This pattern is by Mary Konior. In looking at my other books by her I have noticed that she has another pattern that is simular to this one. I made this out of a sample of King Tut Quilting thread that Gina sent to me and some pink of same kind of thread that I bought from Deb Arnold in Hector.
So now ...I am at loose ends...I wonder what I will do next....I don't even know let alone you...LOL

Hi all,
I haven't done too much lately but I did finish this doily this past week. It is from my Japanese book entitled "Tatted Fashion" by Teiko Fujito and page 11 in the book. It was made in size 30 thread white, and a specially dyed size 30 thread by Pam from http://keltickrafts.com/ if you would like to order some thread from her. I had ordered this thread last year for a class I was taking in Hector last year...but I got the thread the day of the event and by that time I had already left the house and was in Hector when it was placed in my mailbox...so after the Hector event I made a necklace, bracelet and earrings out of this same dye lot in size 10 with some pretty swarski crystals that my friend Erin sent to me. I wore that whole set up to the banquet dinner at the Palmetto's Tat Day or should I say weekend event. I think if you go to the Palmetto's site and click on Erin as one of the teachers I believe there is a picture of me and Erin together before we went inside to attend the banquet dinner. Here is that link....http://www.palmettotatters.org/events/TatDays2006/Teachers/ErinHolloway.shtml
If you put your cursor right over Erin's picture you will see other pictures of Erin...including me and her before the banquet...enjoy!!
I have also finished another doily recently but since that doily isn't published yet...I feel I can't share it with you all...all together now say....WAAAAAwwwwaaaaWaawaaaaa I want to see it....LOL.
Hope everybody is having a NICE and SAFE, Memorial Weekend.

I Just finished my Milanese Heart over the weekend. I am happy with my color choice that I used to make the heart. Erin...how is your heart coming along????

I also got a couple of neato surprises in the mail. The first surprise was a package from Carol Amich in Indiana. The story goes like this...On Friday my daughter retrieved the mail for me. She came in the house with a package ...and she said to me...Mom, who is your Fairy Godmother? I didn't have a clue as to what she was talking about so I took the package from her and sure enough it said for return sender Fairy Godmother with a happy face drawn out after it. I really didn't know...but then I opened the package....and I was soooo very muchly surprised for here was one of Carol's magical Elves. My elf doesn't have any wings yet...Carol said he was a "UFO" and suggested that I finish him and make him truly my own Elf. I tell you I was so surprised. Carol has made different scultured tatting items recently, dragons, birds, monkees and all kinds of things...but the one scultured piece or art that she made that I just loved was the Elf. I have been writing to Carol trying to figure out how I could make one of my own for I really wanted one. Carol stated..there was no pattern ...and after seeing the Elf guy...I can see why. I asked her if she took any pictures while making the elf...nope...no pictures...I thought if there were pictures during the making...that maybe I could create one of my own...but there were no pictures....I asked her if she sold any elves on ebay only because I knew she had sold some of her art on there...I think she said no.

I think Carol took pity on me and she made this little guy and sent him to me. My very own Carol Amich aka Battater. He is so cute. In studing him...he has sculptured eyebrows believe it or not...and sculptured ears...and blue eyes using one of those white and colored beads...if you know what kind of beads I am talking about...and he is even in colors that I love...and take a look at his hairdoo....He is going to be fun finishing....and when I get him finished...I will again post a picture of him. He is too cute. I had to call Carol right up...and chit chat with her. Carol also loves Halloween like I do....it was fun talking to her...which we talked for awhile...my hand was falling asleep...LOL. Here is a couple pictures of my Elf Guy.

Then I got another

surprise in the mail. This

Surprise was from Gina

Brummett. It was a

book that Gina had got-

ton for her grandchild-

ren and noticed it was

going in a garage sale.

