Starlight

Well, this was definitely fiddly galore! So many picots and chains and the thread while tatting tended to get stuck between chains. I won’t be tatting this again!

Shall I go on about how the thread twisted and snarled? How it broke and knotted? How it had slubs and got very thin after being twice the thickness? How my words burst forth with four-letter blasphemous vigour? Perhaps not...

Also, I am using up the dreaded Lizbeth thread and I do NOT like the colours in this motif one bit. But, I did persevere and finish and for that alone I am pleased. And the Lizbeth dwindles.

Lizbeth #80

Measures 7”

One of those free vintage online patterns 

Any Guesses?

Very fiddly, but I'm using up the Lizbeth!

Helpful Hankie

A while back, I was given a beautiful hankie from umintsuru, who tatted a gorgeous border on it. I put it in a drawer to keep it pristine. Why?

Yesterday, while frustrated that I could not get my glasses streak free, I had a brainwave. Why not use hankies, instead of tissues or towelling to dry them after cleaning?

I have given most of the hankies I have worked on away, but I remembered umintsuru's beauty and promptly rescued it from its hiding place. Perfect solution to my filmy glasses problems! Thanks again, Wendy!

I'll be laundering it, and it will get very worn, but what else is a hankie for? I know that some tatters carry a hankie in their purse all the time. Do you?

Umintsuru - what is this pattern?

Frivole's Finest

... snowflake, that is!

 This is a gorgeous design and just simple rings and chains.

SNOWDROP - A delightful pattern:

Then, with the rest of the thread, I 

tatted Gina Blummett's Netted Heart:

All tatted with #30 DMC.