motif #11

Pulled the basic pattern from be-stiched. It was a earring pattern that I was gonna do as an earring but messed up :) I added my pretty sparkly new beads to the picots and the loop at the bottom (there was supposed to be three loops) but I don't know. I might add a pin to the back but right now its just cute. I was gonna do a lot more tatting today but I'm all shaky cause I didn't eat bfast soon enough after I got up so everythings all wacky...

I can KNIT :)

I can KNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! I promise the piece is actually squarish and not as weird looking as it seems but it was all rolly and wouldn't photograph square :)

tatted cross, motif #10

I promise I have been tatting!!!! the knitting and corking aren't TOTALLY distracting!!!! Last night at tatting class I borrowed a Birget Phelps pattern adn tatted up the button cross. GOnna have to do many more. I really think I'd like to give some of these as Christmas gifts as ornaments. I think one or two of these and some different snowflakes would be a nice small gift for pp. I'm also looking at some beaded earing patterns for some friends :)

Oh this is in Lizbeth Caribean size 20 :)

inspiration

So.....apparently one new craft at a time isn't enough...LOL. So having been inspired by TatsKool I have begun what she calls Corking. Around here you look for a french knitter but still its the same thing!!!! So anyway....after I finally dug through the gazillion piles of various sizes of thread and yarn I began playing w/ my new toy. I started w/ a simple white yarn to see what I was doing. After playing I tried to make a two colored bit but couldn't figure it out :( booooo....then I got creative hehehehehe

I figured out that I could use a smaller thread, like a 20, as a contrasting color against the white. Now I don't have a lot of thread that i have MORE than enough of to playu w/ (OK I do but didn't wanna use the lizbeth thats for tatting) so instead I pulled out one of the several balls of 10 FLORA that I don't like tatting w/. Now I have no idea how or where I'm going to use a white and pink cording but I'll have it. Part of the orginial inspiration was the idea of sewing the yarns of easy to creat cording into a rug. Mom wants white rugs and you can't FIND them!!!! So i can make them....maybe :) I'll try to turn the white and pink into a rug maybe :)

HandyHands

SO I don't normally do Tatting Tea Tuesday but I got a box from HandyHands today so I have a post :)

So I was bad. I admit this. I ordered from Handy Hands. THe excuse was I should have a backup #7 needle just in case....yeah its a good excue right???? But since I had an excuse I usedit to buy the needle threader they hav (we'll see if it works better and is less loseable) and a few balls of Lizbeth 40 :) I got Falling Leaves, Victorian Red and Harvest Orange Med. Yes I will give mom some since she has the larger as well and can play w/ the double layered dahlia with it :) hehehe....ohhh and I got a new thread to try, I wanted a light purple smaller than a 20 for a wedding present idea so I got a ball of Fincrochet 30 to play w/ and hope it works!!!! and of course who can order from HH w/out ordering a book :) This is one MamaJo has and after I looked at it and the multiple crosses I wanted it...again mom will borrow :) The cat didn't come in the box but he HAD to be in the picture so there's the cat..lol

motif #9

For motif #9 I have Heather's pattern Hearts for Tracy. This one is Lizbeth Dr Purple in 20. I have one started in Flora 10 but not much is done. I want to finish the other one this weekend and get them both sent off to Tracy on Monday. If anyone hasn't heard its a fundraiser for a young woman havinga double mastectomy next week.

Packages

I have been package happy recently!!!!

Up 1st are the cutouts I ordered for thread winders. I have maple leaves, 6pt stars, teaddy bears, flowers w/ various petal #'s, shamrocks, and angel wings. The maple leaves and wings may be a bit small but we'll see. Up next for all these is paint!!!! WOOHOO....

Next up is etsy heaven!!!! This is a dangerous place.....I found these LOVELY crocheted slippers and HAD to have them.....the origianl plan was socks but these are better :) They are from CocoaBeans.

Also from CocoaBeans are these lovely dishcloths. I've wanted to try them for a while I so got them!!! I didn't get a pic of the rest of the package :( But CocoaBeans sent me some marvelous soap samples is fig and vanilla!!!!

The last items are from RedEye. He makes the coolest chainmail jewelry. I saw his work on another blog (i forgot whos!!!!! EEKS) and started drooling then and there....it jsut took me a while before I had and excuse to buy :) I got them for Halloween but they got here the day after i left for Birmingham for 4 days :( But I've worn the earring all week and the necklace several times too :) Next I want the braclet w/ the purple rings added....oooooooooooooooooooo....Just not right now :(

Halloween Costumes!!!

