tatting & ~knitting & my HallooBoobies entry [cleavage alert]
Not my contest, someone else's
Fangs, Fur & Fey are having a belated 3rd anniversary contest
Go to their site for instructions. Grand prize is a Kindle. Whoot!
Now to Picture fun
Rebecca/Tatmom03's cross - burgundy DMC perle 8. I start with a chain at the top. I leave a picot (using a large safety pin), so that I can end on a split ring & used the ends in a tassel.
Here's my entry in last week's BoobieWed contest (for Breast Cancer Awareness).
Not tatting, but a gorgeous State Fair Entry. And look, there's a matching hat!
TotusMel complained that she never got to see her pieces 'in the wild'. So I spent some time finding wild places & taking photos. The 1st one is just of me, wearing the pendant.
Then, one of my wearing the pendant on a pin (it's on my c.1812 pinafore that I was wearing on Saturday).
I put it on a tree (the one that the rughooker used to show off her ornaments)
Mum's the word
Do you ever wonder is someone is out of her gourd?
Look, the pendant made a friend!
I loaned it to one of the trolls in the Village of Yesteryear & had the dickens of a time getting it back (those trolls are known pranksters).
Luckily, that's a very patient duck.
I'm keeping my eyes open for other 'wild' places to put the pendant.
Last year, I ordered a basket for my tatting. Janet made a lipped basket with a secure lid and, well, here's a couple pictures.
A tisket, a tasket, a custom tatting basket
As you can see, it has a bar across the handle, so I can put a ball of thread there to either load my shuttle or as the chain thread, without it rolling away or getting tangled. The bar is high enough that I can fit a ball of size 10 knit-cro sheen without it hitting the lid handle. She made three baskets, although with shorted handles and sold two of them by the 1st Saturday of the fair. She started another basket for me, with a longer handle, and the 3rd one sold. If she'd had a 4th one, she would have sold that one, too.
I did a little knitting (Operation Gratitude, care packages for our soldiers in Afghanistan & elsewhere). I made a couple scarves. The first one is about 3' long and 3" wide. The 2nd one is about 2.5' long & 5" wide.
I have a horrid cough and am quite tired (I went home Wednesday & immediately went to sleep, woke up long enough to eat supper & then back to sleep - after 2 nights of full sleep!). I stayed home yesterday & that's when I finished the 2nd scarf. I didn't go to gaming either; I needed the rest & why chance infecting the others.
If you're interested this is the yarn that I used:
Here's a shot of the Fair, not far off the midway. Can you see the oak tree? It's huge.
Another ride photo:
2 comments:
That sure is a lot of "wild" that pendant got into! I love that bar on the basket handle, so clever.
It's great. It holds quite a bit of thread and it's a lot more discreet for my historical demos.
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