Gina thought of me

and I guess my love of dragons...and recused the book and mailed it to me. It is a really cool book with pictures of dragons of all kinds. There is even a picture of a dragon that was put together with everything but the kitchen sink...which I bet if I look closer at the dragon picture I will see a sink. In that picture there is a clothes washer with ...believe it or not a cat inside it...but it is a cute book that has dragon poems with each of the dragon pictures. Thank you Gina for thinking of me and sending it my way...it was a real surprise!!! Here is a picture of the cover of the book.

And now I have to close this blog entry with another picture of my grandson....and with at least one of my greatest creations of my own. So here is Peyton Lee ( my grandson) with my youngest son Ryan. Take a look at his hairdoo...he actually has reddish hair which he hates and keeps his hair cut short...lately he has been getting the top of his head dyed...the really...really blonde look.

What a couple of good looking guys huh???

Louise Colgan's Milanese Butterfly...
I just finished this butterfly in Milanese Lace. The pattern is from Louise Colgan's Milanese Book that I have. I changed the way the inner parts of the wings were done. Yup folks...I can't even leave bobbinlace alone but like to do my own thing...so...anyhow...the picture on the left is Louise Colgan's Butterfly...the one on the right is mine. Not sure if I like it or not...what I did...but it is now done and off my pillow...I am thinking of doing her heart pattern next.















Here is one more picture of my butterfly. I know in the picture that the one thread color looks kinda reddish pink...but the thread color is actually a plum purple color with pale lilac and a true blue. Looks different in the pictures...

I thought I would share a couple pictures I took of my other loves in my life...my two grandsons. In the one picture is Peyton Lee....take a look at his sweater outfit. Erin Hollaway made this for Peyton and brought it to me when she came to stay with me just a bit over a week ago....and look at Peyton's smile....he is such a happy baby. In the other picture is his brother Timmy Guy. Timmy loves getting his picture taken...does this mean he is a ham....LOL

During the Hector weekend event....Mark, Erin and I were a tatting but when we got to my house....it was time to get the bobbins and pillows out for bobbinlace. We decided to make a hummingbird in Milanese Lace from a DVD that I had gotten and was finding it hard to find the time to make the bird...though...I love Milanese and the way it looks with all those scrolls, and flowing braids, besides that...I love hummingbirds...enjoy watching them at the feeders every year. But lo...and behold...I made a mistake right in the begining...so I took my bobbins off and decided I would start it over after my company left...and I did and finished it today. Here is a picture of it.

Now I will add more Hector pictures for all of you to look at....

I believe this is Tanya Welsh's display. Tatting friends just having plain fun!!!! :))

I hope you all enjoy looking that hats that people made for the hat contest. Till....keep tatting and keep smiling.....

Do you hear that??
Those are sleighbells,
that means the holidays are here.
I love this time of year because....

I am Mark the moose
I am on the loose spreading Christmas cheer.
I wish you peace and happiness throughout the coming year.
I love to skate and decorate,
with Christmas lights a glow.

I am Mark the moose.
the very merriest moose you will
EVER know!!!!!
Repeat.....

I am now even entertaining Peyton with this stuffed animal...he looks at it and thinks I have lost my very mind......but it is fun!!!

Now for some pictures. The first pictures I will share are the tatting bag that Mark made and was a sample for his hairpin lace class that he taught.





















In the next pictures I will show you the thistle flower that I made from Rita Cochrane's class and the flower from Mark's class. In the one picture I made the flower using King Tut's quilting thread. In the other picture of the flower in off white I used Gutterman's cotton thread. The Gutterman thread is a stiffer thread and though I followed Mark's pattern...it looks different.
















Now for some other pictures that I took at the event.














Ginny Weathers from Auburn,NY and Rita Some of the students I had in my dragon class.
Cochrane from Canada



























Georgia Seitz
And what is Mr. Tatman doing in a tatting
event...bobbinlace....Shame on you Tatman.
LOL!!

Both sides of a tatting FANNY bag that Mark made and wore with suspenders out of a pair of jeans...Too FUNNY MARK!!!

This is it for today. On another day I will share more pictures of some of the hats were made and entered in a hat competition which I didn't enter...no time to work on a hat.

