Denise went shopping!

...and surprised me with this adorable little Mary Engelbreit tin bucket and a ball of size 20 Lizbeth. The thread, Falling Leaves, matches the colors of the leaves on the bucket... too cute!

Her timing was great! I needed a little cheering up...

I was in my first car accident on Sunday. My poor little car! She's not even a year old, and we waited so long to get her... ten and a half years. Luckily, no one was hurt, and my car was the least damaged of the three. My Little Black Beauty will be home soon, hopefully as good as new!

I've finished two more purple snowflakes.

I'll keep tatting snowflakes until the end of October. I wonder what tatting binge will take hold next?

Lovin' the Victorian Red!

I've really enjoyed tatting with Lizbeth Victorian Red. It's really putting me in the Christmas spirit!

These are the last three of my 7 flakes. It's kind of nice having 7 patterns... I stay on task, and I enjoy tatting with new colors.

Snowflake #3

Snowflake #2

Snowflake #1

Too keep myself organized, I put my snowflake supplies in a basket. These are all the threads I'd like to use, along with the doodads, jump rings, and ornament hooks I need for each snowflake. I treated myself to a little cleaning on Monday, and I feel much more focused now!

I had a lovely surprise in the mail yesterday. My youngest daughter's father-in-law sent me a book and two shuttles from Slovakia. I suppose I'll have to wait until Joanne and Jan come to visit so that I can get a translation. I wonder how my son-in-law will like reading to me? ;-)

Two more Victorian Red snowflakes

I am so glad that Kristine asked me to tat a snowflake in Victorian Red!

I finished this one before school this morning,

and I tatted this one tonight. I'm having too much fun!

Weekend Tatting

What do you do when you get new shuttles? I ooh and ah over them, rub them between my fingers...

turn them over and admire the loving care that went into creating them...

and then I put them to work! In case you don't recognize the craftsmanship, these lovelies are from La Cossette. From left to right... Cherry Blossoms, Kaleidoscope, and Green Fairy. I've been waiting for Green Fairy to be available again... she is a wonderful tatting companion!

I finished three Blue Ice snowflakes on Saturday...

completing the set of seven.

I thought of dropping this round one from my collection, but it appeals to me even though it doesn't really look like a snowflake.

Today I tried tatting with metallic floss. The sheen doesn't show up very well on the computer, but they are very pretty in person. One skein yielded two snowflakes. I used three strands of the floss on each shuttle. They're a little larger than the size 20 Lizbeth flakes, about 3 1/4" across.

Needless to say, floss is much more expensive than a ball of Lizbeth! I don't think I'll tat with metallic floss very often. It's time-consuming to separate the threads, and it's very hard on my fingers!

Feelin' flaky!

I really thought I'd finish at least six snowflakes this weekend, but somehow time got away from me!

This is an extended version of my first snowflake. The first one had three Josephine knots on each chain. This one has five. I don't think it looks much like a snowflake, but it's still pretty!

I didn't feel like looking back at my patterns, so I just doodled again. I'm really not sure if this is one of the flakes I made in Christmas Delight or not. I think it looks nice in the Blue Ice.

I don't really like the way this one turned out. I think I need to have longer chains. So, back to the drawing board! Or maybe I should say back to the tatting shuttles!