March Tatting

Here it is the end of March and I haven't posted hardly anything. I have been tatting though. I am working on my Bocher Models for The Online Tatting Class. Here are some of the patterns I have been working on. I have no pictures to help with the patterns. So sometimes it is a guess as to where they picots or joins are suppose to be. In one pattern I work one of the sections call for an extra picot which made the ring larger. I couldn't find anything to tell me different so I made it that way. Then I made another one with out the extra stitches and I thought it worked out much neater.



This purple piece is called an edging but it has a lot of curve to it and would need to go on a circle project. The first one of these i made was in green and I was going to use it on a journal page for my sister's flower journal I am making, but.....Sadie had other plans and I only found bits and pieces of it on the floor. I try very hard to make sure any tatting is put up where she can't find it. She can destroy something in a matter of minutes. This morning she grabbed a ball of tatting tread and I had to bribe her with a treat to get it back.





I am still working on this pattern. It is difficult to get it to lay flat with the instructions that I have. I am going to try it using two shuttles to see if I can get a smoother look to the pattern. I do like it and think in a finer thread it would look great as a hanky edge. Here it is done in size 20 and the bottom blue one in size 10. I don't remember what thread I used.

I have been working on Easter Eggs. I will have to wait to post them as I have not scanned them yet.

Yesterday we had horrible weather, snow, sleet, rain and more snow. They were saying we had black ice this morning so I did not go to work. That means I can join the Online Tatting Class at three today instead of 8 tonight. The sun is out now and most of the snow is melting. I will be so glad when Spring really gets here and the snow is gone for a few more months.

This last piece is the first time through on an edging. I like the pattern and think it too would look great on a hanky. Since I have lots of nieces and great nieces I can practice a lot on hankies for them. I don't care for the red and green I used but it was on the shuttles and I need to finish them off so I could put on something else. All three of these patterns are from the Bocher Book we are restoring for the Online Tatting Class.

I am still having issues with my new glass and that makes it difficult for almost everything I try to do. I am thinking I will go back and have the lines put back in them so I can see what I am looking at. This weekend I was having issues with reading a book and when I was working on my sister's journal the pages moved ever time I turned my head. Not a fun feeling.

He made it...........

A few weeks ago I mentioned my second grandson was in a lottery for a magnet school in North Carolina. He had to wait to see if his name was drawn out of the hat, and it was. We found out late last night. He is so excited his best friend and a girl he knows will also be going there in the fall. What a blessing for all of them. He will be studying computer engineering and hopes one day to be able to build computer games.





Not much tatting has been completed this week. I have been working on samples for the Design Tat class I joined and that has kept me busy. I hope to scan the samples this evening so I can upload them to the classroom. I don't want to get behind.





I also am trying to learn to needle tat. My hat is off to all of you who do. I can barely get the ds on my needle and forget adding a picot. I don't think I will master the needle, it will always be the master of me.




I did finish the yellow hanky edging that I lost. I attached it to a piece of linen that I had so I actually made the hanky itself. I have three more that just need to be hemmed and I can made edging to add. So many hankies what will I do with them?