tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75652698984184642342024-03-17T20:02:50.893-07:00Kathy's Victorian Tatted LaceKathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-8186756145197806502018-04-02T16:59:00.001-07:002018-04-03T05:55:20.758-07:00SPECIAL TATTED EGG<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Below is the egg in its holder</b>, showing its truer color, in <i>Lizbeth Vintage Harvest #20</i>. On the right, of course, is the side view in the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">holder</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, showing the two strands of adhesive pearls used to ‘section’ off the egg. The pearls were added last, of course. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (made up of t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wo strips of clovers/chains,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The band and motifs are attached to</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">styrofoam egg (with a smooth surface) using </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tiny-headed pins</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I dd not attempt to tat the sections to each other. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As mentioned above, this egg has been ‘sitting around for long periods of time, but the total time I worked on it might have been </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">only about five hours!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Initially, I just couldn’t figure out how to proceed with it after I completed the first part - the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">band. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nine clovers</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on each side of the band. Although they were supposed to remain in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>center </u></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the egg, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they didn’t end up that way!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you study the area between the pearls, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> only one set </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of the two clover strips is visible. That’s because the one set of clovers/chains ended up being pulled way over </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">toward the front of the egg - the interlocking rings section</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , and it now ‘frames’ the interlocking rings. (The clovers slightly overlap a bit (and are pinned down), but they look fine.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The initial idea I had was that the clover band would symmetrically covered the egg lengthwise in the center. All I had to do was tat two </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> oval </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">motifs for the ‘front’ and ‘back’ sections . But I put the egg aside for quite a while and forgot about it. . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I finally got back to it, my first attempt at an oval (using the clover theme again) happened to be just a bit too large, and I’m still not sure how I rounded the ‘bends’ on the narrower sides. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(There seems to be some fudging there, but I don’t want to unpin it to find out!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I pinned the oval onto the egg to see how I might redo it, and ‘attached’ it with pins to the one side of the band. It turned out that when I pulled on the other side of the band to pin </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> down (like in blocking), the clovers went way over to the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> front side </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the egg, and now that area was smaller but was a more circular shape! I decided not to redesign the oval! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now I had to think of a circular shape. So the project was abandoned again. Then one day recently, I was looking through my many ‘samples’ of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tatting, and I finally found the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">perfect ‘filler’ </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the open area - a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">motif of interlocking rings</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> conveniently </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">already tatted in Vintage Harvest, which I did a long time ago. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<br />Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-42222254024098488162015-05-09T07:26:00.000-07:002017-04-04T18:45:20.693-07:00Perfect Match - Pendant and Vest<br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtD5eYbGwf-FGCcNKenxIvsY7lQcjKEaq1Rw4BhH__JkBQPZTekZPCD4gJTMJeEYTV6W0IVotz1_Rvl4MAq-RSPaiN-14W0uGgRrh8ZCM0F1SAO8GUuOdx2asSCENHLH24jcqt-JiJtIQ/s1600/PENDANT.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtD5eYbGwf-FGCcNKenxIvsY7lQcjKEaq1Rw4BhH__JkBQPZTekZPCD4gJTMJeEYTV6W0IVotz1_Rvl4MAq-RSPaiN-14W0uGgRrh8ZCM0F1SAO8GUuOdx2asSCENHLH24jcqt-JiJtIQ/s320/PENDANT.png" width="320" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">This is one of those happy occurrences when you don't plan
something, but it works out perfectly!</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong>I
now have a 'matching' tatted pendant and new knitted vest, just by
happenstance</strong>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>T<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he Lizbeth thread is one of my favorites,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> T</span>ropical Punch, size 20.</i></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong>Yarn</strong>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michaels 'Impeccable Yarn' brand, variegated
color 'Summerset'</span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong></strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong>The Unplanned Vest</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">It all started last month when I saw some variegated
yarn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at Michaels that appealed to me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I planned to knit a scarf, simply as a
'mindless' project to have while watching TV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><em>I knew it wasn't a 'striping'
yarn (which I was looking for) but I liked the colors and wondered how it would
knit up.</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">As the 'scarf' progressed, I would hold it up in a mirror
to see how the colors were evolving, and I kept thinking that the width of the scarf
was just right for a left or right vest front, and I started thinking about
making a vest instead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">I didn't want to do any armhole shaping, and didn't see
why it wouldn't be possible to make a vest with two rectangular pieces (fronts)
and one larger 'square' for the back, keeping it simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><em>There is probably
a pattern out there somewhere, but I just 'winged' it, and I was quite
delighted that it worked out!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></em></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">And I had
just enough yarn (2 skeins)!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">Even buttoning it was easy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The button at the waist is one of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those 'no sew' buttons that has a 'tie tack' in
back. No buttonholes needed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I now would like to make several more of
these! </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Pendant </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">I wasn't even thinking about a pendant when I picked out
the yarn. (Remember, I was making a scarf!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">Only when the vest was finished did I look over my collection of
pendants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I realized I had the
perfect one, and it's 'kind of' recent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">The basic pendant isn't new (see below), but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I added the rose a few months ago and I
received lots of compliments when I wore it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">Interestingly, the
pretty rose is made of <strong>paper</strong>(!) which comes in a packet of roses in the scrapbook/paper
section craft stores. i</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">'m sure card
makers love them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are not
self-adhesive, which surprised me, but it's easy enough to glue them down</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong>I've often added flowers to my tatting
(even snowflakes), but usually they are made of 'silk' or ribbon</strong>.</span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">You may recognize
the basic pendant, which I featured in my blog back in September of 2012.</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">This was my <strong>first 'doodad' pendant</strong>, thanks to Sue (God's
Kid), who not only alerted us to these doodads at Hobby Lobby, but also generously
gave us some snowflake patterns to make with them. (see link below). </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;">However,
instead of making a snowflake, I did the 1<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>st</sup> round of one of Sue's
designs, and added chains to the ou</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: small;">ter round. </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><em>We are finally having warm weather – almost too
warm, as it got into the 80s with high humidity the other day. I tried not
to complain (I've waited so long for warm weather!), but I caved in and turned on the A/C! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope temps cool down a bit, as we have a
lot of yardwork to do to get the lawn and landscaping back in shape! There is always some damage after winter. </em></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><em><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>Hope everyone has a nice Mother's Day in the U.S. tomorrow! </strong></span></em></span></div>
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</span></span> </span>Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-58615279343765030012015-04-02T10:55:00.002-07:002015-04-02T10:55:41.278-07:00Easter's On Its Way
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><span style="color: purple;">Also, Maple Syrup Festival
and Int'l Tatting Day<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All my decorated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eggs with tatting on them are now among my
Easter decorations at home, after being on display at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maple Syrup Festival</b> this past weekend (see below). </span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>The satin eggs (near the bunny) are larger than hens' eggs, and accommodated larger motifs on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also are Styrofoam underneath, so I could easily use pins for attaching, as well as decoration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also used glue stick glue to hold the tatting in place, and they have remained in place for more than 20 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Of course, they don't get handled too often.) </em><span><o:p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I haven't shown the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong>'flocked' eggs</strong> before, which have a 'faux
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">They are the seven eggs in the front of the above photo. </span></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I first found them
in 1993 in – of all places – the Dollar stores!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They came packaged just like a 'carton of
eggs', in white cardboard containers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are purely decorative and are the size of normal 'hens' eggs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bought several dozen of them to share with
our tatting group. I was surprised that they were still in the stores for a
couple of years before 'disappearing'.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no idea how other customers used the
plain eggs (they don't come apart for inserting candy), but they were perfect
for adding tatting and other embellishments, and I get a lot of compliments on
them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>They were fun to decorate and
