Tatting Work/Shuttles Lost

It is a sad day in my household.  I had started Doily #1earlier this year from Tatted Fashion by Teiko Fujito.   I was working on it when my mom had several hospital stays earlier this year.  Now that my testing is complete, I started looking for this doily to work on last night.  Lo and behold, it is nowhere to be found.  I know I had an Aerolit (mgf England) and a metal shuttle with it.  It is not in my tat bag where I am pretty positive it should be.  I guess I will be busy next week looking at every little place I can think of to see if it shows up.  If not, I am not going to fret.  I know my mind is not as sharp as it was (brain overload).  I will just start over again.  In the meantime, I have other projects to work on.

Onward . . .

All test tatting has been complete.  Yeah!  I can now go back to finishing a few WIP's (with a few small, quick motifs added in). 

Tat Days registration is open.  It is to be held in Toccoa, GA on September 4-5, 2015.  It is a nice weekend to relax, learn new techniques or refresh those you already know, meet new friends, see those you have met in the past (or put a face to a name you have been friends with online).  The Palmetto Tatters Guild does a great job with this event. 

Doily and Snowflakes

Can't believe it has been that long since I have posted.  Try to do at least two a month.  Anyway, I have been tatting.  Been doing lots of test tatting for others.  I did manage to do some personal tatting in between.

The green doily is from the Spring 2015 issue of the Bulletin of IOLI.  It is called Whirl by Randy Houtz.  The snowflakes are from the book The Complete Book of Tatting by Rebecca Jones.  These make numbers 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the 25-motif challenge.

I am awaiting a couple more patterns to test.  In the meantime I have several tatting items in work as well as several sewing projects I really need to get started on.  I am hoping live simmers down enough to where I have time to work on them!

Tat Days 2015 Schedule

The Palmetto Tatters have posted the class pictures and schedule for this years Tat Days.  Go to palmettotatters.org/events/TatDays2015/ClassProjectPictures.shtml.  I am so excited as yes that is me that will be teaching this year (toot toot).  This is a first for me.  I am looking forward to being a part of this event.

Blinged Shuttles

My play day this past week did not go quite as planned.  However, over a couple of days, I was able to bling some shuttles.  I had gone to Michael's and found some stickers.  I had been collecting some shuttles from December to play with.  Below are a couple of my results.

The top are the results of side one.  The middle one is the California Angels (aka Anaheim Angels) baseball team halo A team symbol.  Had found some material years ago to make a blouse and had kept the scraps.  Cut around the halo A and tah dah - a blinged shuttle.  Shuttles 2 and 4 represent Minions and Frozen.  The first just has my initials and the last is halographic origami paper.

The bottom represents the finished back sides.  I have not decided on what to do with the yellow ones yet.  The backside of the halo A will also have the same symbol so it will be the same on both sides.  Tinkerbell was done last year.

I had purchased some glitter Modge Podge and used that on shuttles 2, 4 and on the green front side.

Now to get to some tatting!