Liyarra's Tatting Nook

Ok I am back to tatting on here. Still feeling broken and missing Jamie terribly. Tatting always reminds me of him so I have been avoiding it. But I need to get back into it for my own sanity and to honour the man that supported every single ds I did while we were together. To help me along my way I decided to try AnneB's Christmas Heart. Red for the last 23 wonderful years. Blue for how my heart is feeling. Green for the beginning of the future. So here they are. Red: thread is Altin Basak 40. Blue is Lizbeth 40 and finally: Green is BabyLo 30 - lovely to tat with but unfortunately broke for me a couple of times. As usual a wonderful pattern from the very generous and talented Anne Bruvold. Thanks Anne - it is always a pleasure to tat one of your patterns.

I have not posted here in a while. I have been tatting  -  I have things to show for sure. But I need to express myself today. This is not tatting related so skip if you want. It is me needing to put a horrible event in to perspective and gain control to move on. On the 10th July I  lost the one most important thing in my life quite unexpectedly and nothing has really seemed worthwhile. To those of you who knew Jamie in person or through his (usually wicked) forays into the chats on MSN you will know how much he loved life, a good laugh, good company and that he gave me his incredible support in my chosen vice - tatting. To those of you who did not know him. You have missed knowing one of the most charming, intelligent, caring and loving individuals that has ever walked this earth. I have to post here - my voice to the outside world. I have to have an avenue to express publicly how much this man meant to me. Get it out there in words. But the words are so har...

Ok so it is NOT the pattern I said I was going to do for Motif 16. ..ah well... A while ago I did a very nice little blue motif. Before the challenge so it did not count. But it was nice so I tatted it and moved on to the next thing on the ever-increasing list... A few months later - I was looking for motifs to tat for the challenge when I came across this curious little blue motif and thought I might like to do it again. So I went to my trusty tatting diary to find out where it came from and SHOCK ....HORROR.....I had NOT even entered it! Was it Konior? NO. Was it from a Japanese book? NO. Where the heck did it come from? This was so very very not me with my obsession of recording everything I tat. So I started trying to find the pattern. No luck. So I went to InTatters and humbly asked for help. How embarrassing LOL The Pattern Hunter that can usually find even the more obscure patterns for people, couldn't find a simple motif that she tatted less than a year ago!!!! HA HA HA....

Sometimes you look at a pattern and say...yeah...THAT one. So you trawl for the pattern, get your head around it and off you go. Job done. And other times you wish you had stopped when you thought it looked good...cos really more ain't always better!! I was looking through Cas Arthur's website this week as I reloaded all my bookmarks and had a "I GOTTA TAT THIS" moment when I saw her background. (and Cas knows I pinch ideas from her ALL the time LOL) - if you have not had a look - go see Castats website - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~castats/ PLENTY there to drool over. You will see why I want to tat like Cas!!!!! I finally found where the pattern was and set about tatting it. First try was with a rather loud variegated which really did not show the pattern. So I toned it down a bit and grabbed some more appropriate olive green Perfect Quilter "Olivia" and off I went. The pattern is from Tatting a Potpourri of Patterns from Handy Hands. Round Medallion No.150...

...................about a special book!!!!! My good friend Ginny Weathers has been working her butt off this last year creating some really spectacular glass ball ornaments. They have won shows and always come up really well. So she decided to put them together in a book. working..thinking..tatting..resting..working..thinking..tatting -no time much to chat .. and so it went UNTIL it has finally all come together for her and she has published her FIRST book!!!! (Yeay Ginny!!) Now Ginny's dedication to tatting is something I have witnessed first hand. She stayed with us in 2006 and every morning you could find her up with the earliest of birds wandering around the farm with tatting in hand!! She has done some incredibly (mind bogglingly) large doilies that she then donated to the nursing home where she works and I would suspect that her tatting is never far from her hands wherever she goes. So it is nice to be able to brag about her book. (And I will cos I love it!) 12 Ornaments o...

Such a lovely night to tat.......LOL Here is MOTIF 14 Pattern is Motif 40 from TheTatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito. Thread is Venus size 40.

On a roll today - here is MOTIF 13 . Pattern is Musterteil - from the book Occhi-Schiffchenspitze- Frivolite by Langwieser and Scharowa. The thread is Lizbeth "Razzle Dazzle" size 40.