A One Inch Leaf & Ten Inches Larger!

Update on Renulek 'Snowflake Napkin' 

Row 5

The leaf by Karey Solomon is about one inch across.
The doily is eleven. : o
Largest thing I have ever tatted.

It is tatted using Ladytat's Grandmother's vintage thread, 

which is lovely - like silk.

Lots of tatting - 12 motifs, followed by 12 joining motifs...

I had no idea what I would do for the joining motifs as I was getting VERY bored with the fuchsia, and I thought a colour break was appropriate - but I was SO UNSURE! I tried a bunch of different colours against the doily:

I chose the variegated green.

Nothing, but NOTHING, is remotely what I would call one of my favourite shades or colours. This whole doily is composed of colours in my stash I am trying to use up!

I actually had to be brave to experiment with this strange and unfamiliar pallette; that is difficult to do as a creative person.

I learned a lot reading Bonnie's blog yesterday, concerning bravery and creativity. I had not thought about creativity in these terms:

to live a creative life,

we must lose

our fear of being wrong.

                                                                   ~ joseph chilton pearce

Check it out here. Thanks Bonnie. 

Miranda has been tatting a lot of leaves. I was inspired by all her lovely motifs and I intrigued with this one of Karey’s from this month’s “Tatting Times’ called the Globetrotting Bookmark; thus, the leaf, tatted with Ladytat’s thread.

#3/100 Motif Challenge

Speaking of Miranda...  Last year Gian got a gift from her - a harp string! What could be a better toy for The Boy than that?

It has been in hiding for several months, to ensure a renewed interest from His Highness. I believe the tactic was a roaring success. See for yourself.