Monday MONDO Giveaway Part IX

Hold on to your hair everyone because today's giveaway is instant gratification and EVERYONE goes home with the prize.


"Treble Clef" Free Pattern.
Surprisingly for such simple looking pattern this took me weeks to get right. It has a folded ring in it so for those who haven't had the privilege of tatting one, now is your chance. It's a great pattern for using up that left over thread on your shuttles....and it tats up very quickly. Enjoy!
This was tatted in KrystleDawn's "Windbreaker".




I have been working a lot with precious metals in the studio and that got me to thinking about tatting with wire. I have done a lot of tatting OVER wire but have never tatted WITH wire. This is copper wire and it tats up as nicely as you could ever expect wire to tat up. I am playing around with it as I can see a lot of potential in its application, so we will see where this endeavor leads me.
Also, I am refining my skills with my new line of shuttles. They are incredibly expensive to make as one might expect when working in precious gems and metals so I have very little to no room for mistakes. I am very excited about what I have so far and I will be putting a couple up for sale real soon.

This is a ring that I made with a small portion of left over materials, I really love it. Now mind you, I am not in the jewelry making business and don't intend to branch off into what thousands of other people can do better than I, but it is good practice for my future shuttles.


If you like this pattern and decide to download it, please just leave a quick comment letting me know that you did!

HAPPY MONDAY!!!

Finally some tatting "up in here"...

It's 1:30 in the A.M. ....can't sleep.
This is the first chance I've had to blog for the last week. Why is it that as I get older my time gets shorter? If I live to 150 I am never going to accomplish all the goals that I have set.
Anyhow, I was lucky enough to find some tatted treasures this past week. I very very rarely shop...but it just happens that I came upon an antique shop and of course the only thing I was interested in was tatting and sure enough I found these.

This is very pretty and very dainty. It looks like a baby bib of some sort...perhaps one that would go over a christening gown? I can tell that it is very old but it is in good condition. I didn't get a smoking deal on it but I thought it was precious and well worth the price.

This piece was too big for the scanner but you can get the idea. It is hand embroidered and the tatted edging is so dainty. I can tell that the thread size is much smaller than size 100.

This is an interesting doily. Partially crocheted and partially tatted. It needs blocking, but I couldn't find a mistake anywhere, so I wonder if this might be machine tatted?

Anyhow, I have gotten soooo behind on reading blogs. I just haven't had any significant time to spend on the computer lately. I feel like I am quickly falling "behind the times" in the tatting world...Oh my! It's boggling, wonderful and frustrating all at the same time!

I had a great time reading all the comments on my last post. There were some very clever substitutes for those expletives that sometimes spill out of our mouths.
Here are a few of my favorites:

"Criminy Dick, fudge, crikey, son of a buck, crud, cripes, for the love of Pete, dag nab it"...by Diane


"rats, mice and chickenfeet!"...by Marty

"Bugnuts"...by Suzanne (Must read cute story in comments on last post)

"Oh, fish balls"....by Beverly

"fudge", progresses to "fudgesickles", and culminates with "flying freakin' fudgesickles"!...by Vicki

"Gunga Din"...by Kathy...(you must read her very amusing story in the comments on the last post).


Sadly, I didn't get a chance this year to plant flowers or grow veggies....but I once again got to snap photos of my poppies that come up every year on their own. I thought I'd share a bit of my sunshine with you! If you'd like, you can click on the picture to enlarge and "right click" to save it for use as a background desktop photo.

Happy Tatting!!