1st up is Marco. Do you like his costume? Brian (the guy in my life) used food coloring and dyed the puppy green. And the puppy dyed the carpet and the bathroom green. Marco was more upset by the bath than the color. He got more upset when Friday he had to take a bath to wash OUT the food coloring (or most of it!!!)






Here's the eye make up. I used a costume/stage makeup glue that you can add glitter to. Shockingly enough its called......wait for it....Glitter Glue!!!! I wanted to use it to attach tatting to me but it didn't work :(

Oh and the hair was supposed to be blue....its black w/ blue highlights...NOT blue. Then again after two days it was green....kinda matched LadyShuttleMakers Treebeard HDT.....interesting but not my goal.





This is the pic I took w. my phone. Not really a family pic is it!!! There is one tatted piece attached to me. That one had to stick to cover the HUGE cat scratch I got when bathing the cat (he smelled and had a kitty litter butt eeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww) Outside of the overhang issue its actually a good pic of me. And this was the night I learned who the corset will NOT work upside down. It was an accident but boy was it a PAINFUL one!!!!! Its rightside up by this time :)







My friend Manda took some pics for me at her house of the whole costume :) I forgot the camera so I used Manda's :) I LOVE the gloves I'm wearing. Got them on etsy from Fran's Knitted and Crocheted Things. I really loke these....wear them tons :)










This is Ugg the cave man pimp...or as mom said the blinged out cave man. I made the mistake when asked about cave man appropriate fabric to say purple animal print. Brian found zebra and fuzzy purple edging. I blinged out the club, gourd, and sandles. I had fabric glue w/ me for the attaching tatting attempts. Anyway he picked out the costume and accesories I just added the plastic glittery stones he picked out :)








Here we are together....this pic might get printed and framed....I don't have many good ones of us together (we both dislike cameras...)











One Firday I got to see my friend Krissy and this guy. Andrew....I bought Krissy lunch and then got to play w. Andrew till he squirmed/fussed and then he went back to mama!!!! Then she decided she needed to eat and passed him back to me to feed.....

halloween costume

So here's the final? costume. The wierd looking drape is the shirt I'll wear under the corset. It's a period correct corset made of heavy canvas, you wear something under it!!! The shirt is a rich purple with a deep v from and back to show off during Rocky Horror!!! The skirt is teal with a long curved slit. There's and under skirt in white.

Here's a close up of the skirt. I attached some of the flowers and a dahlia medallion and some butterflies. I decided at the end that I wanted to tie in the lace I added to the corset to the skirt so I glued some on the curve and so it didn't blend in to the white I ran a thread through in color and then added some gemstones from my box of stuff :)

There are 4 decorated gussets on the corset (theres actually 8 or 10 total but I only deal w/ 4 for decorating cause two are almost under my arms and 4 are on the back)

I had pics of all 4 but after one kept being deleted I gave up in it being on here!

The 1st pic is on one of the top gussets and the other 2 are the hip gussets. All 4 have the same lace the top have the lace running horizontal in layers and the bottom one run on the diagonal (like i need to add ruffles for my hips to be larger!) Anyway I tacked flowers and butterflys to all 4 gussets in the lace. I like the effect. its different and most important removable so it doesn't show under my white Civil War dress!!!!

I have a pair of Raspberry Sorbet earrings I made this week (My first earings!!!!!!) I'm so proud! I'll be wearing these and possible a pair of chainmail earrings I ordered if they get here in time (tomorrow) :)

I'm also planning to attach some extra flower pendants to my chest. If I can get it to stick. I've got fun makeup as usual and its gonna be a blast. I'll try and get some pics before the festivities begin thursday night :)

LETS DO THE TIME WARP!!!!!!!!!!!

fun? project

I have a feeling this will be a long project. The yellow cap of beads I'm holding is only PART of what I have. THe rest are in the Yellow container in the corner of the Pic, theres about 2 inches of beads in that container.

Now shall I explain the project?? These are sead beads that I have had since...ummmmm, Jr High I think. Anyway at some point I just DUMPED them all in together. So I have sead beads of various sizes and colors mixed together. As the pic shows I have two glass jars. One jar is labeled Beads Needle #7 and one is Beads Needle #5. So two jars and LOTS of beads. The project is basically me using the #7 needle to see if they will slide over the it. If the beads fit thye go in the #7 jar, and if they don't they go in the #5 jar.....sounds fun doesn't it? Anyone wanna do it FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE????? Alright I guess I'll keep at it myself :(