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Sunday, March 11, 2012

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

7 comments:

  1. Awww Mary! I can't believe you mentioned me on your post! I'm so flattered! :-) Thank you so much! Your tatted pieces look great! Good luck miniaturizing it. I have yet to do that also! xoxo, Amy

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    1. Hi Amy, You're very welcome. Did you watch the video? I hope that with practise that needle tatting becomes as easy as it looks in the video.
      A Big Mini Hug.

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  2. Mary, thank you for mentioning my blog here, so sweet of you!! Mini hugs from Sanne

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  3. Seguro que te quedaran genial, eres una artista.....animo.
    besitos ascension

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  4. I'll have to look on youtube. I bought a book in the 80s and had trouble following and didn't do much. I still have the first thread wound in the shuttle! Gill x

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  5. Mary, I just thought I'd mention - you have the 'robot' words to decipher on your blog! Gill x

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    1. Thank you Gill, I've changed that, I'd rather not make people go away in frustration. lol.

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