Liyarra's Tatting Nook

I have tried this pattern a couple of times and it has beaten me...Mainly due to pattern attention deficit issues... Someone on InTatters was searching for the pattern and it reminded me that it was on my 'Nemesis List' and, being in THAT frame of mind (you know - the "oh no you don't....not going to sit there and laugh at me and say you can't be done"..frame of mind) I decided to give it another try. This time I used some of my precious Rainbow Lite hand dyed thread from TatsKool so I couldn't woos out on it without wasting this precious thread (and the $$ associated in getting it in the first place)... So here it is... TA DA!!! You have to watch where you are in the pattern pretty carefully but a photocopy of the pattern and a highlighter solved that problem.

Someone asked me the other day about my tatting history.....so read at your own risk of boredom!! I learned to tat at the Numurkah Community Centre in northern Victoria in 1999. Diana Eckett from Melbourne was the teacher and the class was 2 half days. The cost was $40 plus threads. I saw it on the notice board and, having wanted to learn lacemaking for years, I enrolled...... Now what noone told me was that tatting and bobbin lace are NOT the same thing!!! Diana handed out these funny looking plastic thingys and some thread and I thought… Ahhh…......Earth to stupid?…........I don't think this class is what you think it is……. (But I HAD paid and it all looked very interesting …...so I stayed and played. Thank goodness!!) On the first day we learned to flip the stitch using two colors of wool and using finger tatting as though for a chain so we could see the color change when the flip occurred. We then progressed to the ring once we could flip the stitch consistently. After getting ...

Today I found the most beautiful thread I bought from Brenda (Bre-Aly Threads on Etsy) a couple of years ago....problem is I cannot remember what I bought it for LOL. It must have been something special because it is size 10 and I never tat with 10.... Any suggestions? Have three 175 yard balls and it is a gorgeous soft blue/purple combination. Pic coming soon!

Some days are worth getting up early for... A thumbs up from Nathan to Ben...probably cos I managed not to scare the crap out of him.... Right about now I am spewing that the flight has ended..... Not to worry though - Ben decided to go for a fly after I finished my lesson so I got to go up again.....and relax this time!!!

Oh yeah...forgot I need to finish this challenge too!! So here is Bookmark number 12 ... Jane Eborall's Flowery SCMR bookmark which I ADORE!! http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/Flowerbookmark.pdf Done in Bre-Aly size 30 thread (hand dyed from Bre-Aly on Etsy) Another UFO bites the dust!! Bookmark 13 Julie Patterson's Spring Flowers Bookmark http://www.ringoftatters.org.uk/patterns/jpatterson/jp.html My "in flight" pattern LOL. Done in Pansy Perfect Quilter (about an 80) Bookmarks 14 and 15 Ok - maybe cheating a little using the same pattern but I LOVE the pattern. Top one is in Altin Basak and the bottom one is in Lizbeth Caribbean. Just needed tassels.....all better now! AHA!! Now thanks to MaureenL I know who to credit the pattern to. When I did it the first time and put it up here I had no idea who it was and did ask but all I got told was that it was an adaptation of an old Anna magazine pattern. So.... THANKYOU Jane McLellan for an absolutely wonder...

Thought I might just catalogue my tatting shuttles. Thinking it would take...oh...an hour or so?? Think again sunshine!!! This is just the start..... This is without adding my precious ones to the table!! Not even going to try to work out how much I have spent. But then there are 30 "working" Clovers in this lot...... not telling how many shuttles AREN'T on the table LOL. 6 Feb 2020 - I laugh at your silly idea that this is a lot of shuttles....pffffffffff......

Searching today for my wayward shuttle collection I found a few UFOs so I thought I had better spend the next few weeks finishing things and regain my "Good Girl" status of having no unfinished pieces..... So here is the first to be completed...started way back in 2010...oops..... The pattern is Siobhan by Judith Connors Thread is Anchor perle 12.