRCTewfXPL6PVoU/s1600/RollTatBl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVPWNosI_qYcPII7St_wTeDiaWfY57CQwMPrs6pl6RSmox7WegCpXNAdrTzD3UF8sP5CIxuJLTLaHwbQFRibv4uS5S7A91cXPSXp2BI9_vzX9O-y3UFL6C-PoC30B8tRCTewfXPL6PVoU/s320/RollTatBl.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am dying to try it on something else now, Jon's idea of Kersti's Stumpy sounds great. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have made that before.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Mary Konior Lupins look great too. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>Tatskoolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282750261031558615noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954817887445182373.post-15824686098863625302011-05-16T15:40:00.003+01:002011-05-16T15:40:00.074+01:00Easter Eggstravaganza 13!<h3 class="post-title entry-title"></h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4581706505898577681"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Tatted Easter Eggs</b> by <i>Kirsten Wind Hansen</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">Number 13 unlucky for some!</div><div style="text-align: center;">But it worked a treat for me!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Made in one round using a split ring, it finishes with three rows of chains.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I intended to scan the first round of the egg with it's fringe of picots round the edge...looked pretty.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I had measured the picots with a picot gauge to get this fringe even enough to crochet round. I used 9mm measured horizontally.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But I forgot!</div><div style="text-align: center;">When I saw that <a href="http://barbara-gordon.blogspot.com/2011/04/motif-20.html">Barbara Gordon</a> has succeeded then I was eager to pick up my discarded egg again! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">My problem begins with.....do I need to use a extra thread to crochet with or is it really as simple as Kirsten says.....</div><div style="text-align: center;">well yes it seemed that it really was that simple....</div><div style="text-align: center;">so my next problem was...what do I do when I get to the end and have a final loop on my crochet hook????</div><div style="text-align: center;">anyone got the answer????</div><div style="text-align: center;">My final loop actually is just lying there not attached and not sew in and it hasn't come undone.....but that's not really good enough.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I contemplate putting in a magic thread to pull it thro'...but that wouldn't work with a loop!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Do I have to sew it in with matching fine thread.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Anyway at the moment I am not feeling like making another one!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Does look pretty tho'! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTev-wg-Lp0FIx3sKeqRyX47B_nzKYmZYF0dmfbFXmICbj3dCZ2Ep5Z766l3EvRbro7NH7z-0ojnO7cFDp6p0III5WMRwL8QYKh5xY5tFKUxiylhpheEEqfUqNNcThAebpWO_KQR19rRps/s1600/Egg12Bl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTev-wg-Lp0FIx3sKeqRyX47B_nzKYmZYF0dmfbFXmICbj3dCZ2Ep5Z766l3EvRbro7NH7z-0ojnO7cFDp6p0III5WMRwL8QYKh5xY5tFKUxiylhpheEEqfUqNNcThAebpWO_KQR19rRps/s400/Egg12Bl.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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