I've done it!

I learned how to tat split rings! I'm so thrilled! I used Jane Eborall's instructions found here (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~nickeb/SplitRings.pdf) Her instructions are so great, I use her website for everything! There were quite a few patterns that I wasn't able to try out before and now I'm so excited to start them. I'm kinda glad that the weather is crummy outside because I have an excuse to tat!

Celtic Crazy!!

I have had such a knack for Celtic stuff lately! I'll google 'Celtic knots' and then try to create them with really long chains. It's too fun. I've never really created a pattern before so this is a new frontier for me. Here are some pics of what I've been messing around with...

sorry that the quality of the pics are not so great. My sister has the camera this weekend so I'm using an old Vivitar.

Workin' on......

I've gone back through my files and found the pattern for the daffodil doily (pictured on the right side) and I'm going to be adding the fourth and fifth rounds. I'm working on it while I'm on my work breaks so that keeps me sharp during the day. I'll post pictures later! Thanks everyone for the Birthday wishes yesterday!
Much love,
Allison

Exchange!

I've signed up for the InTatter's June butterfly exchange so I'm working on vairiations of my swollowtail butterfly. The body and outer trim of the first butterfly will be a verigated blue and the inner wings will be white. Not much else new....but now I finally have time to tat before I go back to work on Friday. Tally-Ho!

How blessed I am!

My graduation party was this past Sunday and boy was I blessed. Over 50 people came out to visit the farm! But what I am most excited about is the gift that a good friend gave me. Sarah Lief is a wonderful lady that my mom works with and she is the one that got me started on my tatting journey. She lent me her book and DVD (How to Tat by Janette Baker) in November of 2008 and I was instantly hooked!(no pun intended!) So after I watched the DVD a million times and finally got it, my mom came home from work with information (from Sarah!) about a local quilt shop that offered tatting lessons. I have since taken their Beginners and Intermediate classes and both Sarah and I are anxiously awaiting their third course *Advanced Tattting.* We'll cover split chains and possibly clunies! I can't wait!!!

So now that you've heard the whole story.....On Sunday she gave me these beautiful gardening gloves with delicate pink and green flowers tatted around the wrists!! I was so touched! I'm going into college for a Horticulture degree, majoring in Greenhouse, and so these gloves are the best of both worlds! They are to pretty to use, so I think I'm going to frame them and just stare at 'em! Here are some pics: (Oh, and I finished my butterfly, too!)

Thank you Sarah from the bottom of my heart! You inspire me to keep on tatting and never give up! I hope to see you soon at Basketcases so we can tat and chat! Blessings!! Here is her blog for you to check out: http://currentlytatting.blogspot.com/

We often take what is good in life for granted. But when you are in the midst of a multitude of friends that love you, does not the world seem all the more beautiful? Praises to our Lord for my graduation milestone!!

Bye for now!

Allison

Current Tatting Project...

Wow! I can't believe how long it's been! What with graduation, parties, and work, I don't have a ton of time to tat anymore and boy, oh, boy do I miss it! So my butterfly is coming along really nicely. I have a week off of work because my good friend Doug is coming in from up-state New York to spend a week with us. So hopefully I'll be able to find some time to tat then. Work is going really well though!

more pictures to come! and pictures of my grad party!! bye for now!