Graduation Pictures

Graduation Pictures for my tatting friends

Tossing of our hats




Graduating Class of 2009

My ever supportive family

My good friend Sara

More to come!!

Graduating...

My oh my. Today is my high school graduation. I've very excited and proud to have accomplished so much. I've been working a lot lately so I haven't been tatting as much as I would like to, but my sister had a good idea the other day. She was looking through my thread collection and saw my gold and black threads. I have been in kind of a tatting rut (no new ideas or patterns to try) so Lea says 'How about a swallow-tail butterfly?' So I'm going to work on that all day until I have to get ready for tonight's ceremony. Here's the link for the pattern that I'll use: http://www.craftown.com/tat/pat1.htm. Life is so good and I am so thankful to everyone who has been a part of shaping me into who I am today. You have my forever thanks.
So blessings on all of you this weekend! May your tattings be joyful!
bye for now!

Training...but still tatting!

I got my first job! So this past few days I've been training and writing papers for the last week of school so I've barely gotten time to tat. But on the days that I have training, during our break time, I pulled out my shuttles and a fellow employee came up to me and knew what tatting was. "Hey! Your a tatter!" she said. I actually didn't know how to react because most of the time people ask "what's that?" She said that her brother and sister did it while he was in the hospital. How cool!

Wish me luck! more training today!

Pics from the fair

Here are some pictures from the Fair that I thought I would share with you:

I love this pattern!!!!!

sending off my bookmark for the May InTatters exchange and I LOVE JON'S PATTERN!! (http://tatsaway-patterns.blogspot.com/2008/08/bookmark-with-overlapping-chains.html) I'm It's so pretty! I've already started another one and I have the next colors all lined up for a third. Here are some pics! I'm so thrilled! The colors were inspired by Yarnplayer's 'Stained Glass post."

Haha! I've already started another one! I bought this new thread from Micheals and it's got really pretty colors to it. *Sighs* Does life get any better?

All Done!

Well the fair was quite a success. I made $35 and sold many little bookmarks. I still have left overs so I'm going to start an Etsy this weekend. Now I am free! I don't have to tat under a deadline! I'm starting my bookmark for the Intatters' exchange. I was going to tat Kersti's Pattern (http://www.kersti.com/?p=411) but I'm having trouble with it so I'm starting one of Jon's patterns (http://tatsaway-patterns.blogspot.com/2008/08/bookmark-with-overlapping-chains.html) I'll post pics along the way but I can't wait because I'm going to try my hand at split rings and split chains! Off to enjoy a beautiful weekend in the Midwest!