The Second Time Around - Success!

                                                                                           #9

This is the second Myra Piper motif.  The first one, I realize had a big mistake and that is why I couldn't get it blocked properly.  I had attached a chain in the wrong place, right at the very start.

That seems to be my routine way of tatting.  I make that initial blunder at the onset, and do not see it till the second time I tat the pattern.

At any rate, this one is correct and it is tatted in my very own HDT!!!  The flowers are done with the lighter dyed version, along with a King Tut quilting thread my sister sent me last year, which is so very thin I never thought I'd use it. It is a purple, lilac and yellow, variegated fibre.

Than you, Jane, for the absolutely brilliant idea of combining threads!

The photo does not show how pretty and heathery the colour is.  I am really thrilled with the results.

~*~

R.I.P.

This is what happens when you go out for coffee and take tatting along and have only one needle with you.  It's inevitable.

I got this needle at a dollar store and have not been able to find another like it.  It is a heavy, big sewing needle with an eye large enough to get a jump ring through.  I have found a replacement, but alas, it is not the same caliber as the old one.

                                                                                        #10
Another of Sherry's notes. Tatted in Yarnplayer's 'Corsage', which is all gone.
Such a pretty thread....

Anon,