once I learned split-ring tatting (around 1995), I was able to incorporate the rings as a
'frame' in the center design or the divider between the front and back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was more 'ambitious' back then and I
decorated the front and back the same <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">I enjoyed </span>adding other elements for the decorations, such as flowers, ribbons and
beads.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And here is a <strong>'newer' display</strong>
idea for my coffee table, but the eggs are also from the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are all <strong>beaded eggs,</strong> which were only
available one year (of course).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are covered in tiny </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">'micro' beads (over a
plastic egg) and fortunately are also hollow inside, which made it possible to
use pins for decoration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The egg on top of the candle is
smaller and is white, whereas the three eggs at the base are larger and have pastel colors with
shading, which is very effective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made use of scrapbook supplies (adhesive
gems, flowers, beaded tape)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to embellish
the eggs and added fancy bows (using a bow maker).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span><o:p></o:p></span><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The 'newest' item for my
display is a <strong>pin/pendant</strong>, attached to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
ribbon on the white candle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As you can
see, I added tatting to the pin (two triangles in Lizbeth size 20 thread).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><em>The
oval metal filigree piece has a pin on the back and also a hidden loop to
attach a chain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love finding items
like this at antique or thrift stores.</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">I can add any color ribbon to
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>This idea could also be used
for a wedding or shower decoration and given to the bride as a keepsake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I simply used gold peel-offs for the
'corners'.</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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'deliver' eggs!</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No 'hopping' necessary! <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is a brand new addition to my
Easter display. I found this cute 'bunny on a tricycle' at Michaels. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I added a tatted
'collar' from my stash, and hope to add tatting to her ears, probably </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">in pink thread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em><strong>Having 'wheels' makes it
easier to make those deliveries, although she'll need a cart for lots more
eggs!</strong></em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;">International Tatting Day 2015<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">This year, <strong>International Tatting Day</strong> fell on Wednesday, in between'
our tatting group's event at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maple
Syrup Festival</b> (Mar. 28-29), and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Easter</b> (April 5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You might say we accomplished our requirement of 'tatting in public' a
little early, except we could do very little tatting on Saturday. as the
temperature never got above 30 degrees!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
(</span>We fortunately were in a large 'protected' pavilion which we share with the quilters and bobbin lacers, plus a gal who does intricate paper cutting.) We were dressed warmly,
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degrees on Sunday, and the day passed more pleasantly as we chatted with all the
visitors!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As usual, there was a lot of
interest in our tatting.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was my 25<sup>th</sup> time at the Festival (can't
quite grasp the passage of time), during which we have had all kinds of
weather, from the 20s through the 80s!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We always enjoy the pancakes as a 'perk' for demonstrating!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: purple;"><strong>I hope everyone has nice weather for Easter this year! </strong></span></span></span></span></i></div>
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Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-77730949344730271362015-01-01T14:04:00.001-08:002020-12-19T11:54:50.835-08:00Happy New Year 2015
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saga of the 'Layered'
Snowflake <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here is the layered snowflake (from my prior post) in its
brass holder, which displays it nicely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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This <span style="font-family: Calibri;">layered snowflake 'evolved' very slowly, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">from 2011 to 2014</b>! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It definitely wasn't planned!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Each of the four parts has its own history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It even surprised <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">me</i> when all the parts all came together in such a pleasing way!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Snowflake pattern</b>:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #c45911; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Winter
Star" by Susan Schwenke.</b></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(see link below)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found the pattern back in 2011 and I tatted
it right away, but then set it aside – for a couple of years!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thought I'd just add my usual small gem to the center and a fancy bow on
top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I'm now glad I waited until I
got the 'layering' idea. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The second element is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">small
brass filigree medallion</b>, formerly an earring with a sparkly pink gem in
the center. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I experimented with this earring
in 2012 by tatting two rows of chains around it in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lizbeth Tropical Punch</b> (size 20) and adding some gold beads<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was going to make it into a pendant, but I didn't follow through, and just set
it aside.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">'spoked' beaded snowflake</b>
goes back to 2010 from an acquaintance at a craft show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hung it in a window during the winter
months, as it caught the light nicely; but I thought I might eventually add
tatting to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I remember at one time pairing it up with the pink snowflake to see if
I could put the two together in some way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I abandoned that idea – for a while!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The big <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">acrylic
(tinted) snowflake</b> ornament is from Hobby Lobby, purchased in December 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I simply liked its weight and size, and thought I might add
some tatting to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It became the 'last
piece' of the puzzle!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The layering idea began around 2013 after I noticed that the
thread colors in the medallion complemented the pink snowflake, and when I
placed the medallion with the sparkly gem on top of the snowflake, they seemed
perfect for each other!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I again set them aside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then it took another while for me to realize
that I could use the '<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">spoked' snowflake</b>
after all, by sandwiching it in between the other two elements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally,
I realized that big acrylic ornament seemed like a good way to give it some
'weight' and substance, and I wouldn't have to stiffen the snowflake. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But then it took more time to figure out how to hold the parts
together, and the solution was a dime-size piece of Velcro to hold the tatted snowflake
securely to the acrylic ornament; and strong double-sided foam tape to hold the
other elements to each other securely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
tape is not noticeable at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The acrylic piece not only gives the ornament
'weight' but also makes it easy to hang and store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All of a sudden it became
a glitzy ornament similar to those you see on those fancy 'designer' trees, and
it certainly fits the Victorian theme.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In my younger days, I'd probably have created several similar ones by
now, but I seem to have run out of the ambition and 'drive' I used to
have!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The ornament finally made its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">official debut in its present brass hanger at the Maple Festival in
April 2014</b>, and it's been to three more events since then. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It gets
noticed right away!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I very much appreciated the
diagram that is provided!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even with the
diagram, I found it a little 'tricky' to tat!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don't often use two shuttles, and I had to go very slowly and make
sure I was using the correct shuttle and going the right direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember also using color markers to
highlight the diagram to help remember what shuttle to use!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took longer to tat than I anticipated,
and I had to really concentrate on it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I recall, I did it in sections over several
days! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The middle of the lovely
snowflake design is, unfortunately, 'hidden' by the medallion in the finished piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But at least I can show the whole snowflake
here in my blog.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here we are at the New Year already, and I
hope that 2015 will bring all you wish for.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blog note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those of you who may have tried
'enlarging' the photo in my last post, I have fixed it so that it now enlarges
properly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I apologize to anyone who had
a problem with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm still learning
things about my new laptop, including how to add photos to posts, which is a different
procedure from that of my older laptop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">NOTE FROM Dec. 19, 2020: <span> Testing the new Blogger interface. The world has also changed in a huge way. I'm grateful we can have blogs that record our lives during all phases. There are no craft shows this year, and Facebook has many new techniques from talented tatters around the world. </span></span></span></i></div>
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Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-5686327594228302082014-12-25T08:23:00.000-08:002014-12-29T18:13:51.338-08:00A Holiday Wish for You<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am FINALLY updating my blog, and I want show off a gift
I just received from my very talented sister-in-law, who has taken up the 'new'
craft of lettering on a 'chalkboard' canvas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Thanksgiving, I immediately noticed an attractive, artistic black-and-white 'sign' she
had hung on a wall in her dining room. I thought she had purchased it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> I had no idea she was dabbling in this 'new' art
form!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> And I certainly didn't know she was planning to make one for me! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's actually a throwback to the time in the Nineteenth and
