The Grass is Greener...

One For The Kid

Gray will be three next month, and I have been looking for the right T-shirt to do justice to the goat.  Perfect!

The G-man looks wonderful in shades of orange and he loved the goat. When I asked if he would like to have it if  I were to sew it sewn on a shirt, his response was very animated - so to speak!  It will be fun to give it to him on his day.

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Mail today! 

A sweet gift from Livi and 

wonderful new colours from Jess.  

Oooh, those threads are pretty! 

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Angeline Update: 

The book is winging her way 

to Miranda.  : ))

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Sneak Peek:

Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire

Okay - so I am crazy unhinged tremendously a wee bit obsessed.  How's that for an oxymoron! I just had to finish it...

From Iris Niebach's book, Tatting Together Square Motifs,    #96

design by Ulla Bendtsen 

Thread Lizbeth #40

It is not very good: I had trouble getting those arms to lie properly and also had the same problems that Tatting Fool had with the design - it's ALL her fault.

It's is a tough one. But it is finished.  So there.

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The blue thread from Tattin'Kat is so pretty.  I had it wound on the shuttles and raring to go before I had even sewn in the threads of the motif above.

Armed with my newest, favourite LaCossette shuttle, 

I started something completely new.  

I'm not telling yet!

Tortured Tatting

You know I will finish just about anything, but I am drawing the line on this one.

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This is from an Iris Niebach book. The pattern is gorgeous, but for me, impossible to tat well, even though I figured out quite easily HOW to tat it.

I find the patterns in this book ( Tatting Together Square Motifs) very fiddly and though the designs are so lovely, the finished shapes have been so manipulated that I find the process not very pleasurable. Challenging? Yes. But for me, not satisfying.

After 812 days of tatting I felt I  could admit that!  Yes, 812 days, give or take a day or so.  That is how long I have been at it and I do not think I have missed many days along the way.  I think I am going to stick with it.  : ))

A satisfying tat over the weekend that 

was also a perfect challenge:

#95                                       Lizbeth #40

This is Calendula,  by Iris Niebach, from her Tatting Fantasia book #1.  I tatted it with these colours, because I had a lot of lilac on a shuttle and I am obsessive about using up thread before I wind more.

I do not think I would normally have chosen the combination, but I rather like it.

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As with most of the Iris Niebach designs, I had to un-tat a gazillion times, and I am so thankful that I have this tool:

What do you tatters out there in Tat-Land use, you who tat with a bobbin shuttle as I usually do, when you need to un-tat?  I found a pin just did not do the trick.

I had two of the Tat-Pics and lost the Holly - or so I thought - so I orderd another from David. (God forbid I should end up without a spare!)

Then my son found my grandson wandering about the house with a "deadly weapon." ( my son's description - ah, young parents!) So, now I have three.  I feel secure and at peace knowing I have an abundance. Doesn't take much!

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Today, a surprise in the post:

Goodies from Tattin'Kat:

Thank you so much!   Enclosed was a sweet little tatting bag with the pockets inside and a drawstring.  Very useful, and there is a lovely note (kind words, indeed!) on a huge red heart the Tattin'Kat and her little daughter made for me. 

I love the colours of the vintage thread so much that I am going to load up my shuttles tonight, now that I have decided not to finish that motif!

First, though, I might have to get rid of someone's excesive energy... This is for Margaret...