Bootees and a New Bonnet

Finsihed two more booties.  Now that I have made over a dozen of them I am looking for ways to tweek the pattern.  I have done some front side/back side tatting as I realized at one spot it was actually comming out with the back showing.  Had to fix that right away.  I really need to learn how to do split chains and maybe I could do them without cutting and tying the thread after each round.

This first pair was made with Lizbeth Thread Number 134 Mountain Breeze in sise 20.  I think they look very boyish.  Sometimes it is difficult to find colors that look like boys.

This next pair is made from Size 20 Green Cebella  It was two dark for solid green so I added in the white.  I think it looks a lot like Christmas, or maybe it is just the season is getting close.  The green ribbon seems to sparkle in th is picture.

And now for the baby bonnet.  It is out of Cebella White Size 20.  I have just gotten started on it but it feels like it will be going fairly quickly.  I  will post additional pictures of the bonnet when I complete the next round.  The pattern is one I purchased, the designer is JoAnn Stearns.  I think I purchased the pattern at  Handy Hands.

I am also struggling to learn now to needle tat.  I learned how to shuttle tat and I enjoy that very much but have been told some patterns are better suited to the needle so now I am attempting that method.  It is very challenging to me and I have not yet put more than two rings together.  I had a second chain on this but it didn't curve right so I had to rip it out.  This will be an adventure.

More Bocher Samples

Here is another sample from the Bocher Book for the Online Tatting Class. This is a floret, it would have been longer but I ran out of thread on the shuttle so it is just a short piece.

I have been working on the needle tatting for class but am still struggle with it. I can finally make a decent ring but the chain is now giving me trouble. I need to find a video online to watch maybe that will help me out.

I am also working on some hairpin tatting. I find that is very time consuming I have a lot to get done before class next week. It isn't difficult and will look wonderful when I get it finished.

Then I saw on InTatters they are hosting a bookmark exchange. I would like to join but my time for tatting is at a premium right now. With working and being on the road an hour and a half each way it does eat into my time. Maybe I should give up the work and just concentrate on the tatting.

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?

My first.....

Today I am showing off some of my "first". This is my first foray into front/back side tatting. As long as I remember what I was doing it was fun. A couple of time I had to unknot knots because I didn't start with the 2ds. All in all it was a fun experience and I will probably do some more of this type of tatting. I am going to count this motif as part of my 25 Motif Challenge. It is from the Emanuel Bocher 1912 Tatting Book we are studying and restoring in the Online Tatting class.

Then it was my first attempt at needle tatting. It only took me about two hours to do this one little ring and there isn't much tension in it. I don't think I like needle tatting but am will to work at it until I become more proficient.