early Twentieth centuries when fancy lettering and embellishment was the 'norm' on signs or in
newspaper advertising as a way to draw customers' attention to a product or
announcement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I had been noticing more chalkboards
in different shapes and sizes in the craft stores, and was aware that there are
special chalk 'paints' to decorate them, I had no idea how popular this art form had
become until I recently looked it up on the internet! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>For this sign, she painted a 12" x 12" white
canvas (pre-mounted over a 1" frame) with a special black 'chalkboard effect'
paint, and did the beautiful lettering with a white paint pen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love it and very much appreciate the talent that went
into creating it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A very special keepsake gift, indeed!</em> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course, the canvas is meant to hang on a wall (and is
very lightweight), but for the photo I laid it flat as a special background for showing one of my 'newer' snowflakes (tatted about a year ago!), which I
'built up' to a layered effect by adding several embellishments, including a center
motif of a metal doodad with tatting around it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The background snowflake (about 4" across)
is done in size 20 pink Cebelia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>I will explain more about this layered snowflake (which has its own brass ornament stand) and its evolution in my next
post (which will be soon!).</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">A very Merry Christmas
and a pleasant Holiday Season!</span></strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-42183778836356173522014-07-02T14:31:00.000-07:002014-07-07T21:12:45.943-07:002014 Patriotic Pendant, plus Keepsake Paperweight<br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both items have the same Small Motif pattern, with doo-dad inserts.</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Several
months ago, I tatted two motifs <u>based on</u> <strong><span style="color: red;">Jane Eborall’s ‘Small Motif’</span></strong>
design, (see info below), but I substituted a </span><span style="color: black;"><strong>doo-dad
for Round One.</strong><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(These doo-dads - one silver and one gold - are
plastic but are </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nicely made and are smooth on both sides.)</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then put the motifs aside after tatting
them, and I finally found places to show them off!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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is this for a dramatic presentation of a tatted pendant?<o:p></o:p></span></strong></em></span></div>
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will be wearing this scarf to my hometown's Parade on the Fourth!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s made of ‘yarn’ fibers with lots of
sparkly silver beads, plus fringed ends!</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">When I saw the scarf at Hobby Lobby, I knew it was the perfect
showcase for my new pendant on my silver slider.</span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><strong>Finding the Motif<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></strong></u></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Several months ago I was looking for a 'quick' motif to tat so that I could start using up some doo-dads that I have, and it seemed that Jane’s “Small Motif” pattern was a good match. I loved the 'petal' shape, and it had six sides to match the holes in the doo-dad.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">The thread is Lizbeth Christmas Red, size 20 . </span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Unfortunately the doo-dad seems no longer to be available at Hobby Lobby<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></i></span></span></span><br />
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The doo-dad is substituted for the first round, but I had to figure out how to ‘encapsulate’ it (see figure below) and at the
same time add six rings (mock rings in this case), ready for Jane’s second round</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As many of you know, you can find
Jane’s fabulous patterns and her exceptional drawings at </span></i><a href="http://janeeborall.blogspot.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://janeeborall.blogspot.com/</span></i></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Then look on the left sidebar for her
‘<strong>patterns and</strong> <strong>techniques’ pages</strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
‘<strong>Small Motif’</strong> is found under ‘Motifs, Snowflakes and Doilies.’<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Encapsulating
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Substitute for first round)</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This
is generally what the tatting around the doo-dad looks like. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Using
only a shuttle and ball (not much thread needed on the shuttle), I inserted the hook into a hole in the doo-dad, then rather than a normal ring, I thought it would be easier to add a <strong>'mock</strong> <strong>ring'</strong>, which I did with
a <strong>6 – 6</strong> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">chain</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b>
(joining the first and last stitches of the chain).</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Then
I did a chain of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3 vsp 3</b> to get to
the next hole, and inserted the hook into that hole, and did another ‘mock
ring’, then continued around, joining the final chain at the </span><span style="color: black;">base
of the first ‘mock ring’. Then I ‘cut and tied’! Turns out this was all quite easy to do! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The knot count on the chains can be adjusted according to your tension. </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Now I had the six 'rings' ready for the second round of Jane’s pattern !</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span><br />
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hooks on the
Aerlit and Pop-A-Bobbin shuttles are just the right size for </span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">getting through
the hole in the doo-dad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Of course, you can also
use a very ‘fine’ crochet hook.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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round</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For
the ‘flower petal’ round, two shuttles are required, and I simply followed
Jane’s instructions, <u>except</u> I started by inserting the hook into the vsp
between the mock rings and began with the long chain, rather than starting with
a split ring<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Jane’s pattern indicates climbing out from
the first round; but of course, that wasn’t possible here.)</i></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>Second Motif -</strong> <strong>Keepsake
Paperweight<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">The
second motif, with a gold center, is designated as another </span><span style="color: black;"><strong>keepsake</strong>
for our ‘Winter Wedding’ anniversary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
motif, mounted on a white velvet paper disc, fits perfectly in this<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>paperweight without distortion, and is
enhanced by gold accents.</span> </span><br />
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<o:p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">(<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found the paperweight
at a local craft outlet (Pat Catan’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
Ohio and PA). It’s made of very clear glass <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with an indentation on the bottom that allows
for the thickness of the thread and doo-dad. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i><br />
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is the motif removed from the paperweight, so you can see the detail of the
embellishments which I added from my scrapbook stash, as follows:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></span></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Margaret will appreciate my use of the gold stickers (we both love
to use gold stickers on our cards)! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
you know, Margaret not only does beautiful tatting and other needlework, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;"> but
she’s also a very talented card maker, and you can see her blog at <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span><a href="http://margaretsdesignercards.blogspot.com/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://margaretsdesignercards.blogspot.com/</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She happens to be from England, and was born
on the Fourth of July!!!</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Happy Birthday, Margaret</strong>!</span> </span></span></i></div>
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English' gal!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span></span><br />
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my mother’s father! Sadly, I never met my grandfather, who </span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>died in 1929, many years before I was born. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course, the clear dish protects the doily from the candle. Even though the candle is wax and has a wick, I scooped out the center (several years ago) and put a battery-powered tea candle in there. Much safer and easier to deal with - no wax drips, no oily smoke! </span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em>When battery-powered tea candles first came on the market, I marveled at what an ingenious product they were - and are! . Fortunately they came down in price, and I have many around my home and don’t have to worry about candle flames. These days some large ‘faux’ candles come with battery already flames built in</em>. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(The only disadvantage I see is that very young children who ‘grow up’ with the battery candles in their homes may not distinguish them from a real flame on a real candle! ) </span><br />
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<br /><br />Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-91804744052743139252014-05-02T06:52:00.001-07:002014-05-10T17:13:14.754-07:00Special Anniversary 'Tatting' Display<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: large;">... and a New 'Anniversary' Necklace</span></span><br />
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together as a personal Anniversary memento.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s about 2” in diameter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was pleased with the way this turned out</i>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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& Flowers magazine (Better Homes and Gardens – 1995)</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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decided to remove it from the paperweight and use it on a necklace as an anniversary memento. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> I’ve already received several compliments on this necklace from
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cards and holiday items throughout the year, and, of course, I take them down
after the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, this year I’m
keeping my Anniversary display up for a while, especially since we get more visitors
during the summer months!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s also a
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First:</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Teri Dusenbury’s ‘Regal Heart’</span></i></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on the velvet heart box), which I’ve had for several years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe it’s the only heart in Teri’s ‘<i>Tatting
Hearts’ </i>book which does <u>not </u>have split rings! That’s why I
tatted it, because when I bought her groundbreaking book in the mid-‘90s, I had
no idea how to do split rings! I sewed the pearls on afterwards and attached
the lace to the box with beaded pins. Therefore the lace can easily be
removed and washed if necessary. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Second</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lyn Morton’s ‘Hearts and Flowers’ pattern</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, from her book
