Showing posts with label HDT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HDT. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

nuntium centesimum vicesimum tertium (123rd post) basket

I really enjoyed making a basket and doing split chains in April and managed this one after Easter.  It's from the same little pamphlet from Tatsy (I got it maybe 20 years ago?) where I made this from.
motif #8

The thread is glorious HDT from Anika who dyed it specially for me for shamrocks but I loved it so much I had to make something else with it too!

On Pinterest (evil, time-sucking invention), I saw this and thought I could do it with my vintage threads from Aunt Rose-E.  My sister, queen of finding everything anyone could ever need, found these large Vlasic pickle jars for me.  But I think I need a 4th one!  Or two smaller ones. 

I'm pleased with this instead of just having them stuffed in a drawer in a closet.  My younger daughter and I had a fun time deciding which colors went where.  She still disagrees...


Thursday, February 28, 2013

nuntium centesimum decimum quintum (115th post) happy and sad

I love getting mail, always have.  One of the more dreary things as an adult is getting all that other stuff in the mail. On the other hands there are wonderful things like this which balance the whole works!
I'm the lucky keeper of Angeline's book for the next few weeks.  Krystle sent along some of her gorgeous HDT and the loveliest motif was included too.


Then the sad-- well, it's not too sad really.  About two weeks ago, we took all of the 7th graders to northern Minnesota for a 3-day friendship retreat.  It's a lot of work but so rewarding and fun too.  This year's kids are really outstanding and made the whole thing even better than usual.  But on Valentine's day I was walking to the dining hall for our evening program and fell on the ice.  Fell hard and so fast.  Truly I did not know what was happening until I was down.  My hand hurt a lot.  And kept hurting until Tuesday morning when it hurt so bad I was almost in tears.  Off to my doc who x-rayed it- yay!  Nothing broken.  But to help with healing (maybe a damaged tendon), I get to wear this.
For 10 days,  really nothing to whine about but there won't be tatting unless it's all chains.  The thread catches on the velcro on the thumb for rings.
Maybe I'll get entirely caught up for school- bwahahahahaa!


Thursday, November 8, 2012

nonâgêsimum septimum (97th post) Flowering Quatrain again

HDT.

I say it with reverence.

Boy do I love it or what?  I love it all.  I do.  I get happy just looking at it.

This is Marilee Rockley's Hydrangea Dark and Frivole's Flowering Quatrain.  What a pleasing pattern to tat, what a glorious colorway!  I'm in love.

Don't forget to vote in the Tatting Corner contest.

If you haven't yet, consider entering my little giveaway, the book Ruins of Lace is up for grabs.  Details here.