Not Guilty!

This is tatted with (Czech) Perlovka #8, a perle cotton I received from  Ice Princess, in Germany.  The thread is soft, a wee bit fuzzy and a 3-ply twist so, in spite of the great colours, I was sure I wouldn't like it, but I find it to be lovely to tat with.  Soft, yes, but there is something very nice about the way it feels both while on the shuttle and also in the finished product.  Thanks, Ice Princess! You were right.

If you want to try this thread you can visit The Thread Exchange and get in touch with Ice Princess yourself!

Here is another - I love the colours...

 #4 Motif Challenge

These patterns were from this book, which I am in the process of rediscovering.

Next:  Crazy Mom sent me wonderful, tiny Miyuki Rocaille #15 beads, and suggested I use #80 thread with them.  I have very little #80 and not good colours for the beads, so I tried them with some T.T.E. #50 Omega thread and this worked very well.  I used this book:

I found a pattern that I thought I would love, but I am learning that my taste does not run to the very intricate and very fiddly!

Not my cuppa !

 

I tatted enough to feel that I had given it a valiant attempt, but decided to be complete with this particular experiment that finished only about an eighth of the pattern . I am enjoying a new attitude of being honest about my preferences, even though it may be only to myself!

 

Crazy Mom also sent me a package of "threaders".  Using these things was the only way I could get those beads onto the motif , as my little hooks at size .05 were way too large!

I used one of these gum things, but pulled it all the way open first, so it was one long piece of plastic, and then threaded it through an individual picot and threaded it back on itself, pulling it through the picot  to make an opening into which I pulled the motif thread, using a crochet hook.  How's that for obfuscating dialogue!

Never did it that way before, because I did  not have teeny, tiny beads!

Now I do!  I will save those luscious beads for a worthy motif and use the threaders, and will probably tat with #40 or #50 thread, which works just fine!

Thanks to my tatting buddy, S.M.,  I was able to figure out a pattern that had absolutely flummoxed me.

With the puzzle solved, I proceeded to tat the motif and quickly ascertained that I did not like or enjoy it at all, so again, I said farewell, and jettisoned the project with absolutely NO GUILT!  This is indeed progress.  Would that I had learned how to do this DECADES ago!

Now to a crocheted piece for The Boss's Brother.

Cute and boyish, right?

This is a prototype for The Boss's new fall hat - her mom's request.  

Brown with a big, pink,  lacy flower on the side.

I think my DDL imagines a crocheted flower, but my creative path runs more to this sort of tatted beauty...

What do you think?  
How am I going to attach those three pink motifs?

At work, we have some three ply cotton - perle, in shades of pink.  I think it might be very like the Perlovka, so I am excited to see what different pinks I can find, and I might try it as it is also #8 - but an unknown brand....

 Last, but not least:

 This purchase, an absolute must-have, is entirely Elizabeth's fault!
It arrived this week from LaCossette.

Sweet!

Don't forget about Tat Days with Fringe Element Tatters, 

in September, in Cambridge, Ontario. Check it out!

 One last question...  Where are we with

?

Anon,