Le Blog de Frivole
It's mostly about tatting!
Sunday, 28 May 2023
Hanky Edging Completed
Friday, 19 May 2023
New Gift Hanky
Someone has a special birthday coming up and she likes pinks so I'm making the one-shuttle edging again (see link on the pattern page). I didn't have a lot of time and this seemed a reasonably quick pattern to make. The colour of the hanky is an unusual shade of pink but I found I was able perfectly to match it with Lizbeth's Shell Pink Lt.
Back to tatting! I need to get this finished soon.
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Hanky Edging Completed
I finished the green edging for my mother-in-law. It's simple but effective and the shape appeals to me, like little shells.
Sunday, 15 January 2023
New Handkerchief
My mother-in-law really likes hankies and always has one in her handbag or her pocket. It's been too long since I made her a new hanky so as her birthday is coming up, out came my shuttles to tat an edging. I was going to go for something more complex but in the end the shape of this simple design appealed to me - it's from Ann Orr's Tatting Book No. 35 revised. I am tatting it straight onto the handkerchief, attaching it as I go.
Thursday, 12 January 2023
HAPPY NEW YEAR! (and apologies regarding patterns)
Happy New Year everyone, I do hope you had a wonderful holiday with family and friends and that 2023 is off to a good start!
I want to start my blogging new year with an apology: over the last few years I've regularly had people contact me to say they were not able to access my free patterns. I couldn't figure out what the problem was so I sent patterns to people who emailed me directly but... I had not visited the gmail account linked to this blog for some time and have just found many many emails from readers asking for access to patterns and I didn't know they were there and I didn't answer them!
So MANY apologies to all the people who contacted me via the google docs system to ask for access to patterns and I unwittingly ignored you! I have now re-uploaded all the links on my patterns page and I'd be grateful if people could test links and tell me if they now work.
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Time for Snowflakes
It's going to be the 1st of December tomorrow! I started making my Christmas cards for family and friends back home and as always I like to enclose a new snowflake but sadly this year, I've not had time to work on a new pattern. So I had a look in my drawer and found all the sample snowflakes I'd made and then found the variations I'd worked on for my 2019 snowflakes. The one below was version no. 2 and I decided to re-tat it.
Monday, 31 October 2022
More Giant Tatting
Hello Everyone!
Sorry I have become a bit of an infrequent poster of late! There seems to be so many things to keep up with that I don't get around to posting on my blog as often as I used to, or as often as I'd like.
I'm working on large tatting again at the moment, worked with 3mm cotton cord.