Last Friday, the Tollway Tatters gathered. Please visit
Lace-Lovin' Librarian (blog) for more info and photos. It is a fun, creative time with oodles of chatting,
sharing tatting fibers, sharing glass pieces
for tatted ice drops (my color selection tripled), gifting hand made tools (see the needle w/tatted tail for un-knotting), sharing charms,
talking about the latest shuttles (ie
Clover Japan,
acrylics by Rita, shapes, sizes) , snacking, and gifts!!!
Sunlit shuttle embellished by Denise. Had been in a copper color 'egg' container w/goodies.
Nice to catch up on the news and always ... tatting. For me, emptying shuttles.
Lace-lovin' Librarian aka Diane, put
several origami pouches together (rainbow of colors) a few years back. She thought we could embellish them with tatting! I selected a green one, and realized, once home, that I gift most of my tatting and didn't have much for the bag ; )
Fast forward . . . when my MIL passed away, she seemed to keep all the tatting I ever made for her in small frames and
a special box (I stitched the top).
First Step pattern is by Genny Morrow.
I pulled out the origami pouch, fused the tatting, added a (made by Diane)
crochet button, a few beads and charms ... and before I knew it, the whole thing was covered!
main parts of the bag .....
the sides ......
On April 7th, I went to the International Quilt Festival. The quilts were incredible!
Beautifully / artfully displayed. Among the cool things in the many booths ... I purchased 2 beige shuttles ...
they were pretty scruffed and dirty w/awful gritty fiber. So, I cleaned them up a bit!
I also found a vintage pattern book.
need to get a few 'promised' items made up and mailed this week. Happy Spring.
