Fair, Glasses, HDT, and still settling in...

So, with a title like that, I shouldn't have to say to much, right?

I entered Livi's Doily in the local fair.  It won a blue 1st place ribbon!

The doily is not finished yet, but I am most certainly taking a bit of a break from it. 

I also entered this hair clip.  It's an abbreviated version of the flower in Mary Konior's Tatting with Visual Patterns.

This won a 2nd place ribbon. :o)

It looks like I passed my bad vision genes down to Livi.  I finally got around to getting her eyes checked and sure enough she needed glasses. 

She rocks them, don't you think?

I got a new colorway dyed up.  I tend to shy away from the warmer colors, such as red and orange.  I don't usually feel as confident with them.  Anticipation for Fall put me in a mood for rich warm colors though.

At first, I thought it would be a nice leaf color, but I decided it would make a nice floral color as well. :o)

And as the title suggests, we are still attempting to settle in around here.  I find it difficult to find opportunities to get on the computer.  We have a plethora of laptop computers but I do my best work on a desktop.  I'm sure it will all work out eventually! 

Coming Back Slowly!

Well, we are officially in Knoxville.  So, if you live near here, please email me.  I would love to meet people in the area.

Anyway, with looking for a job and getting settled in, I haven't had much tatting time. I have finished a few items though.

And!! This week, I finally got back to dyeing!  It was nice to get back to it!  I didn't know how it would work out at the new apartment.  So, it'll be slow and I am still getting settled in.  Moving from a house to a small apartment is quite the adjustment.

Here is my first colorway from Knoxville, which I have called Birds of a Feather.  I did a sample of it while tatting Jane Eborall's Reversible Motif.  It was quite the fun motif!  I paired Birds of a Feather with Lizbeth's Gold.  :o)

Livi loves it here in Knoxville!  We do miss Dadda so much though!!  He is still back home in Collierville.  But!  We will get to go see him this weekend and we are so excited!

Here Livi and I are walking through the park to find the perfect place to play soccer.

and she's already on a baseball team!! 

short note.... and a couple of annoucements

I will be so glad to get moved and be able to sit, tat, and blog again!!

But for now... I'm going to try one more thing to try to clear the etsy shop so that I can start fresh at the new place.  There's nothing like clearing out thread from my collection to get me back to dyeing :o)

So, now, through the end of the week, "Movingtruck" will save you 25% in my shop!



OH!!! And how could I possibly forget!! I graduate this weekend!!!
I graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Biology with a minor in Chemistry!!
Woohoo!!

Now, it's time to look for a job and get ready for some post-bacc education. :o)

Free shipping and an interesting predicament...

First off!  I'm offering Free Shipping this week in the Etsy shop using the code "freeshipping"

I am trying to get everything together for the move and it would help greatly to move some more thread.  I'm so scared that they are going to get lost in the move somehow.  Hopefully I'm just being paranoid though. :o)

Next.....

So, when I started this doily of Livi's , I couldn't be bothered to actually look at the original pattern.  I mean, if Tatting with a 4 Square, doesn't have patterns, and I've already tatted one of the pieces... then why look at the original picture again, right?

So, I just looked on to doily I did last year for reference.  That is, until I got further on this one than I did the last one.  Then I broke out the book to make sure there weren't extra stitches slipped in that I had forgotten. 

I flipped through the book, didn't see the pattern.  Flipped back through... still on doily that looked like mine.  At the point I was very puzzled. Then I looked at the first doily in the book and suddenly remembered what had happened!

Last year, I wanted to make this doily and I really liked the triangles that were created with the negative space.  But those triangles were added until like row 15.  And, I was NOT going to tat 15 rows.

This is really all well and good except that Livi wants the doily to be bigger... so I will just keep on, making educated guesses how and where to add extra stitches.  

Or maybe I'll come up with something different all together.... who knows!

:o)

Livi's doily update

Got batteries for my camera! YAY!

So, here is an overdue update of Livi's doily.  It's going to be quite bigger than the one I made last year.  Livi will make sure of that! lol

So far the colors are (from inside to outside): Cream, Sugar Plum, Purple medium, Pink Medium, Navy Blue, Sugar Plum, Cream, Raspberry Pink Medium, Seagreen Light, Purple Medium, Pink Medium, Raspberry Pink Medium. 

OR!!! 610, Sugar Plum HDT, 632,622,654,Sugar Plum HDT, 610,624,686,632,622,624

Those numbers correlate to Lizbeth's numbering sytem, of course, and I've used size 40, per (my) usual! :o)

You can get your own Sugar Plum HERE!

Livi has told me that I will be able to use the Sugar Plum again, but not yet. AND she doesn't want it to be on the outside round.  She's being quite picky.

I will say that I have had to limit her on color choices though.  She's has asked to put red, yellow and lime green in it.  

I talked her out of them though and promised her a doily one day that has all of my solid colors in it. :o) 

Rainbowlicious!

This photo is actually from the last batch, but it looks almost identical this time around. :o)

I have both size 20 and size 40 this time!

I'm excited, I'm working on a small piece with it now.  I need batteries for my camera though or I'd show ya :o)

How would YOU go about this?

I have some very precious doilies that need washing and very likely, blocking.  These doilies are from my grandmother and my great grandmother.  They are both crochet.  The plan is to wash, block, and frame them so that my Mom can give them away to her brothers and sisters as presents.  So, how would you go about it?

As you will, they are quite dirty.  Unfortunately, we had a house fire in 2004, so, the dirt that is on them is probably soot.

Of course, I would like to get this done before we move in August, but I don't want to rush them either.

They are gorgeous, aren't they?