Pam

Pam

     I had bought, Pam Palmer's, latest book.  I love the cat on the front and had to tat it.

Sept

Sept

    The workbasket book is from the Sep issue.  Working on the next part.

Edging

Edging

     Finished the edging on the doily.  Now for the other components.  Here is another hint:  the magazine was published in 1960.

Finished

Finished

  
     Finished with the diamond motifs, now for the outer round.  This pattern is from a Workbasket magazine.   Do you know which one?

Connecting

Connecting

     Connecting the roses for a new doily.

Lanyard

Lanyard

     When I had gone to the tatting workshop, last year, we were given name badges.  Everyone had, beautiful, lanyards around their badges, except me.  They had little ribbons for us, who didn't have their own lanyards.  Here is what I came up with....

Mountain Air

Mountain Air

     We needed to get out of the house and into the mountain air.  Yes, we live in the heart of the mountains, but we wanted to go camping/fishing.  There's a beautiful lake, not far, with Mackinaw.  My sister, Jan and her husband, came along.  
     

     The boys and I went fishing, 5am in the morning.  This was a three person job.  The boys were watching the poles and netting each other's fish, and I was driving the boat and mapping out the fish (I love to drive the boat).  
    

     In the afternoon, we would pick huckleberries, find a couple of geocaches and feed "Sally".  Sally was a golden mantel ground squirrel (looks like a gigantic chipmunk) who keeps begging for good.  
     

 Yes, I was tatting.  Actually....test tatting.  

Jan was working on stitch card orders.

Color

Color

     Started adding the colored pencil on the feeder. 

Mixed

Mixed

     Started another mixed-media drawing of one of our hummers.  Here is the foundation with the brush markers.

Sewing

Sewing

     This is a sewing day.  Finished a few place mats and table runners.

Motifs

Motifs

     Working on a few more motifs for another doily.  Hope they lay flat, once I start connecting them.

Roses

Roses

      Tatting a few roses for my next project.

Stretch

Stretch

       I found a strand of turquoise, turtle beads at Micheal's.   I decided to make a few stretch, bracelets with mother-of-pearl beads, crystals, pearls, and coral dyed mother-of-pearl beads.

Fuchsia

Fuchsia

     Working on a Fuchsia, in my souvenir book.  Only two more pages to go.  

My working colors.