“Tatting Patterns”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The pattern was free</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">on her website
for a while, in 2010. </i>The motif is displayed here between two pieces of
clear glass - originally ‘large candle’ holders (different sizes) that happened
to ‘nest’ together perfectly, encasing the tatting.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>I was amazed to discover <u>just now</u> that Lyn Morton and her husband have recently retired, and there are new owners for their e-shop, ‘Tatting and Design’ (England). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The website is an excellent source for tatting items and books! </em></span></span><a href="http://www.tatting.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-size: large;"><em>http://www.tatting.co.uk/</em></span></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> am always pleased when I look at our 1964 wedding photos, as they don’t seem too ‘dated’ to me, except for my and my two attendants' hairstyles. <em>I had a medium-length 'flip', my Maid of Honor had a straight, slightly bouffant style, and my bridesmaid had her hair in a loose french twist, light teasing on top.</em> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>The hairstyles of the ‘70s featured mostly long and straight hair on the gals, who also sometimes wore floppy hats; and the guys wore wide-lapel pastel tuxes, perhaps in bell-bottom style! Also boys and men in the '70s were wearing their hair longer, and in some cases very long! </em></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our best man and usher had short hair and wore classic black tuxes, which would look just fine today!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>What <u><strong>is</strong></u> amazing to me is that we all were only 19 or 20 years old!</em></span></div>
</span><span style="font-size: large;">I loved the ‘Christmas red’ taffeta gowns my two attendants wore, although today I would choose burgundy velvet gowns (similar to the color of the bow and velvet box in the photo above). </span><br />
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gowns were not allowed in churches back then!</span> </em>Our </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: large;">sleeves were form-fitting
and didn't have the puffy look of the ‘90s, which does tend to ‘date’ those
wedding gowns now – but I liked the Victorian / Renaissance look of some of those
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</span><br />Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-28175071542320309062014-04-26T20:26:00.000-07:002014-05-01T11:42:18.149-07:00Something Old, Something New<br />
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Old, Something New</b>” is usually associated with weddings, it also describes my
new <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Anniversary</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Keepsake </b>that I recently put together<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>after celebrating our <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">milestone
wedding anniversary</b> this past January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have created keepsake bells for others but not as elaborate as this
one!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I used
various old and new items to assemble it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’</b>m very pleased with the way this turned out </span></div>
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’50’,</b> which were included in a beautiful plant we </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> received </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">from our brother- and sister-in-law<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> card store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <em>The 'flares' of the bells almost look like </em></span><br />
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course, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tatted bell, </b>which I
made in 1992, during the early years of my tatting (1990-94) when I was ‘on a
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wasn’t long before I adopted it as my Anniversary bell, since the colors of my
wedding were red and white. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">It’s made with size 20 Cebelia <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Below is the very elegant <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>restaurant we were taken to as a wonderful surprise by our brother-
and sister-in-law <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on our Special Day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This restaurant<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has quite a history, and it’s just as elegant
inside!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we had never been there before, it was a
really special evening!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weather also cooperated!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it
was similar to the weather on our wedding day in 1964 - a little overcast, and temps in the mid-40s, with some snow leftover from a few days before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our anniversaries have ranged from a balmy 60
F. down to 10 F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On our 30<sup>th</sup> in
1994, we had to dig out 10” of snow so that DH could get to work !<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I was shoveling snow that day, I was just grateful that
we didn’t have that kind of snowstorm on our wedding day!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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low-key, informal celebration of our anniversary (exactly what we wanted)
during the Thanksgiving weekend (hosted by the same brother- and
sister-in-law), which was a planned get-together with family and several cousins
whom we hadn’t seen for several years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our other sister-in-law (the one for whom I made the 25<sup>th</sup>
anniversary ‘Mary Konior’ bell) surprised us with a beautiful <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">50<sup>th</sup> Anniversary sheet cake</b>
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somewhat stunned at the ‘reality’ of it. As everyone discovers as they
get older, Time somehow speeds up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span> It was only <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘yesterday’
that we celebrated our <strong>25<sup>th</sup> in 1989</strong> - <strong>the year I learned to tat and
quilt,</strong> and made the <strong>Victorian fan tree skirt</strong>, with <strong>my
first tatted pieces</strong> on it (hens and chicks, of course, plus a straight line of rings!. I was very proud of those! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<strong>That year, we were also movie extras
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Then we buzzed past the 30th, 35th, 40th and 45<sup>th</sup>
anniversaries, during which years I demonstrated tatting at many events
(at least four a year).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <em>(I started this blog between the 44th and 45th !) </em> </span>And all of a
sudden, our 50th was ‘around the corner’!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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of memories, mingled with all kinds of emotions!</span></span><br />
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of sorts!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s very powerful and has a big 15.6”
screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And – it’s RED – my favorite
color, which is the main reason I chose it among the gazillion <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>models at the store!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus
the price was right!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m now learning about Windows 8 and finally
have the full Office again, including Publisher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m hoping I can start blogging more often
now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></span><br />
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</span>Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-76708221892688390982014-03-19T21:56:00.001-07:002014-03-19T21:56:15.578-07:00A Little Late . . .<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Belated St. Patrick's Day Greetings!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana;">Here is a shamrock magnet (2" in diameter, smaller than a paperweight, but could be used as one), which I put together awhile ago, using a glass disc that I think is supposed to be used in a large vase, along with several discs that came in a pouch. It was the perfect size to fit in a clear lid I had on hand, and I decorated it around the edge with metallic gold tape, plus scrapbook embellishments inside. I then stuck a magnet on the back. It looks nice on the fridge and I enjoy looking at it every day! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The pattern, of course, is Sharren's famous SCMR Shamrock, which is a nice size. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">And here is a grouping of some 'green' items, just for fun. I haven't shown my 'other' Aran sweater before . It's made with dark green yarn, and I knit it way back in the '90s. I've always enjoyed doing cable patterns. (Can't believe this sweater is 20+ years old already!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Also in the photo is my 'shamrock' plant (actually Oxalis, not native to Ireland, but should be, as it's so perfectly Irish-looking), which continues to survive in its planter and comes inside in winter, I love seeing the white flowers year round.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Paddy Bear' is sporting his green bowler hat and green tie and is showing off the shamrock magnet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Celtic pendant is several years old now, and, of course, was designed by Rosemarie Peel. The big pin shows my name in English and Gaelic Irish ("Catroine"). As I've often mentioned, I always salute my Irish ancestors on St. Patrick's Day, and I was named for my maternal Grandmothe, Katherine Flanagan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>This is a miracle post for me, because for the past several months I haven't been able to get into my Dashboard using my 15" laptop. (It's seven years old, has Vista (!) and IE9. I know it's a 'dinosaur' but it's been a loyal friend and it's still plugging along! </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Therefore, I used my trusty little netbook for my prior post, and never investigated why the Dashboard wouldn't appear in the laptop. But my sweet little netbook crashed last week, and it came as quite a shock (only 2 years old). So when I went to use the laptop to post on Monday, I forgot I couldn't get into the Dashboard!. I had to search all over the forums to find out if there was an answer. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>I was surprised (after spending a lot of time) that it apparently has something to do with the browser IE9, which is not being supported anymore, not even by Microsoft! (Apparrently IE11 is causing problems in blogger, too.) However, a simple solution suggested by several helpful folks was to uncheck the 'Compatibility View' in IE9. Of course, it took me awhile to learn how to do that (I'm not tuned into all these tricks</em> <em>of the trade), and I finally figured it out. I was amazed and delighted when my Dashboard came back to life! So it looks like I can do posts again (not that I post that often - something I hope to remedy in the future). But I now have to look for another computer to replace my netbook, and I will be looking for one with strong graphics capabilities! And I have to continue hold my breath using this laptop, purchased in 2006! </em></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Looking forward to Spring! And the Maple Syrup Festival is coming up soon!</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></em>Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-57299531573606787582014-03-19T13:24:00.000-07:002022-03-29T00:05:00.618-07:00tryingKathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-83985094655701756542014-01-09T10:46:00.000-08:002014-01-09T10:46:28.092-08:00Tribute to Mary Konior<span style="color: #a50021; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><strong>“Maids of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honour” Bell, inspired by Mary Konior</strong></span><br />
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with Mary’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>classic and very popular
‘Queen of Hearts’ motif, which I finally got around to tatting recently, using
