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I couldn't believe that my last post was about 2 months ago. I knew this would happen.... Sometimes I get lazy to post my adventures in Tatting, Hardanger and CQ, my three passions at this time. This weekend was rainy and luckily the soccer games got canceled which meant that I was able to stitch. I have two pictures to share. The first one is a set of small tatted motifs from Patti Duff's book that I will be using for Georgia Seitz's CQ blocks and the second one is the lesson 5 homework from my Basic CQ course at StitchMAP.

Some Tatting to Share

As I mentioned in my yesterday's post, I am sharing my tatted heart. It is the Hearts Desire pattern by Susan Fuller. It was a real nice pattern to tat. I wonder why I never did that before, even though I had the pattern in my binder. The second motif is from a picture I saw in one of the blogs I was viewing. I wish I had the pattern. Both are tatted with Carribean Blue size 20 Lizbeth thread. Hopefully I will get to do the TIAS Day 7 tomorrow.

I want to get back to Hardanger homework and learning some CQ stitches this weekend.

Finally .... all caught up

I got a lot accomplished today. I am all caught up with Jane Eborall's TIAS days 4, 5, and 6. I did a small vintage edging in Altin Basak size 50 thread. I also worked on Battatter's ball cover (test tatting it basically) and completed a heart by Susan Fuller. I ran out of thread for the test tatting. I could not get the scan for the heart and therefore, that will be posted later. The rest are here for your viewing. Now I can move on completing my Hardanger lesson. But, I think it will have to wait until the weekend.

Test Tatting
Vintage Edging
TIAS Day 6
TIAS Day 5
TIAS Day 4

Behind things....

I am now really behind the things I wanted to accomplish this week. I wanted to do Janes TIAS and I have to get caught up. This week will be a little more easy (at least I hope). I wanted to tat Carol's (batatter) ornament cover, do my Hardanger lesson 4, start on tatting an edging. Sorry folks, nothing to show this week. I did get some tatting done, but it is not worth showing since my tension was totally off. It was hard to unpick since it was a vintage thread and I kept on feeling that if I pull tight, the thread will break. I will certainly have something to show later this week.

I am on a roll....

I am really on a roll with tatting these days. I usually try to make the best of the time I get to tat. Today I had the time, but was not able to concentrate and do anything. I was way too tired. I completed this heart (Nellie's Heart by Teri Dusenbury) in size 20 white 6-ply cordonnet thread yesterday but, did not get the computer to update the blog. I think I am giving this to a friend as well.

First Weekend of 2010

I thought I could get more tatting done, but that did not happen. DH and I spent time with some friends over the weekend and the rest of the weekend I was doing the normal household chores. I wanted to complete Day 2 and Day 3 of TIAS. I accomplished that. Here are my creations. Hopefully I will have something more to show you later this week.

Day2

Day3

Tiring Day

This week has been tiring!! Even though I did not take much of a vacation last month, may be I was more relaxed. I know..... I spent time doing the crafty things I like. Anyway, I havetwo eye-candy - one is Day 1 of TIAS and the second one is something I am making for a friend. Hope she likes it.