Saturday, August 17, 2013

Delights and Doldrums

Pattern from Lindsay Rogers’s Mastering Tatting
Silk thread from Suneeti - I lost the label; it might be Yarnplayer’s.
(21/2 " square)


Treasures from Sally and I’m in the Garage!

These amazing gifts from Sally were quite a surprise! I love the little boxes she does and the tatted bookmark already has a great tatting-book home.

I told her the DMC thread will be perfect for the Trellis Doily, but I am having such horrendous problems with that pattern, even with the wonderful aid posted on Frivole’s blog. I just cannot get it to look right.. : (

That shuttle is Silver Maple... I rescued a large branch two years ago and dried it out in my basement but found I could never afford to mail what I had taken! So I’m in the Garage got only a small sampling of the wood and Sally has so kindly sent me one of the shuttles made from the Canadian tree. I just love it! Thank you, Sally and your talented partner in the Garage!

(The little shuttle in the back - perfect soon for The Boss! I have big plans for her! She is very clever with crafts, artistic and adventurous with colour... I can’t wait. The shuttle is perfect! It joins a plastic one Michelle sent me a long time ago. Shuttles-In-Waiting. : ))

Kudos for Cindy who is also trying out the Trellis Pattern here. Jane M. also did a lovely job.

What is the matter with my shuttles? My fingers? My thread ? My PATTERN?  FRUSTRATION brings out the #$&*$&*#.... you know what I mean...

13 comments:

  1. I have no doubt you will get that doily looking fabulous! I, on the other hand, am only promising round one :)

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  2. Love the motif! (and the shuttles, and the thread) I'm beginning to understand the collecting aspect of this craft. Starting to fall prey...

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  3. Great parcel. I'm sorry you're in the doldrums with the trellis though! I'm sure there will be an aha moment, and then you'll be away.

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    1. I am beyond aggravated! I have pulled off the thread and hidden it for the moment till I cool off!

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  4. Hi Fox

    Lovely motif, and lovely pattern, looking good
    Gorgeous shuttle and so pale in your wood, gorgeous blue thread I am looking forward to seeing your doily in it.
    Love to Gian, how did he get on?
    Margaret

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  5. That square motif and color way are gorgeous! What lovely work! I can't wait to see that trellis doily in that stunning blue.

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  6. I will have to do this trellis work it intrigues me, from the looks of it I feel I will struggle too, till I teach my brain to work the pattern. Frivole makes every thing look so easy, that girls good! It's funny how you can have a real hate for an object ha ha I so been there! I remember looking at pictures of tatting just one after another and then seeing this totally messed up ball with a shuttle stuck in it. I couldn't stop laughing! :)

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    1. Frivole makes it look so easy! Yes, she is the best!

      Have a go at the pattern... I don’t think it is actually difficult - just fiddly and I do loathe fiddly!
      Fox : ))

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  7. Ah, but you are persistent, so I know you will get it! Lovely gifts from across the pond... can't wait to see what you do with them!

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  8. Pleased you like your gifts. Just can't believe that they arrived so quicky. This time last week I had not even posted them! Looking forward to see what you use the thread for, it goes well with gold beads! Sorry I love beads!

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    1. I am having enough trouble as it is with the Trellis Doily without adding gold beads, than you very much, though I love beads too!

      I will have lots of that beautiful blue thread to do something else and I will add gold beads... Just for you. : )

      The Trellis pattern does look amazing in the blue/turquoise Cebelia.
      Fox : )

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  9. Lovely parcel you received. Sorry the pattern is giving you fits.

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