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I was doin' pretty good with the whole new post each morning thing, right? I thought so. Then, my stinkin' printer/scanner decided that it no longer wanted to let me print or scan through WiFi. Then, it didn't want to connect via USB to my desktop.
Without pictures, I figured there was no point in a post, but how am I supposed to get used to a schedule if I don't go through the motions, right?
Well, yesterday, I tried using the webcam. Note that I haven't used one in probably ten years (at least), didn't play with settings, and am an incredibly shaky person.
On Saturday, I received my copy of Ms. Marilee Rockley's Tatted Jewelry! (Did I mention she SIGNED it? Eeee!!!). I was in the middle of doing something and wouldn't let myself open it until I finished --good idea because I got lost for several hours after I ripped open the envelope!
I dove right in and started making things right away. Here are the three.
These are "Keyed Up" on page 23 done in LizBeth 662 and 605, both include size 11/0 Czech glass seed beads.
(The green one that you see half of is in 144).
This one is in Color 109 --and wanted to jump off of the paper and lid that I'd laid it on for the picture! LOL.
Those that have the book may notice that I omitted the top ring. Personally, I like how they look better without it --until a jump ring is added. Oops. I knew it was there for a reason! LOL. I already have more of these to shows and I don't think I'll be stopped with this pattern any time soon. Perhaps because, when ordering the book, I was drawn to this pattern and almost ordered it at the same time in PDF format?
Well, hopefully I'll get the stupid printer/scanner (Stephanie, insulting it won't get it to work for you...) to work for me later --And actually scan at the right size which has long been a problem for me. It appears, though, that I'm not the only one with this problem. I'm thinking of blaming Epson, but I'd rather blame Windows.
Enough rambling... If I want to add that to my list, I need to get started like yesterday! ;-)
Love and happy tatting to all!
♥,
Stephanie Grace
I think I've become addicted to just tatting without patterns! New threads came yesterday and I dove right in and just started tatting. I'm not sure if this is just to see where I end up or just to test the threads to see how I really feel about the colors, but I enjoy it nonetheless. :-)
First to be played with was Color 625 (LizBeth).
Just a little, bitty thing. When I set it down as it is in the scan, I saw the top of a lady's head with a flower at her hairline, and then I saw the eyes... The bottom ring is a mouth should be... Do you see it too? Either way, this all ended up putting Little Guitars by Van Halen in my head, so I'm calling it the Senorita doodle. LOL. I might toy with her more at some point... Maybe?
Then, I opened up Color 665 and began freestylin' again...
Definitely needs to be played with, but I kind of like it.
The last thing I have to show is from two days ago...
I'm sure that everyone knows that Mrs. Jane Eborall has announced the next Tat it and See. I have a tendency to sit out, usually terrified of a technique shared before it starts. Well, I'm sick of missing out! Once again, Mrs. Eborall put up a technique to practice prior to TIAS starting and, once again, I felt sad because she only gives instructions for shuttles (I understand that completely and I don't mean that in a negative way. LOL).
I looked at it, though, and thought, If I'm not afraid to try older shuttle techniques and figure them out for the needle, why should this be any different? So, I grabbed a needle.
I'm not incredibly sure that it's done right, but this is what I ended up with. It's done in LizBeth 20, color 144. So, here's what I did:
My brain already translates shuttle thread as needle thread and ball thread as ball thread (see how smart I can be? LOL), so I brought the ball thread UP through the picot and then simply ran the needle through. Repeat for the other picots and you're done.
Here's a closer look:
Again, I'm not sure if this is right. It appears to be right to me so I'm sharing it. If it's wrong or Mrs. Eborall would like me to take this down for any reason, just let me know. :-) If it is right, I'm hoping it will encourage at least one needle tatter to tackle a shuttle trick today! (Or tackle a shuttle!). ;-)
Other than that, I haven't anything to show. I don't know where my day went yesterday and, since I have nothing to show for it, I'm pretty sure it never happened. ;-)
♥,
Stephanie Grace
I was going to let this sit around until tomorrow, but I just couldn't wait. LOL. I played more with the doodle that made me think of an anchor... I still need to play with it more, but I can't figure out what's bothering me about it... Have you any thoughts about what it could be? Perhaps a bigger bottom? I just don't know...
Well, here it is with one of the cards I mentioned earlier. I didn't attach it and it decided to put itself at more of an angle when I flipped it onto the scanner, but you get the gist... I hope. ;-)
Hmm... You look silly tilting your head like that... Perhaps I should scan it straight? LOL. ;-)
Love and happy tatting to all!
