Doodles

Are the temperatures high enough?   In the distance, I hear some thunder.   Maybe we will have some much needed rain tonight.    Meanwhile, some doodles:

The dragonfly is Jon's pattern, tho

I use two shuttles for split rings - and

didn't add beads.

It is a lovely shape for a dragonfly.

Motifs

Edited 1/14/2013

Motif #9

( pg 23) - on the left

Motif #10

(pg 24)  - on the right

Used LizBeth Size 20, color 684

both patterns from Mini Tats by Patti Duff.

(8.) Motif from MiniTats by Patti Duff

Lizbeth Size 20 Col. 628.

I plan to use this with a kanzashi flower.  I find this

so interesting - and think it would be great with a fabric

flower (and possibly a button center)

I tried motif #9 + messed up.

I tatted half one night, picked it up in the morning,

and joined at the wrong picot ...

trying it again.

Flower Doodles

(Not sure what fibers/sizes left on shuttles)

Actually, I have a few doodles from

the past couple of days.

Putting them into the mail by the end of the week.

tatted hearts

Tatted Heart

Size 40 LizBeth Col. 145

And some doodles ....

Size 20 LizBeth Col. 628

Retail Therapy .....

Marilee Rockley's

on-line Shuttle Tatting Course.

(Blogging at Yarnplayer's Tatting Blog)

This beautiful tatting bag arrived

in today's mail.

It is from DS9 Designs 

(their web site).

I am so fond of this bag - it was 'gotta have' at first sight,

and it is so pretty!!!!   

I pre-ordered this book -

Tatting Collage by Lindsay Rogers.

(Tho I noticed, Diane, blogging at

Lace-Lovin' Librarian - already has her copy!)

Sewing Machine Day

Sewing Machine Day

When : June 13th and September 10th

Sewing Machine Day celebrates a very important invention ----- the sewing machine. The first sewing machines were made in France in the 1830s. It wasn't until 1846, that they were patented in the U.S. What a great invention. Prior to it's creation, clothes items were sewn together by hand...stitch by stitch.

People who know how to use a sewing machine are dwindling in number. Our mothers and grandmothers had a sewing machine in the house. They used it, too. But, look around your house. Do you have a sewing machine? Chance are, the answers is no.

If you have a sewing machine, enjoy today making things with it. If not, consider picking up sewing as a hobby.

per Holiday Insights Web Site:   Sewing Machine Day

Have you read or heard about Dewey?

I've been reading

Dewey the library cat

am about 1/2 way thru the book.

(and there is a 2nd book, too)

It is kinda cute - in a library kat sort of way.

CBS Sunday Morning - video:

Night Circus

I am nearing the end of this novel - I need to find time to finish it in one sitting.   It is a novel of magic, not usually my type of book; however, well written, and I find myself interested in the main characters, as well as the supporting cast!   I wonder what is going to happen to all of them - if this will have a good enough ending, or if it spills into another book, part two?.    

The Night Circus

by Erin Morgenstern

happy birthday to you ...

Tee shirt from DD.

Happy Birthday Alex!!!

Cake he had yesterday at PNC.

Charming My Little Pony them!

Awesome shirt ; )