Welcome

I want to send a warm welcome to

Sanne of  Sannen vintilla - In My Attic  who is having a giveaway on her lovely blog.  Her followers have the chance  to win some very cute minis, a fish in a bowl,  a jar of irises, a cuddle cat and dog toy.  Jaynie hopes that we have some good luck to win, she would really like a pet fish.   If you spend some time looking at Sanne's older posts you will find many beautiful minis and lots of cute characters with interest stories.

I've tried a new craft, needle tatting.   I bought a book that came with 4 needles and a threader, it has general directions and a few patterns.  The only other thing that was needed was thread.  I used a #5 needle and #10 crochet thread for the flower pendant and butterfly.  I was getting something wrong following the directions in the book so I looked on youtube and found this video for making the flower pendant.  After I worked along with the video a few times I finally got this pendant.  Then I went back to a pattern in the book, this time it only took me 3-4 tries to get the butterfly.  I had a hard time getting the picot stitches (those little loops) even and keeping the stitches from twisting but I think  that I now have the basics down fairly well.   I think these look nice but if you want to see some very nice tatting,  visit Amy at  Crafter's Delights .    She does shuttle tatting and has  made some beautiful earrings that you really should see.   I'm hoping that I can work out a pattern that I can shrink down using a smaller needle and finer thread to make some miniature doilies.  Wish me luck, if it works out I may have doilies to share.  


Thank you for visiting, Mary