So Sad

So Sad

     I made the long trip down to the "Big City", yesterday and discovered our Jo Ann Fabric store is no longer carrying Lizbeth size 20 thread.  This is an extreme shame, since we live a long ways to any other city.  Good quality tatting thread is not accessible in our area.  
     By the way girls, our Jo Ann's displays their clearance stuff along an obscure wall.  Therefore, look all through your store, to see where they hid the clearance things.  

Good Luck.

Daisy in Mountain Breeze

Daisy in Mountain Breeze

     Another Daisy in Mountian Breeze and Leaf Green.  I like the way this one came out!!!

Yin-Yang

Yin-Yang

     This is the opposite color combination, from my post on Friday.  Another Tatted Daisy....they are quick and fun to make.

Lizbeth size 20 in Autumn Spice and Leaf Green

Mice Swizzel Sticks

Mice Swizzel Sticks

Set Up:

-         Colors/6 mm colorless Pyrex rod

-         # 3 tip

-         Matches/mats/towel/glass cutter/graphite paddle/long nail/tweezers

 

 Mouse Swizzle Stick (6 mm rod):

-         Use a #3 tip.  Colorless or colored rod can be used.

-         Form a small ball on the end of a piece of rod, flatten the ball and pull off an ear with a tweezers.

-         Make another ear about the same size.

-         Make two marias with your 6mm rod.  Make one of the bulges larger than the other.  This will be the body and head.

-         Pull off the excess rod on the head.  This forms the nose.  Heat the tip of the nose to form a small (nose) ball.  Add the eyes and the ears.

-         Add a tail and fire polish the end of the swizzle stick.  Do this step carefully!!!!   

REMEMBER  HOT GLASS LOOKS THE SAME AS COLD GLASS!!!!!

Add arms and legs if you want your mouse to have appendages.

The mouse is on the left and a hummingbird is on the right.

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Tatted Daisy

Tatted Daisy

  
     This is a pattern by Mrs. W.M. Odum, called "Tatted Daisy".  The thread was Lizbeth size 20 in Autumn Spice and Leaf Green.

Tatting Shuttles

Tatting Shuttles

     These are three, lovely tatting shuttles, I had bought with my birthday money.  They are from The Scarlet Scarab and are ONLY $6/ea!!!  She has them in bone, horn and shell.  The sizes are 2" and 1.5".  There are also fish-shapped suttles.  Check out her site, she has alot of wonderful things made out of shell and horns...like bobbin winders.
     I bought each of the shuttes in size 2".  They are a little tight in the tips, but use 800 grit wet/dry sand paper to open the tip slightly.  They work great!!!

Clover Drop Heart

Clover Drop Heart

     This is "Clover Drop Heart", by Nancy Tracy, found on Be-Stitched.com.
     The heart was done with size 80 Star thread.