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Karey Solomon's HDT

Now that I have created a new blog - foxtangles - I no longer have to post about this crazy obsession with TangleWorld, here on tat-ology!

So, I tatted last evening... Guesses?

Isn't it pretty? And I don't mean the Blue Pimpernel shuttle, though it is one of my favourite shuttle-covering designs.

Ah, yes, in the mail yesterday, a gift from a giveaway:

Jess at Tat-ilicious is offering HDT's in her shop on Etsy and I have to say this is lovely thread!  Thank you Jess.  I have tatted with this before in a sample she sent me here, and really enjoyed the colours.

I have plans for this new batch, which happily is #40!

Terminating Twenty

The last of the #20 thread has been used up and I have the mutilated digits to show for it!  I only had a little left - an HDT from one of the designers, but I apologize, I do not know whose it is!  I lost the tag.

Though the colours are great, I found that after using only #40 or smaller lately, this thread felt like I was tatting with hemp.  My fingers are a mess!

I  remember reading a blog post - I believe it was Miranda's -  on this very issue, and I have to agree with her; it is awkward to use thicker thread if you are not used to it.

At any rate, all the #20 is finished, my hands are saved and I have a lovely little motif to show for it.

#59 and #60-100 Motif Challenge

Also, I will not use two differing weights together again, as it never usually works well.This motif pulled way too much, as the pink is a #50, so the chains are too short. Live and learn.

This is from the Easter Eg book, but I had to leave out two repeats, because I was about to run out of thread, so I have a circle instead of the intended oval.

Then I tatted another egg, this one in Karey Solomon's HDT #30 Cebelia. I have complained a lot ( oh, how I do LOVE to kvetch!) in the past about Cebelia, but I have come to enjoy tatting with it in the #30 very much.  Too bad there are so few nice colours.

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This is the last of the 'foxtangles'!  If I feel the need to keep posting them, I shall post on the other blog! What? Addicted? Me?

If you are interested in Zentangles, check out this site, but be warned.  This is where I was first lured into the world of tangles!

Tatting and Zentangles

Except for this little motif, from the Tatted Easter Eggs book,  I have done very little tatting in the past few days.

#58-100 Motif Challenge

One of the beads met with disaster when I placed the crystal  (-cut-glass! Thank's Diane!) pitcher that I use to press tatting with on top of this motif.  I was not paying attention and crashed the glass on top of the beads and one of them shattered.

The reason for this lack of attention and the pause in my tatting mania can be blamed on this - my first attempts at a fun new venture:

Two days ago, after reading all about this stuff on the many sites I found online, I hustled to a Staples store and bought a pen and little book and tried my hand at this art form.

Forty-eight hours later... I'm afraid I might be hooked. Anybody out there know what I am talking about?  Zentangles.

Now I am seeing patterns everywhere. And I am fascinated with figuring out how to draw them.  Can't be anything but good for my tatting, if only I could get the pen out of my hand!

Romp with Regency

Regency Doily, that is, designed by Karey Solomon.

57-100 Motif Challenge

Thread is Lizbeth #40 and 

Tatskool's gorgeous Ginger and Clove  HDT #40 

from her Spice collection. 

Thanks Suneeti!

The pattern for this motif, which measures just under five inches in diameter when tatted in #40 thread, appears in the February 2011 issue of Tatting Times. It has taken about a week to tat, most of it having been completed while in NYC.

My eldest Grand (nearly 7) loved this and requested one like it, but with another layer attached on the top!  Imagine that!

Once again, I used restraint in adding beads, and am pleased with the results, though I do notice where I could have utilized a wee bit of glamour in the centre, with a controlled application of ochre or terra cotta Delicas.

With the remaining thread I pulled out this book:

This is the pattern I chose: