Tatted Autumn Pumpkin Pattern

I worked on the pumpkin diagram and pattern over the weekend. So it is now available for everyone to download. Click HERE to get the pattern.

ENJOY!!

Tatted Pumpkin Design

After we had passed all the candy out to the ghoulie kids, I desided to work on a design that was Halloween-ish for the rest of the evening. Doesn’t have to be for Halloween. Works for any Autumn season. I finished it at the bewitching hour of past midnight while watching classic movies like “It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown”, “Boo, To You Too, Winnie The Pooh”, 1944 Spencer Tracy movie of “Dr. Jekyle and Mr. Hyde” and “The Witches” with Angelica Houston to name a few. The thread I used was Majestic(about a size 80 and felt like rope after tatting with 160 Coron Cotton). It is a single shuttle design. It features half ring braid on the outside part of the pumpkin. The fillings are single shuttle flowers, stems and leaves. I will try to have a pattern made up sometime soon. I would like to make a tall pumpkin design to accompany it.

Below are pictures I took of this years Halloween decorations. Pretty much the same as last year except we had these decorative ceramic pumpkins with blue or amber flicker lights that were used at my niece’s wedding. Extra blue flicker lights went into the lanterns lining the walkway. It made a nice glow to welcome the ghoulie kidlets dying for a treat.

Happy Halloween Fun!!



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Have a SPOOKY Halloween!!

Another cool Halloween animation to brighten…….or should I say……SCARE your day

Kim and I stayed up until midnight last night making Halloween cookies. Not for the kiddies, but for a bake sale held out at the local hospital for the Hospital Auxilliary. We made sugar cookies in the shape of fall leaves and acorn. Then we took rolled buttercream in different fall colors and swirled them together. Rolled it out flat and used the same cookie cutter shape. Placed the rolled buttercream shape on the sugar cookie. Sorry, no pics. It was rush time to get the cookies to the bake sale. They didn’t turn out as colorful as we had hope. The colors muddled together too much. But it still was a fun experiment and worth trying again.

yes…..tatting again

OK….so I lied about not tatting again for a while! I usually don’t do this because I tend to be lax and not get projects done or I sign up for so many I can’t get them done in time and I am late. But this time I only signed up for ONE exchange and I am putting all effort into it. I went and joined the Arachne Christmas Card Exchange through the Arachne Lace List. Of course I wanted to design my own instead of using someone else’s. And I design best in tatting. Plus I will share the pattern with all lacemakers that will be featured on the card exchange. Nice to give back to the lace community when all I seem to do is take….mostly. So there you have it. I have until the end of November to get my card made and mailed in.

My life is anything but boring. You think we could just settle down and be couch potatoes. NOOO! I have had a couple of senior photo shoots with a couple of senior HS guys in different location around town and trying to schedule around the sunlight/clouds and rain that seems to be pooring daily. Plus working around their schedules. I am not the only one busy! Also some indoor shots had to be scheduled. They are turning out nice so far. Also I have 25 caricature drawings to do for my aunt’s place of work for their employees Christmas presents. So I am without nothing to do for a while as I had hoped. My bobbin lace hasn’t been touched since you last saw my progress on that doily. Maybe I will get to it in December??? PAH!

Just to brighten your day after all that, I found this cute Halloween animation. It’s like….GIMME, GIMME, GIMME! hehe

MapMyRun.com – Long Run: idler to iron gate to woburn rd on 10/25/2009

Bobbin lacing in the evenings

While I have been trying to crash in the evenings from the wedding event last weekend, This is what I have been working on

I believe it is Hungarian style tape lace. Not sure. It is a pattern out of Doris Southard’s book “Lessons In Bobbin Lacemaking”. I started this AGES ago and only had one corner and inside corner done. There it sat like that for years. Until now. I found this raw unbleached linen thread that I wanted to try and picked this pattern. The raw linen proves to be a challenge more than the lace. It has nubs and imperfections and will occasionally break. Yet it is a strong thread. When I get it done I can tell that it will be a crisp doily. I will probably want to mangle it to make the linen thread shine.

Pics of my niece’s wedding dress

After a gruelling many months of work on the wedding dress, cake, flower arrangements, etc…….IT IS FINALLY OVER!!! We were totally exhausted before, during and after the event(as you will notice in some of the pictures of us. Death warmed over!). The last week was non stop work and every available body was put to work on the dress and anything else we could come up with. My main disappointment was that no matter how hard we tried, we didn’t get all of the lace applied and beaded. So the overall design was much simpler than anticipated. But the personality of the dress fit the personality of my niece. Simple and elegant. In THAT I am happy! And she was happy and told me how grateful she was with all our hard work.

Instead of showing you all 117 pictures of the dress, flowers and wedding, just click on one of my favorite wedding photos of my niece to go to the photo album. While there you can select the first picture and then use the zoom button to get a real closeup. The slide show button is on the upper left of the page.

ENJOY!!!

From Gasser-Haas-Wedding

I am trying to do some crash time after the wedding, but have two senior photo shoots to do and a birthday cake for Sat. Plus this Sat and Sun we have a heritage demonstration to do. I guess more crash time for next week. UUUGGGHHH!!!!!

MapMyRun.com – Regular Run: run to church and back on 10/19/2009

Since I have been non stop busy with the wedding and too tired to do anything else, it has been a month or so since I have had the chance to get back into my running schedule. Now that the wedding is over, it sure feels good to go running in the mornings again. Of course at this time of year it is pitch black outside and it was clear skies and I could see all the stars. WONDERFUL! I like running with stars above me

MapMyRun.com – Regular Run: run to church and back on 10/19/2009

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Tatting and Wine

They go well together! As long as you don’t spill it on the crisp white tatting After our big shopping trip to get cake supplies and cut out leaves for the programs, Kim went to take a nap. I settled on our back porch, in the sun in a cumfy chair, sipping wine, to do some more tatting on the edging for the wedding dress. YES, I am still working on it even though I should have been done a month ago. But I am taking every bit of time I can to work on it so it will be closer to what I have in mind. Still won’t have as much tatting on it as I like. But you never can satisfy a man HAH

The edging is the last part that goes up the front of the dress. It is a smaller version of the scallop edging that goes around the back. It will be topped with little flower sprays.

The sun slowly was going down and was getting chilly. So my little tatting/wine time in the garden was cut short. Will have to do some more tomorrow morning and afternoon.