<3,
Stephanie Grace
The new modem arrived yesterday, so I'm hoping to get things on track. (With the old modem, it wouldn't cooperate with my wireless router and to go from laptop to desktop, I'd have to plug in which one I wanted and call ... then call again when I went back to the first one. It was irritating as anything!).
Back to tatting... I've been just toying around. All the patterns I have and nothing was screaming out, so I grabbed threads that I don't care much for and just had fun...
The navy blue one is designed by Mary Konior. It's around page 70, I think, in Tatting With Visual Patterns. I want to say Masquerade, but I could be wrong (okay; new goal... write down the pattern information when it's complete in case I'm feeling lazy when I blog about it. LOL). The final chain got twisted, of course, but when I did it again in obnoxious green, it came out fine, so go figure...
The pink with the heart is just a simple little thing to help me be sure I was adding a bead on the right way. ;-) I kind of like the tiny little fella...
The other pink is just there because I wasn't sure how the color would be changed in the tiny one and wanted something to show the color.
The bright green was me just letting the thread go where it wanted to. I think it looks like an anchor; do you see it to? I think I might actually toy with it some more and make the bottom part bigger. I have some nautical-themed note cards that an anchor might work well with. ;-)
This was another of me just playing around. Of course, the stinkin' snowflake is facing the backside of the main ring. >.< I kept on truckin' though ...then a chain didn't want to tighten enough, so I gave in and cut it off the ball. When I went to scan it, though, I realized that I like it a lot, so I just might have to make another attempt at this one. I like how, in the scan, the snowflake points look like they're attached to the ring --they're not, it just sits as though it is which makes me happy. LOL.
Well, time to move on with my day. I have a new book of patterns arriving today, so hopefully that will inspire some more playing around.
Oh! I'm also working on another project using the bright green Mary Konior motif, so maybe I'll have that to show tomorrow? (I got smart with that one and, since other bits are being repeated, I scanned and planned out the positioning on the computer before tatting... I'm scaring myself with all of this playing around! I'm too meek and mild for this stuff! LOL).
Love and happy tats to all!
<3,
Stephanie Grace
I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season! I am so glad that's it all over and done with and now I can relax and work on trying to figure out my health situation (nothing serious).
Most of my tatting in the last few weeks were these:
I included one with every Christmas card that went out (even poked a hole in each card so just the snowflake was incorporated into the awesome New York Giants/winter field scene...). ;-)
I was pretty distracted after the first batch since I'd gotten that flip figured out and the amazingly generous Ms. Fox sent me Clovers, plastic bobbins, and some Finca thread!!!! :-* Thank you! THANK YOU! THANK YOU MS. FOX!!!! The Clovers are a delight and feel much more comfortable than the metal shuttle I was using --especially since I was terrified about cutting myself removing and replacing the bobbin! It feels so sharp to me! :-/ So, yes, I am still shuttling too! :-) Most of my rings still don't seem to want to close properly (completely, I mean), but I'm gettin' there!!
Of course, I am still playing with my needles as well! Even venturing into tatting without a pattern or just letting the thread tell me how it wants to be shaped. Yup... I want to "design" at least one thing in 2012.
Aside from all that, thanks to Ms. Diane's sharing of her beautiful creations, I've been looking into Romanian Point Lace. That might just be another 2012 thing to be accomplished. ;-)
Well, this is getting long so I'm just going to post it. My new modem should be here tomorrow so I'm going to try and post more frequently... I'm getting myself on a schedule in life (which is VERY good) and the modem will hopefully let my laptop online which will make blogging more frequently much easier for me, I think... We shall see, right?
Love to you all!
<3,
Stephanie Grace
I just posted this as my Facebook status and realized that, while shouting in from the Facebook rooftops is lovely, this is better shared here:
I swear that the tatting community (not tattoos, LOL) is the best community in the world filled with the most caring, generous people! They are all so wonderful! As if creating pretty things isn't rewarding enough, being part of such an awesome community is certainly well worth the hours and hours of frustration endured in learning and untangling threads! :-) Surely, there is no better community in the whole of the universe and beyond!
Thank you all for the inspiration both in tatting and otherwise. You are all amazing and I cannot tell you how fortunate I feel that I was lucky enough to find my way to the world of tatting. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Love to all,
Stephanie Grace
