Teddy Bears

 This is what I've been doing lately. I think I'm up to 10 now. This is a Teddy Bear pattern by Monica Hahn. The more recent ones have beads. Something I haven't done much. But it's coming along.

Summer Solitude

I've been playing in the water colors lately.

Blanket done.

I just finished this C2C child's size blanket. I'd started it two years ago and was only half done. I finally did the other half. I still have lots of yarn to make one or two more. It's cold out so I don't mind an afghan on my lap for a few weeks more.

Apple tree

This is my latest project. I've tatted apple blossoms and blutterflies. I painted the tree with water color. There's a little spacer between the glass and picture. It gave it a little depth.
Getting a few things done these days as there's no place to go.

Anybody out there?

I'm starting to wonder if my followers are getting my blogs. I haven't had a comment since before December.

I've been sitting at home lately. Partially because of the virus scare. Our pool is closed and church services were cancelled today.
Anyway here are some of the cards I've been tatting up. Some are from Lindsay Roger's book One-Shuttle tatting. Others from Mary Maynard's book Tatting Rings of Flowers.

Regal Dragon

A lady friend wanted another dragon for her 3 years old grandson. He likes to watch Mike the Knight. Mike has a couple dragon friends. This one is Squirt. He sprays water and makes things clean. It's a very cute kids show.

Regal Dragon

A dear friend has a grandson who likes to watch Mike the Knight. She asked me to make this set up for him. I'm hoping to paint a background soon. 

2 unicorns, an aeroplane and a rocket ship

This is what I've been playing at lately. I'm thinking about putting them on cards. The aeroplane is from Jane Eborall and the rest is from Martha Ess's books.

Teapots, hearts and teddy

This is part of what I've been doing lately. The weather is very cold out there. Good days to stay inside and play at my tatting. Martha Ess is the designer for the tea pots and bear in her book Flights of Fantasy.  I do like her designs They are well written and she includes a good graph to help keep one on track.

Two more kittens and a bunny

I've enjoyed this pattern. I even figured out how to put long ears and a fluffy tail on more for a bunny. I still like the flower kittys best.

Still having Fun

The top is a kitten design from Dotori. I bought it on Etsy. I thought today that it would be cute with a little bow on it's neck.
Next is the first pair of earrings I've ever done. The pattern is the first section from Jane's bookmark.
The third picture is another sea horse. They are always fun and when I don't feel like having to concentrate it's simple to whip up.

Keeping busy

I have lots of pictures to show. I've been having loads of fun tatting and painting. The top is the finished snowflakes in a flat glass ball.
The next was a fun experiment. I had rescued a bunch of beads that had the look of rocks. Silly but fun. Then there's the old 65 year old still silly enough to wear Christmas ornaments in her ears for our annual art club Christmas party. It was a fun night.
The purple bells (yes they're purple) is an annual thing I do for a friend. She likes to give her daughter 3 purple ornaments every Christmas.
The last is my latest art class. It was a wintry night, so not all the students showed up and I got lots of advice. Just got the frame on it this morning.  It was hard to photograph as there were lots of other lights reflecting on the glass.

More Christmas trees

I'm experimenting with Christmas trees. Trying to decide which is easiest to make. I think the middle one. I painted sparkle on the white ones and the middle one is metallic thread.

Christmas Bells

This scan didn't turn out very well. This design is from Eva Antonucci. I used Lizbeth metallic. I added little jingle bells to the bottom. I'm working on some other metallic Christmas decorations. But I do like this pattern. More later.

I've been tatting bookmarks for our Christmas market.

I've been making sets of these for wine glass coasters. I hope to attend our Christmas  Farmers Market this November. I missed out last year because of an emergency retina surgery. So this year I'm all heped up to try again. I'm also working on colorful bookmarks. I'll show them next time.

Runner Finished

It took me 3 months but I finally finished this dresser runner. It's from Tatting Theory and Patterns by Jan Stawasz.

Sandy's Scarf

This is from the Helping Hands Winter 2019 news letter. I just kept going as it was designed to actually be a scarf. I had planned on a 5 foot runner for my buffet. It's a lot of tatting. Then at an estate sale last week I found a crocheted runner. So here's where I ended with this project. It will get used someplace. 

Butterfly and tulip garden

I've been dabbling in Gouache paint. I like having watercolor paint that I can put a light color over dark if I need to. I've tatted a bunch of butterflies to play in the flower garden.