Flower #1- Karey Solomon's flower

Flower #1- Karey Solomon's flower [Bottom Left]

This started with Karey Solomon's idea in Tatting Times August 2010. Karey has a pattern from using up thread off of shuttles. Her Grandmother's Flower Garden tablerunner-tablecloth-bedspread is all little flowers of compatible colors fused together.    

The instant I saw it I thought about my Grandma's Flower Garden quilt pattern . I wanted mine to look more like that so I used a gold color to go around the flower. This flower started with Karey's hand dyed size 20 thread. It is variegated purple, blue and green. I surrounded her little flower with 6 others then surrounded the whole circle with gold Elizabeth size 20.

Turtle Earrings

Since I worked all day one day last week boiling china berries to send to the Southern Belles in Tennessee, I thought I would post here one of my china berry projects....my little China Berry Turtles. I was yet again at a loss for things to enter in the SC State Fair because I seem to give away everything I tat in the course of a year, so I entered this little project under jewelry. I have already had a peek at what Bonnie G and Pam Esberg have done and their stuff is over the top, so mine is just slow as a turtle.....that fits me.

My Tatting Table

This is a picture of my tatting table in the living room. See if you can find a rat, an angel, a palmetto tree and a beaded flower. The framed work is Nina Libin's. The tiny white flowers are all Riet Surtel-Smeulders. The palmetto tree is Jane Eborall's. The rat is Ratattouee from Sue Hanson. The picture at the back on the left is my grandmother and some of her work. She was 94 when she passed and the picture on the right was her aunt Flora who was her best friend and year younger. Aunt Flora lacked one month being 100 but this was her Sweet Sixteen picture. The collage is my tatting as well as my mothers, my grandmothers, Aunt Flora's and Miss Maggie Kirkpatrick from our PTG Guild. Miss Maggie died on her 108th birthday and was blind for the last 5 years of her life but still tatted every day.

The 3rd time is the charm. The reason it wasn't saving was because it was saved as bitmap and too large. Here goes.

Recycle Earrings

This is what I worked on for my entry in the SC State Fair October 2009. It took longer for me to figure it out than it did to make the first and second pair. I didn't like the hole showing so I covered it up with Riet's Daisy Picot. I have since made earrings with just the daisy picots for little girls.

Recycle Earrings

This is the pair of earrings that I worked on for the SC State Fair October 2009.

Hen and Chicks for Baby Socks

This is my deviation of the standard hen and chicks pattern. I let the "eggs" hang loose to give me some flexablity when sewing them onto the elastic so they can stretch when being put on. I used to sew the tatting to the baby socks but a. the baby outgrew the socks quickly or b. the baby got the white socks really stained. So now the tatting can be slipped on and off of any pair of socks.

I have made many of these earrings using cabone rings and doing them in school colors. This is the garnet and black USC earrings.