be wearing snowflake earrings! I just had to take a short moment to make myself a pair. This is Elizabeth Zipay's pattern and they are very quick to make.
I have now stiffened them and added a few sparkles too… and they look really nice on… really "snowflakey! :-)
The pattern in the background is Ground no. 22
from "Tatting" ed. by Thérèse de Dillmont
If anyone knows of a product that would make fabric (or thread) completely hard, I'd love to hear about it. I used PVA glue but that still leaves them bendable. Is there anything that goes really hard?
One of my very favourite books is "Tatting" from the DMC Library, edited by Thérèse de Dillmont. All the samples in the book are so perfectly tatted, I always find them very inspiring. I was just tidying my books and had a leaf through... and tatted these two little squares.
The one on the left is tatted in size 10 DMC Babylo and the one on the right in Lizbeth 20.
I also uploaded a new video on the single shuttle split ring (Shall I keep making them? Are there any specific techniques you'd like me to do?) This also shows finger-tatting so I probably won't be making another video specifically for that I don't think. I've been trying hard to improve the quality of my videos, so feedback is welcome. I'm wondering now about eventually re-doing the ones that I made with the red background... what do you think?
If you click on the picture above - clicking once will start the video
and clicking again will take you to Youtube -
where you can view the video in larger format
(and higher resolution if you wish)