Lizbeth Vintage Harvest, size 20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( I had
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connect the picots on the heart pattern and had to really concentrate on where
I was going, but I love the pattern.) <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b><br />
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sister-in-law if she would mind sending the bell to me (they live 300 miles
away), as I never photographed it properly, and I want to put together a photo
gallery of all my different bells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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the mail last Saturday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( But I plan to
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I was delighted to see it again, and it’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in great condition! It’s good to know that the
stiffener I use (Aleene’s Fabric Stiffener)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>does not yellow over the years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had also sprinkled some fine silver glitter </i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">on it before the stiffener dried, and it still sparkles in the light!<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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her, and she does excellent needlework herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Visual Patterns book in 1994, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fell in
love with her ‘Maids of Honor’ edging, and I tatted up some samples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very much wanted to make a bell using her
pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between 1991 and 1998 I created
at least eight different bells using edging patterns that appealed to me, and I
knew that Mary’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Maids of Honour’
design would make a beautiful<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
believe I was successful on my <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>first try
(I seemed to be lucky that way, with all my bell designs!) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and I even incorporated her <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Beauty Spots’ pattern into it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I had some surprises in store when I
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bead .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sometimes put a filigree <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cap on the bead, but I didn’t do that here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I probably couldn’t find a silver one ( in
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silver chain (cut to the proper length with a wire cutter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could also use a ‘real’ jingle bell, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would
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January 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> However, i</span>t’s wonderful that
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of her total dedication to tatting! I particularly appreciated her decision to put diagrams in two colors in her Visual Patterns book. Putting color into diagrams very much improves an understanding of tatting patterns - at least it does for me! </i></b></div>
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with <strong>Lizbeth 20 Christmas Red</strong>, and a very nice ‘star’ scrapbook
embellishment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfect for the 4<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here is a close-up of the slider<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and my own <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">bail</b> (found at craft stores) - a little difficult to see - which clips on to the slider and to
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and concealed, after going through the second key ring (this key ring has the
lobster hook attached) .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (</span>I’ve been thinking
about other options, but for now, this works very well and certainly stays in
place! )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used a clear rubber band to
tuck in the ‘ends’ of the scarf, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
another rubber band on the ‘folded’ end of the scarf to mimic the tuck-in of
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m hoping to wear my red scarf today when I visit my little
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>That park and
playground were the center of my universe back in the 1950s, (it was ‘new’
then, dating to 1947, thanks to the efforts of citizens of the town, including
my mother, who insisted a playground needed to be built) and I’m so glad it’s
still there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wonderful memories!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In May this year they had a small circus
(complete with camel I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw him - just quietly standing there in MY park)!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And last week,
one of those ‘hometown’ carnivals came to set up their cute rides for the
kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These were fundraisers for the
fireworks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is now a waterpod in
the park, and my great-nephews played in it last year!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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biggest event was the Golden Jubilee in 1954, a week-long celebration with
‘home-made’ arcade booths (such as throwing ping pong balls into glass bowls,
and penny throws onto a marked board, to win prizes). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought it was a most magical time in the
park, when I was ten!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took for granted all the work that the
adults did to provide this ‘magical’ setting and celebration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>always reminds me of that time in the ‘50s, although their town was much
larger than mine!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did have a lovely Jubilee
Queen, though (my friend’s 17-year-old sister), but no drama surrounding her,
as in the movie!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a lovely
gal!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She worked as a <strong>switchboard
operator</strong> at the telephone company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Remember those operators?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We simply picked up the big black phone
(attached to the wall, of course) and told the operator the phone number – four
digits preceded by a town name – like “Smithville 5059”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father’s office number in Pittsburgh was a
little larger:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Atlantic 1-9000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still remember it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d bravely call his office to tell him
something ‘really important’! Had to get past the operator there, <u>and</u> his secretary (who was my role model)! Later on, I became a secretary and passed along calls from my own boss's children!</span></div>
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other major historic events, especially this year’s <strong>150<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
anniversary of the</strong> <strong>Civil War Battle of Gettysburg in 1863</strong>, and a lesser known
anniversary of George Washington’s disaster at <strong>‘Fort Necessity’ on July 3, 1754</strong>
at Ligonier, PA, (as he at age 22 led his fellow British troops into an
unfortunate 'skirmish', which kicked off the French/Indian War against the
British (the Seven Years War).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Big
repercussions over that 'skirmish'!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Twenty-one years later he would begin his command of the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>American troops (starting 1775) during the
<strong>Revolutionary War</strong> against the British!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazing stuff).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>My home state of Pennsylvania is the site of
these events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, many other important events
occurred over the years in the strategic area around Pittsburgh, where two major rivers
(Allegheny and Monongahela) meet to form the Ohio! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In fact, Washington (at 21 in 1753) rode right through the ‘wilderness’
woods which eventually (1904)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>became my
little hometown!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was following the
Ohio River to Logstown<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(farther
downriver) , to find an Indian guide to take him up to a French fort near Erie
(a mere 100 miles away!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the way
back, he almost drowned crossing the freezing Allegheny River!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>This is also an update:</strong> I want to add that there is a little known Pittsburgh connection to the <strong>Lewis and Clark saga, also in July. </strong> On <strong>July 15, 1803</strong>, <strong>Meriwether Lewis</strong> <strong>arrived in Pittsburgh</strong> (by horseback, from Washington DC) to pick up the <strong>large</strong> <strong>keelboat</strong> he had contracted to have built for the famous trip up the Missouri River. But the keelboat was not ready as promised, and he had to stay a month and a half in Pittsburgh, waiting for the boat to be completed. It was finally ready by Sept. 1. While in Pittsburgh Lewis wrote important letters to Thomas Jefferson and also received the confirmation letter from <strong>William Clark, who agreed </strong> <strong>to go on the mission</strong>. Clark was living in Kentucky on his family's plantation, and Lewis (and some other boatmen) joined up with Clark in October in Kentucky, then they continued on to St. Louis, where they had to recruit more men and obtain supplies before starting the official exploration to tne Northwest in May of 1804. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I hope you have a pleasant Holiday <u>and</u> weekend!<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></div>
Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-36239951058962554762013-04-01T14:21:00.001-07:002013-04-01T14:21:25.839-07:00Interlocking Rings made with Shuttle - Part 2 of 2<br />
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(Easter Sunday) that Monday, April 1, would be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2;">INTERNATIONAL TATTING
DAY.</span></i></b><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
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UNWIND THE SHUTTLE. so that you can put the end of the thread through the first
ring (the yellow one here), coming UP through the ring. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>This sets up the foundation for the last
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>left. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
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thread up through Ring #1 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all the way
through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Obviously, it’s coming from
the base of Ring #5.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to pull the thread through all the
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showing the shuttle wound very close to the rings. But after rewinding the
shuttle, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you will then pull some thread
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember that the part
of the thread going under the bottom finger is attached to the shuttle, so that
when you tug on the shuttle, that thread moves with the shuttle<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When you start the final
ring, the ‘fussiest’ part is to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">get the
first knot as close to the base of Rings 1 and 5 as possible,</b>. This will
come with practice. I like to use a looser tension for that first knot.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shown here are several
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You can see the last bit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the
foundation thread is showing through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The hook of the shuttle
is merely pointing to the last stitch as it is closing. It is <u>not </u>hooked
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the thread in any way!
