Poppies; Pilots; My Dad

Pattern is adapted from Jon's "August Poppy"

Mail For The Millwright

 

Design by Judith Connors 

I have tatted this heart a lot as I like the simplicity of it. ( I did take the liberty of making a little change in this pattern with the number of picots)  The beads are metal!  And there is a crystal at the tip which is pretty in the sun.  I hope this cheers the patient.

Glad I figured out a way to hang  motifs.  I shall become a real bore with these carbone rings.  Love them.

 Design by elisadusud. HDT  is Peace by Yarnplayer

It held such promise... sigh.... I messed up the pattern in two critical places - sorry Elisa!  But, I am still happy I got the thing tatted.  

The colour combo is  yuchy!  That is what happens when I am so intent on the design, I forget to check what I have loaded in the shuttles! The HDT would be so much better with another colour or shade.

It is a lovely design and I shall tat it again.  Off to the Post Office.

Tags for Tots

I used to have such trouble twisting those little cords - don't know why as they are dead simple...NOW!  I didn't want to tat cords, so I twisted these as hangers for the tags for the dragon wrapping.  This things are now put away till December when I shall wrap them and attach these little tags.  Cute, huh!  I thought even the tags reflect the different personalities of the kids.

Thanks, Krystle,  for the HDT sample!

 

A friend of the family just had emergency heart surgery and is doing well today.  I will tat him a heart using the pewter-coloured, metal beads ( he is a millwright!) to send in lieu of a store-bought card. Judith Connors's pattern is perfect for this.

 

These will have to wait till I have done the heart.  Aren't they a great colour?  I have been eyeing them and wondering what I will do ...

Lastly, I am almost finished this elisadusud  heart and I am really pleased.  The colour?  I just grabbed two shuttles and began it; unfortunately not paying attention to what the thread looked like.  Not crazy about the colours.  Maybe a blue beaded one next? 

My Fancy Dancy Design

  

Design by Fox,  Thread by Karey Solomon

Wow, that felt really cool to type!  Well, enough of overweening pride...Hubris will out!  I forgot to add a bead, and in fact forgot to join two picots!  There you are,  Confessions of a tatting designer --- whoops!  Did it again!

"So obnoxious," says Maebh, who has been disgusted with me for days.

"You have forgotten  D-I-G-N-I-T-Y," she spelled out to me this morning, very, very slowly.   Then she turned her back and gave The Cat a tweak on the ear.

Just to keep the tatting in perspective, (says the OCD tatter)
I noticed this this morning:

Boo Hoo!