Berry Nice!

 Cat food tins can be hazardous to your digits!  The Peter Pointer that is über-important for shuttle tatting took a beating this weekend - or should I say a big slice?

Doing the right thing - washing the tins before putting them in the recycling container - I felt a paper-cut kind of feeling...  you don't want to hear the rest! 

Marty and the heamostat (sounds like a medicinal rock band-ade!) sprung to mind, but I think I fared a wee bit better than she did!

In spite of the first aid pits stop, the strawberry is done.  Am not sure if there will be only one or one in each corner.
Would four be over the top? 
Anon,

Drama Dyslexic

 Wow -  I have had some problems with this pattern!  I know it's me, not the instructions.  After a slow starts,  I got the idea, and I like the shape a lot.

At the moment I am adding the green overlay, and am considering adding the finished piece to the corner of a white crocheted blanket (not yet completed) that I am making for grandbaby- on-the-way - #......FIVE!

What do you think?

Strawberry Heart  with a Celtic Style Top by Birgit Phelps      

It is going to be cute, if not a wee bit kitchy, I think. Nothing exactly wrong with a bit of kitch, here and there.....(Just look at that lovely little Aero, made in England, sitting proudly, holding the thread....sigh.......)

Anon,

Grandma's Shuttles

Remember I told you that I had won the Ebay auction?  
Well, here is my wonderful prize!

 

 The description read:

You are bidding for a tatting shuttle I think it is called it is a thin plastic 6.5cm maker Milward, and also a similar item with a hook at the end and a bobbin in the centre, maker Aero 7.5cm,They were my grandmothers and she died about 30 years ago, so I have no idea how old they are

I wrote the vendor to tell her that I would care for her Grandmother's shuttles and that they would have a good home. 

I am so sentimental that I tatted the rings and chains with the thread that was still on the shuttles and will keep these as well as the tiny, white ring that was hidden under the bobbin thread. The white thread was 0bscured under the coloured thread and emerged as I tatted.

It was an odd feeling, finding the ring as I used the thread wound so long ago by someone gone for so many years.  I felt strangely close to the spirit of this long ago tatter.  It was a lovely and unusual experience.

Then this morning I received a message from her granddaughter:

Hi Fox
How nice of you to let me know you have received them. I kept them when she died, fully intending to learn how to do tatting, but when I tried I failed miserably, I can knit and crochet, but this seemed too complicated and now i just don't seem to have the patience, so I am glad that they will be of use to someone, I was very surprised to see how expensive they were, I fully expected them to go a lot cheaper, It just shows, never throw anything away.
I hope you enjoy using them, i still have hankies and cloths with tatted edgings that she made me all those years ago and I am still using them.
Best wishes

XXX

And enjoy them I shall!  The English Aero shuttle is as wonderful as I have heard people say.  It is my best shuttle yet, and I only wish I had a couple more of them.  But expensive?  Don't ask!

I just found out that Jane was selling them on her Etsy shop, but I never knew about that, and now there are none left! However, I feel I was destined somehow to be using these, so I suppose all is as it should be after all!

Anon,

Ciao Coasters - For Now!

Second set in its acrylic armour.

The Eight

This time I glued the tatting (simple LePage glue stick) to the foam side of the backing, very lightly.  It cannot be seen and I sure hope it holds.  If it does, I am tempted to do this number over again.  Call me a glutton for punishment....

Anon,