Of course, I would be pulling the ring closed to the left. I’m just showing the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ring 6 finally closed</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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can still tug it a bit (but not too tight) and pop the ring up over the top.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know that the first ‘orange’ stitches
seem <span style="color: black;">a little twisted, and that may be something that
can be solved in the future. I’m just happy this works as well as it does!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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instructions are clear!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good luck!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-73547532683108334492013-03-29T09:41:00.002-07:002013-03-29T09:41:46.152-07:00Interlocking Rings made with Shuttle - Part 1 of 2
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last summer, thanks to
the inspiration of other very talented tatters (see story below), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I discovered a way of doing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Celtic interlocking rings using the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">slip-and-slide</i> method of manipulating a
shuttle<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>( I happen to prefer a bobbin shuttle with a hook, but that’s just my choice.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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obsession with these rings at the end of this post and also in my own post of
Aug. 6, 2012:</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span></i></b><a href="http://kathysvictoriantattedlace.blogspot.com/2012/08/success-at-last.html"><i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://kathysvictoriantattedlace.blogspot.com/2012/08/success-at-last.html</span></span></i></a><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: text2;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></i></div>
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because of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘blogaphobia’ due to my
difficulties with posting, even after four years!)</em> , <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am coming out of hiding because I want to
share my ‘discovery’ with my fellow shuttle tatters, especially Fox!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>: ) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text2;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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tutorial</span></u></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">, </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and </span></b><b><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will be doing it in two parts</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I’m
holding my breath as I upload a total of 11 photos in this post! )</em></span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hope to do the second part ASAP, which, of course, shows
connecting the last ring to the first ring - (the part you’re really waiting
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DIFFERENT THREADS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used a VARIEGATED
THREAD (Lizbeth size 20, #621), and it just happened that my first ring was yellow,
and the next ring was pink, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ALSO, I
LEFT THE THREAD ON THE BALL, as I found when I was learning to do these rings,
it was a way of keeping track of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>first ring, especially if I used a single color thread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will just sit there and wait to be cut off
later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the PHOTOS, I put
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that thread from front to back of the ring, creating a loop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However DO NOT PUT THE SHUTTLE THROUGH THE
LOOP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will </span></b><b><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2;">ENLARGE THE LOOP SO
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Secure the loop around
your left hand, in your normal tatting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">position<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>use
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ring is ‘near’ the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shuttle.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When you pull the
shuttle upwards, the thread at the bottom of your hand moves with it. </span></b><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent2;">That’s when you know you have put your hand into the
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of the first ring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(All the rings will
be done from this position, and will start in this area at the base of the
rings)</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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leave a thread space,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>snug the first
stitch <u>near </u>the base, but <u>not too tight</u>ly.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">You can ‘jiggle’
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">’pop’ it
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brought forward over the front of the second ring, which is pink.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Here the thread is in position to be pulled
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> (See PHOTOS 2 and 3)</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">RING
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pendants, and her VERY unique and ATTRACTIVE way of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>building ’layered’ effects on those motifs
and pendants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rachel is a needle tatter, and she generously
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came across <b>Karen Cabrera’s</b> <b>blog</b> (“Entre Lanzaderas”, in both
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use a SHUTTLE to do the interlocking rings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore I realized that they CAN <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be done with a shuttle, even though there may
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m finally getting around to showing my <strong>3-D ball ornaments</strong> from the early ‘90s. All three are the same pattern, but the hanger is at a different spot on one of them (next ball), which makes it look different.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As with most things I make, there’s a long story involved with these, but I’m in between shows right now and don’t have time to explain. I know that’s frustrating for you, and it is for me, too. But I wanted to show you my now 20-year-old creations and that they CAN keep their shape after stiffening - although there are some tricks of the trade involved. I'll eventually discuss these techniques!</span></span><br />
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</i>We had a great time at the Vicary Mansion last Saturday (2-8 pm). <br />
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The mansion was beautifully decorated. Admission is free (although donations are always welcome!) and the staff knocks </span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">themselves out to provide free cookies and punch to the visitors!</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (It’s like going to a wedding, there were so many varieties of cookies!) Also, they provide a wonderful meal for us vendors and demonstrators, which is greatly appreciated! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have a children’s craft area, and there are huge, live trees in most of the rooms, including ours, which was on the second floor. I don’t know how they get those tall trees up the big staircase! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m a little rushed right now because the big 2-day event is coming up this weekend (Sat. and Sun.) at <b>Old Economy. </b>I’m excited because we’re going to be in the large (huge, actually) <b>Feast Hall </b>with all the other vendors. The first time we were in that hall upstairs was for the 2006 Christmas event when they had a “Civil War Fair” and went all-out to create a mid-1860s feel to the room, complete with colorful banners hanging from the ceiling and a band playing music of the era. There were many Civil War enactors in costume (women and men), and it was a magical evening!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><u>WREATH NO. 1</u></strong></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in 2007 I tatted this little <b>Patti Duff motif (only 1.5 in. across)</b>, but did not add any beads. </span></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The self-adhesive stars are from my scrapbook stash, added for this photo</span> </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the <b>bow pin </b>(a tie-tack type) has been on the wreath for 5 years, together with the <b>‘ringing’ bell </b>which is a <b>button </b>from La Mode. I found the pin at a thrift store, and was pleased it had a ‘loop’ for hanging the bell. </span><b><i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’ve been collecting bow pins ever since, but it’s difficult to find those that have that extra loop. Of course, I also bought several bell ‘buttons‘ at JoAnn’s.</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>My Photo Stamp 2007</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em><strong>(First tatting on a stamp? <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>
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<em><span lang="EN">I thought it would be really cool to have a ‘matching’ stamp for the envelope, u</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">sing a then new service: </span></em><br />
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<span lang="EN">I was so delighted (giddy, actually) with the way the photo looked on the stamp site’s order form that I confirmed the order without realizing how much the stamps actually cost! The stamp may say 41 cents, but the actual cost of each stamp was 80 cents!!!! Quite a price to pay for an ego trip. I possibly can claim that I am the first person to put tatting on a stamp(?). </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Notice I I did NOT say it was the first tatting ever shown on an <u>official </u>US stamp</em> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: green;">I'd have to say that not too many of my recipients even noticed my stamp (except my tatting buddies!) </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black;"> I recently found this motif (in an unknown thread) sitting unadorned in my stash of tatted pieces . But when I recently added the one-piece ‘bow and bells’ pin that I found in my ‘Christmas pins’ box, it added just the right finishing touch! </span></span><br />
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I found another amazing bow pin at the thrift store, which came with a <strong>jingle bell</strong> attached! I love it when I find these things!<br />
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So now I have <strong>three wreath pins</strong> to wear for the holidays!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">I have a busy two weeks ahead, with two shows coming up this weekend and next (<b>Vicary Mansion and Old Economy</b>).</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m also trying to ‘refresh’ my Christmas tree, as it has been looking a little 'tired' lately. I recently found some tatted ornaments I had taken photos of but never put back on the tree! (I wondered what had happened to them!) Plus I’m trying to make some pendants to sell. </span></span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;">This is one of the 17 preserved historic buildings built between 1825-1830, of the Harmonist Society at their final home, named “Economy“ (now Ambridge, PA), north of Pittsburgh, PA, along the Ohio River</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;">This building (known as the <b>Mechanics Building</b>) </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">is a sentimental favorite of our tatting group</span></span></span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> because the representative “</span></span><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">School Room</span></span></span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">”, located in the corner section, 1<sup>st</sup> floor (with the five windows shown here) </span></span><b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">was our ‘home’ for almost 20 years</span></span></span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana;">. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">and it was a perfect size room for our demonstrations and exhibits of our tatted lace. Around 2008 the school room was moved to another area, and ’our’ room was returned to its original purpose - the shoe shop. So we have had to move to other areas of the Village to set up our tables and displays. The original <b>Harmonist printing press </b>is also in this building and is a working press! Also of importance is the </span><b><span style="font-size: small;">Wine Cellar, located in the basement.</span> </b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;">There are several long gravel paths in the Village. This one links the <b>vegetable</b> <b>garden </b>to the huge <b>Feast Hall </b>(only partly visible here), with flowers lining the path. </span></span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: small;">I have no idea what these amazing red ‘snowball’ flowers are.</span></span><br />
