Ice Drop tutorial

Monday, August 14, 2017

Distractions

This weekend was filled with distractions... wonderful distractions, which left little time for tatting.

We spent Saturday car shopping with daughter Alison. I had forgotten how long it can take to choose a car! Sunday we visited friends.

With all the activity, I became very distracted. I tried starting a new doily, but have nothing to show for my efforts. I started several times, made foolish mistakes, snipped, trashed, and started over. I'd like to say today will be the day I really make progress, but I offered to help daughter Carol set up her classroom, so this may be another unproductive day on the doily front!


Luckily, I can almost tat Ice Drops in my sleep! I love Lizbeth Caribbean with the blue glass gem. This time I put picots on all the inside chains... much better!


I'm not sure I like the pale yellow with the pink, but I'm sure some little girl will love it, and I have several little girls who will be visiting in the next several months. 😊


Can you tell that I"m enjoying the Green Coral Sea and orange glass gem combo? Orange is not a color I am drawn to, unless it's part of a Dreamsicle, but since I have several orange glass gems, I have to find a way to incorporate them in Ice Drops. Finding threads that work with the orange has been a real eye opener for me. Who knew orange went so well with so many different colors?

18 comments:

  1. I agree with you on the yellow & pink ice drop - it doesn't seem to catch one's eye. But the other 2 are gorgeous. I miss that Anchor doesn't have orange thread - it photographs well .

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  2. I like orange and pink better than..... blue!!!

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  3. Fabulous Ice Drops!!! :)
    Wondering if you have a purple gem that I could get from you at Tollway Tatters....I had a friend request an Ice Drop with a purple gem in the center and I don't have any purple.

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  4. You did pretty well to tat so many ice drops in between the distractions!

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    1. A little here, a little there, and shazam! I have an Ice Drop!

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  5. I'm sure you're aware that one ice drop a day equals about 30 per month and 365 per year. I believe you're already ahead of that statistic.

    Amazed you have the time to work on the doily with normal daily activities!

    Do you have Jelly Bean thread? I think it would go well with the orange gems. Maybe you have tried that already? Hard to keep track!

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    1. I do have Jelly Bean. It's stashed away somewhere really safe!

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  6. Beautiful ice drops. Hope you manage to restart your doily

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  7. My granddaughter chose the peachy orange gem and jelly bean. That's next on my tatting horizon.

    ~Heidi

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