My Boy's Bookmark

#16 - 100 Motif Challenge

Leaf pattern by Karey Solomon

Thread by Tatskool

All those bookmarks later, I realize I have not given my son, who reads a lot, a tatted bookmark. Poor thing!

Last weekend I parted with the last bookmark I made using one of Martha's''Playing With Picot's patterns. I gave it to my son's wife.

So, today, when I take my son out for lunch, I will give him this leaf. He is a wonderful man who has always supported my tatting, my blogging or whatever else I find myself engrossed in.

They are not exactly the colours I had envisioned, but this is the last of the tatskool, leaf-appropriate thread, so it had to do.  It is kind of growing on me - and I like the tail!

Also, I find it masculine.  So, good. I do hope it will please him.

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Something really strange happened yesterday...

I was going through all my tatting, as my sis is coming to town this week, and I will give her a batch of older tats to play with in her quilting and fabric design endeavours.  (I have unloaded a lot of the old stuff - very freeing!)

I found a green and yellow motif that I didn't remember tatting, and when I felt it I actually thought it was one that umintsuru had sent me, as it is very tightly and uniformly stitched.  It is a lovely piece of tatting.  Obviously it was not mine. Mystified, I just could not quite place it.

So, I started to check back through previous tat-ology posts and lo and behold there it was!  Here. 

Yup - it is Bree's 'Shaded Sun,' and it is tatted by MOI!  Can you believe it!  I did not recognize my own tatting and I was shocked to see how lovely it was.  Laugh-worthy, no?

Not much of my tatting is as nice as this piece and I am trying to figure out why this one turned out so well, how I managed to get that great tension.  Usually my tatting is much floppier.  So, what happened here?

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These are vintage beads that my mom collected for me.  I have blogged about them before, writing about this yellow motif, where I first added them to my work.  

I am using them in a fabulous pattern by Susanne Schwenke, and I noticed that they are not glass; I think they are shell.  

If they are not shell, I have no idea what they would be.  They have a lovely lustre and are iridescent with flashes of orangey/red when the light hits them at a certain angle.

Also, they are all different in size and some are quite irregular in shape. Anyone have any ideas?

I am really having fun with this particular motif...