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The Erntefest is a quieter Festival, emphasizing the everyday lives of the Harmonists and is not a ’craft show’. We were flattered to be invited to participate, especially since there is no evidence that the Harmonists did any tatting. We have become popular with the visitors over the years, and we represent needlework of the Victorian Era, which is when the Village was active.<br />
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I hope you have a good weekend! </span><br /></span><br /></span><br /></b><br /></span><br /></span><br /></span><br />Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-62287676822546563692012-10-11T11:25:00.001-07:002012-10-11T11:37:28.569-07:00Star Pendants<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN"><br />
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<strong>I was pleased to see that it made a nice size pendant (about 2“ across), which, as usual, I mounted on a black velvet paper circle. Then I sewed on the beads and pulled the threads to the back of the black velvet paper, which makes it very convenient to hide the threads!</strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">OLD ECONOMY ERNTEFEST</span></strong><br />
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<strong>I will be doing a separate post of our tatting event at Old Economy (Sept. 29-30), as Blogger doesn't like me to post too many photos at one time! </strong><br />
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all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was merely practicing the basics
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has been posting about recently at ‘Allison’s Tatting Blog’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="http://tattingfarmchick.blogspot.com/2012/09/frilly-rose-pattern.html"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://tattingfarmchick.blogspot.com/2012/09/frilly-rose-pattern.html</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> ). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">T</span>his pendant WAS planned and is a tribute to Rachel Jackson
(The Piney Woods Tatter </span><a href="http://pineywoodstatter.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: blue;">http://pineywoodstatter.blogspot.com/</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who inspired me to learn
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‘layered tatting’, where she beautifully enhances a tatted motif (or even commercial
jewelry), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with several rounds of overlapping and
interwoven tatted chains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also artistically
uses beads to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enhance her designs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
has a way of visualizing how she will ‘construct’ this layered work, and
creates one-of-a-kind pieces!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
especially loves to enhance exquisite brooches (such as cameos) that she finds
at estate sales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her work is amazing! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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metal rim of my pendant here - just one row of chains to ‘match’ the interlocking
rings; but I’m fascinated by the concept and hope to try it sometime. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would
be the ‘foundation’ row.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is the original pendant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m always on
the lookout for pendants with pretty frames around them, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>having empty or ‘removable’ centers so I can
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prefer that the pendants come with bails
attached, and appreciate the larger bails, so that a variety of necklaces <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can fit through them.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span></span></div>
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am glad to see some cooler weather come in (maybe a little too cool?), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i>
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Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-92187543311677103062012-09-19T19:53:00.000-07:002012-09-19T20:06:22.887-07:00Pendants - All Kinds!<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: accent2;">Featuring:<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: accent2;">- First Doo-Dad<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-themecolor: accent2;">- Interwoven chains<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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2-Layered Flower</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Here is
my</strong> <strong>first
doo-dad tatted item</strong></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>– a pendant -</strong></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">and I give all the credit to Sue (“His
Kid</span>”)</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><a href="http://hiskid66.blogspot.com/2012/09/doodad-snowflake-patterns.html"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://hiskid66.blogspot.com/2012/09/doodad-snowflake-patterns.html</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was
amazed how quickly Sue designed three snowflake patterns using these round
doo-dads, and then wrote up and generously shared her patterns with us!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I am in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pendant mode</b> at the moment, so
I altered Sue’s snowflake pattern #1 by simply leaving off the thrown-off rings
(therefore only one shuttle is needed). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
I did a chain over the picots for a scalloped effect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No cutting and tying is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>necessary to start the second round<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It was fun to tat around this doo-dad, and I had no problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sue’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>knot
counts fit around the doo-dad perfectly in Lizbeth size 20 thread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this motif fits perfectly onto my little
black velvet discs!<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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influence here, including helping me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>find the doo-dads at Hobby Lobby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I now have a new pendant pattern, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thanks to your hard work in designing the
snowflake!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love this and can’t wait to do it in</em><span style="color: #c0504d; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: accent2;"> </span><em>many
colors!</em></span></span></b></div>
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show different chains added <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the basic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>interlocking rings, (depending on placement of picots) which <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I first saw and admired on Rachel Jackson’s
blog (the Piney Woods</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tatter)</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://pineywoodstatter.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:http://pineywoodstatter.blogspot.com/</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three of these motifs have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">interwoven</b>
chains (utilizing two shuttles) attached to the interlocking rings,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the motif<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in the upper left<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">simple chain</b> going over the
picots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are techniques that Rachel
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">A special
thanks again to Karen Cabrera</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">, from whose video I learned how
to do the interlocking rings using a shuttle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(</span></span><a href="http://entrelanzaderas.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://entrelanzaderas.blogspot.com/</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> )<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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rings have been my ‘go to’ pattern for the past couple of months, (actually an
obsession) as I practiced and practiced to perfect them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have MANY ‘sets’ of these basic rings,
waiting for further enhancement, to be made into pendants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">Motif #6, Third Round</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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motif (also in Tropical Punch) is a very easy pattern which creates two layers
in one pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jon Yusoff<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>links<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to the pattern in her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>August 9,
2012 blog post</span>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><a href="http://tatsaway.blogspot.com/2012/08/experiments.html"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://tatsaway.blogspot.com/2012/08/experiments.html</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">We have a
big tatting event coming up next weekend (Sept. 29-30) – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Erntefest at Old Economy</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span><a href="http://www.oldeconomyvillage.org/"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.oldeconomyvillage.org/</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Old Economy Village</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has been weathering its financial crisis
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is now<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being run by many dedicated volunteers who
have stepped up to the plate after <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
Commonwealth of PA cut funds to several historic sites<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>in 2009</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
a picturesque and interesting place to visit, and a very pleasant site to demo
tatting.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tatting Anniversary<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">The
Erntefest (“Harvest Festival”) event will be my <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">22<sup>nd</sup> anniversary</b> of my very first session tatting with
our group in 1990.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So much has happened in 22 years!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
never would have believed back then how tatting was going to take over my life,
or that I’d have something called a blog, and that tatting would become popular
again and go in amazing new directions!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"><strong>We’ll also be back at Vicary Mansion and Old Economy in
December.</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">,
