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Where has the time gone??
Here is is almost time for the 4th of July and where have I been? One place was to North Carolina, where my oldest grandson graduated from High School. In the picture you see him, his mom in the red...
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Baby Bootie
Just so you can see I have not been totally idle this last month. Here is my first complete baby booties. It as done as a test pattern, to see if I could do it. I think it turned over very well and am...
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The first pair.
Here they are the first completed pair of booties. I still have the ends to work in but I am very happy with how these have turned out. I did learn a lot by making the test bootie and was able to fine...
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Sadie.....NO!!
Look what happens when your dog gets ahold of your tatting project. I had just finished the second round on the second bootee and put it down for the night. The next morning while I was getting ready...
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The Seahorse
I decided to take a break from baby booties. I have three pair done and am working on the fourth paid with two more to go. I added another pair by request. So I have done two lime green pair and a pair...
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Dhamana Bookmark
After finishing my 7th pair of baby booties I was looking for something else to work on before I start another big project. On InTatter, Kersti posted the October Challenge. To tat something with some...
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My body has been found!!
Well at last the stork body that was lost. I am making Jane Eborall's stork and I lost the second body that I did for a week. Too many sewing projects going on the table. It was lost amongst the fabric...
View ArticleOff to Alaska
Thursday is the big day I am leaving for Alaska. My daughter sent me a text message last night to bring warm clothes and boot as the temps are in the 20s and 30s. Exactly what I expected for the...
View ArticleFrom Snowy Alaska
I have been here a week tomorrow now and haven't accomplished much in the way of tatting. My daughter has five dogs, two bloodhounds, two basset and a chocolate lab and guess what.......they decided...
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Baby Shower
It is a cold crisp day in the interior of Alaska. I believe I saw the thermometer at -13 this morning. But it is toasty warm in the house. The picture is a view from the front of my daughter's home....
View ArticleGoing Home
My time here in Alaska is almost over. I will be going home tomorrow, we are leaving her about 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. I don't fly out until 10:15 tomorrow night and I won't actually get home until...
View ArticleWhere has the time gone?
I can't believe it has been two months since I have posted anything. Wow, where has the time gone. I have been busy, although not using my shuttle! By accident I picked up my knitting needles and have...
View ArticleWhat's New......
Nothing in the way of tatting going on at my house. Not even any knitting right now. Some sewing and a lot of weeding. I have five big raised garden beds and four small ones. The weather has been so...
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Yes, I am Tatting Again!
So, it is official. Summer is over and Fall has arrived. Most of the harvesting has been completed and the canning should be done. Now it is time to get those winter projects in line. Which is exactly...
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More Booties
I seem to be locked into bootie mania! Here are three more pairs of baby booties. So far this fall I have completed six pair and I am still making baby booties. The first six are in the mail to...
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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...
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Tuesday's Tatting
Here is the second row on the baby bonnet. It has shaped nicely, but it is very small. This fits loosely over a golf ball, I don't think it will ever fit a baby. I checked my directions and I did...
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Christmas Presents
Christmas giving is over for this year, at least in my family that is. We met at my sister's and I gave out all of my gifts for my family. sorry to say this year I had no tatting gifts only crocheted...
View ArticleWhat is the other side?
I feel like I have gone over to the other side. The other side of crafting? I have been knitting up a storm the last couple of weeks. I finished my crocketed Christmas Ball Gowns for this year and...
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Yes, I have a project!
I have not given up on my tatting at all. Just to keep you up to date, I have decided to join the fun with Jane and her new TIAS. Here is my first installment.You can follow along on her Blog...
View ArticleThe Year isn't over yet!
Oh, my, I haven't been on here since January 2011. Must be I have been busy this year. I haven't done a lot of tatting this year, mostly been on a knitting binge. But, I am going to be teaching a...
View ArticleI am teaching tatting!
So, I am teaching a hands on tatting class in Tawas, Michigan. Last Tuesday was the first class and I had two students show up. I had a lot of samples to show them and we discussed some of the...
View ArticleThe Final Hours of 2012
Well, 2011 is drawing to a close and a lot has happened this year. I have a new grandson and a great granddaughter. Spent a month in Alaska. Neglected my garden and let it go to ruin hope to do...
View ArticleSo I haven't done a good job!
Here it is January 30, 2012 and I am just getting around to updating my blog. So much for weekly updates. As to my other lists of things I hope to accomplish. I have finished 3 of the 12 hats. One...
View ArticleWhere has the time gone?
Spring is here, sort of! We had two weeks of almost 80 degrees and then winter came back! We are having more seasonable weather and I am feeling sorry for all the plants that were tricked into...
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