I will have to go into ‘pendant production mode’ to build up my inventory!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have many patterns now to choose from!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-8862101718177990762012-08-06T20:36:00.002-07:002012-08-06T20:57:37.589-07:00Success at Last!<h3><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Interlocking Rings!<o:p></o:p></span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plus - Vicary Mansion event coming up this weekend.</span></h3><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXixzk4UmetZ5Dl9m1WJt5mmhOGbXGkg8eBNOOzmIxez4C2xp9sG0JI0d4DD5PziKpbhnGjvb4KTbJQezps5Plpy9jl9WSH3BsTyPdEz4a43NOEeJWpYqGdEDovs5mFWBHvcyfEoPn-Ro/s1600/100_9977.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXixzk4UmetZ5Dl9m1WJt5mmhOGbXGkg8eBNOOzmIxez4C2xp9sG0JI0d4DD5PziKpbhnGjvb4KTbJQezps5Plpy9jl9WSH3BsTyPdEz4a43NOEeJWpYqGdEDovs5mFWBHvcyfEoPn-Ro/s320/100_9977.JPG" width="248" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I FINALLY was able to join the first and last rings correctly on these interlocking rings!</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was quite envious when Frivole (see link below) and others were successfully joining their first and last rings!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, of course, Frivole went even farther in designing a couple</span> of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">motifs using the rings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">determined</i> to finally conquer this technique, and now I have! What you aren’t seeing are my MANY unsuccessful efforts at tatting this – not to mention my sore wrist<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I used Lizbeth Spring Garden in size 20 and tatted 24 stitches in each ring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That number of stitches seems to ‘stay put’ as I tat, although the final ring is still a little ‘fussy’ for me to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should mention here that I did not finger tat the last ring; I rewound my shuttle, which is easy to do</strong>.</span> </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I mounted this 8-ring motif on one of my black velvet discs, which is attached to one of the MANY pendants I have purchased at craft stores for the purpose of putting tatting on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Seriously, I could open a jewelry shop!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do try to buy them on sale!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This pendant (the only one I have of this kind) is a simple round plastic disk (but has some weight to it) which happened to have these silver (not pink) rhinestones affixed in a circle around the edge, and had an indented area which had a picture of a flower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I simply removed the picture and inserted</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my velvet disk. </span></span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I am as elated at accomplishing these rings as I was when I tatted my first ring 23 years ago (August 1989) and made my first 3-D items (early 1990s). These are just simple rings, but interlocking them gives them a unique look, and puts them into the ‘Celtic’ category. I love all the techniques such as overlapped rings and interwoven Celtic chains and also motifs made in sections that are later ‘intertwined’. They elevate tatting to another artistic level!</strong></em></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rachel Colvin Jackson<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karen Cabrera </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I became aware of Rachel Jackson's blog (Piney Woods Tatter<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://pineywoodstatter.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://pineywoodstatter.blogspot.com/</span></a> </span>) last December and I was SO fascinated with the amazing, unique jewelry she was making or adorning with these rings as a ‘base’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, she’s a needle tatter, and I wasn’t sure it was possible to do the rings easily with a shuttle.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then last month, Frivole ( </span><a href="http://leblogdefrivole.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://leblogdefrivole.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> )discovered Rachel’s work, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and then searched on the internet for a way to do the rings with a shuttle – and found <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karen Cabrera's video showing how to do these interlocking rings – using a single shuttle!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can find Karen’s video (#77) among her AMAZING <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>list of over 100 videos(!) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://entrelanzaderas.blogspot.com/2010/10/clases-de-frivolite-tatting-lessons.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://entrelanzaderas.blogspot.com/2010/10/clases-de-frivolite-tatting-lessons.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( By the way, Karen tats ‘reverse Riego’ style, so it may look a little different to those who do ‘slip and slide’, but, of course, she’s forming the same double stitch knot.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karen’s blog can</span> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">be found at </span><a href="http://entrelanzaderas.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://entrelanzaderas.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my necklace display stand, topped by a miniature <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hat (possibly from Hobby Lobby).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lace collar is the one I’ve often shown (designed by Gloria Crowther), and was made back in 1990. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wore it to my niece’s Christening, and she is now 21 and in college!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The collar has decorated many things – either my costumes or my displays.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have more to say about the interlocking rings, but unfortunately, I have a busy week and also have to get ready for our tatting group’s event at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Vicary Mansion in Beaver County, PA<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>on Saturday, August.<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>So I will elaborate more in a future post</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you click on the “Latest News” tab on the website, and scroll down a bit, you’ll see part of our tatting display from a couple of years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rooms in the mansion are much larger than they appear in the photos!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other tabs will explain more about the history of the Mansion (finished in 1829) and all the events they hold there.</span>Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-12975055596390137042012-07-04T18:59:00.001-07:002012-07-04T18:59:48.186-07:00Happy 4th, U.S.A.!<h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Bell (3" high) from 1992</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Decorated (for today) with red, white, blue ribbon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">(borrowed from my 'wedding bell' display. It usually has flowers on it)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Tatted in Cebelia DMC size 30</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Includes crystal ball clapper on gold chain</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is one of several different 3-D bells that I made back in 1992, two years after I learned to tat, and I became fascinated with the idea of 3-D tatting, since there were very few 3-D patterns out there back then. I wanted to prove it could be done. I used to crochet 3-D items. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This bell was adapted from a medallion which appeared in the <strong>1992 Christmas</strong> <strong>Ideas</strong> edition of <em><strong>Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest magazine</strong>.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The designer of the medallion is <strong>Luella Rossow</strong>, and even now I'm not familiar with her name. In the magazine her name is in tiny print, along with other designers of the different ornaments on the Christmas tree shown on the opposite page. Hers is the only tatted ornament on the tree, and you can see only the upper half of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Unfortunately, the actual pattern pages (in the back of the magazine) do NOT show the names of the designers, which is sad. I sure hope they've changed that policy! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>I was going to write a longer post, but I am going to get this one in now, as I have had a problem getting it posted at all. (New interface issues.)</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana;"><strong>We're enjoying watching the fireworks live from Pittsburgh on television, as I'm writing this. Hope you had a good holiday! </strong></span><br />
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<br />Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-88987269887307839412012-04-08T14:16:00.000-07:002012-04-08T14:16:26.540-07:00Easter - April 8, 2012<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I’m doing this quick post today to wish a HAPPY EASTER to those of you who celebrate the holiday. Hope you’re having a nice day!</strong> </span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You’ve seen the <strong>collar</strong> (by Gloria Crowther) before, and the<strong> beaded eggs</strong>. I added my <strong>Pysanky egg</strong>, which I decorated way back around 1975. It is one of my prize possessions, and it rarely leaves the China cabinet where it stays safe and secure! I learned early on that doing the wax-resist eggs was way too labor intensive for me! This one took about 12 hours to do! I did a few others that were not as detailed, and still have those also! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have to sign off now, as we’re on our way to visit my MIL! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>I’ve been trying all week to get a post in about the Maple Festival, which was held last weekend and coincided with International Tatting Day, but I kept getting distracted with so many things that had to be done around the house, inside and out. I'll try to do that post next week! We were happy we had nice weather for it!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span> Kathy Niklewiczhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03471658272689112787noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565269898418464234.post-15826010533254114852012-03-16T14:15:00.000-07:002012-03-16T14:15:10.856-07:00A Fancy Green Fan for St Patrick's Day 2012<span lang="EN"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Sure an’ it’s St. Patrick’s Day again!</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>However, the focal point of the photo is this fabulous <em>NEW GREEN</em> <em>FAN</em> that I found last week at - of all places - our local dollar store, among the St. Pat’s decorations. </strong></span><br />
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This amazing fan is embellished with shiny green sequins on the fabric, and has a black base with a fancy gold design. <br />
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In the store it was hanging in its folded position, so I was astounded at how attractive it was when I opened it up, and I was especially amazed that it unfolded into a complete half-circle. Of course, I HAD to purchase it - for the grandiose sum of one dollar !! It really sparkles in the light! This is a very well-made fan, and I feel so ‘lucky’ that I came across it! <br />
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<em>Fans aren’t usually associated with St. Patrick’s Day, but this one certainly is the right color! And it will be a great accessory for one of my Victorian costumes for our tatting events - and also would make a great display item! </em><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Of course, I will be adding tatting to it, but I couldn’t possibly have completed it before Saturday - although I know that many of you COULD have done so!</span><br />
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<em>I have to decide which edging I want to make, but I know it will be with gold metallic thread. Even a simple ‘hens and chicks’ would be spectacular. So many ‘possibilities’ ! No doubt I’ll add tatting to the inner circle as well. I prefer the DMC gold thread on a spool, which is equivalent to size 30.</em> <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #38761d;">OTHER ITEMS IN PHOTO</span></strong><br />
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The <em><span style="color: #38761d;"><strong>teacup and saucer</strong></span></em> were purchased a few years ago at a quaint, old-fashioned pharmacy/gift store in a small town about 40 miles north of here. We just were out driving one day and came across the town and store. I couldn’t resist purchasing the cup and saucer there. <br />
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The ‘pillow’ has a large <em><strong><span style="color: #38761d;">crocheted doily</span></strong></em> draped over it. It is the most unusual and attractive piece of crochet I have EVER seen. I purchased it at an ‘antique lace’ booth at a local fair many years ago. I want to write a post about it, because it is SO different from any crochet I’ve ever seen.<br />
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The candle is just a place for me to hang a pretty <em><strong><span style="color: #38761d;">‘cross’ ornament</span></strong></em> with green beads. I purchased it in an Irish shop in Alexandria, VA, one of my favorite towns to visit in the DC area. I’ve always thought the cross could be ‘copied’ in tatting. <br />
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Of course, the <em><strong><span style="color: #38761d;">tatted doily</span></strong></em> is one I’ve shown quite often in my blog - something I purchased several years ago at a local shop. <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #38761d;"><em>WARM WEATHER THIS YEAR IN MARCH!</em></span></strong><br />
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I’m definitely enjoying the weather for March this year, which has been quite warm - and seems to be breaking records here in the Northeast. This year the parade in Pittsburgh will be actually ON St. Patrick’s Day, and there probably will be a record-breaking crowd there as well! <br />
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We have other plans for the day, but I will be thinking about my Irish ancestors! <br />
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