I hope you have enjoyed the pictures that I took and shared with you all. I had such a blast over the weekend...it was like my last horrah....sorry to say.

My how time flies...it has already been a week since my fun began. A week ago today I was a butterfly at this time. I sat and read my grusome book by Patricia Cornwell and then I would put the book down and go and do something...then I sat back down...read a couple more paragraphs and then I was back up again. I was nervous and excited at the same time...now can you be nervous and excited at the same time...well...the butterflies in my stomach thought so.
The excitement was...I knew Mark Myers and Erin Hollaway was coming to stay with me for the weekend. I was also excited for the Hector Tatting event was on the immediate horizon...the nervousness...driving to the airport to get my two guests. I hate driving in Rochester which is a big city. It intimadates me...and I was nervous for I knew I was teaching this year in Hector.
But eventually the time came to get in my daughter's car...which also made me nervous for I borrowed her car for the weekend since my son had responsiblities and needed my car. Anyhow...off to the airport I went early...I wanted to make sure I had plenty of time incase I missed an exit or something...plus I just couldn't sit here and figet anymore.
Got to the airport fine...and tried to read that same grusome book. Patricia Cornwell books remind me alot of CSI and I really like that show...anyhow...I couldn't really concentrate I was so excited. The first guest that was suppose to fly in was Mark...but his flight came in and there was NO Mark....hmmm...He has done it to me again...same thing happened to me last time he came....not on the flight he was suppose to be on. But in all fairness...it wasn't Mark's fault....It is O'Hara Airport's fault and the weather in the windy city. Anyhow....I didn't have time to keep wondering where Mark was for I had to get to the otherside of the airport to get my other guest which was Erin...God LOVE her soul...for she was where she was suppose to be. I think my first words to Erin was....I don't know where Mark is...he didn't get off his flight....and anxiety was by now already set in...Where is the man....
Anyhow...I had my husband cell phone with me....did I think to turn the phone on...no...so here I was...with a phone that I had no clue how to really use since it is my husband's phone I never use it...except for maybe three times the whole time he has had the phone. Erin helped me in figuring out how to get the voice messages since there were two on the phone...but guess what...I didn't have the password to retrieve the messages....so...Erin and I went out to my car to take care of her luggage and I called Kim. Come to find out because of the bad weather in Chicago...the planes were delayed and Mark would be coming in on a later plane. Mark was suppose to be at the airport just after 4pm...but when I asked what flight he was to be on from the United desk I was informed he would be coming in after 7pm. So Erin and I had some time to kill. We sat and had coffee. It was so great to see Erin. I love that girl. She is so funny!!
Anyhow....Mark did come in...I think his first words were something like..."It wasn't my fault".
So finally we got in the car and drove to my house and the party began. My husband I shipped off to Canada with my son to the gambling cacino. So the house was in party mode. I had a good time. Mark was winding bobbins to start the hummingbird Milanese lace and Erin was trying to figure out a braid in her heart Milanese. I was also winding bobbins...which I should have had already wound....could have done that instead of figeting in the morning.
We were up late into the night...who needs sleep when you are having fun I ask you.
But it was a party all weekend until Sunday....my husband surprised me by coming home early...and I was coming down with a wicked cold that I caught from my son Ryan...I am still sick with that cold and makes me feel like doing nothing.
It was great to see the other tatters in Hector. I taught my class which I know was alot of information for people to take in...and I didn't have any real good diagrams...hey....we all can't be Mark.....The Rock Star...which is a name that Erin and I started calling him. LOL!
There was plenty of food...and the stuff to buy....I was a pretty good girl and didn't go overboard with the buying. I really don't need alot of stuff.
But one thing I have to tell you about was the "Mark the Moose" which is a stuffed moose on ice skates that sings...I am Mark the Moose I have come to bring Christmas cheer...I don't know all the words right now. My daughter Michelle gave it to me for Christmas one year....but instead of just sharing the fun stuff toy...I decided to share it with the other tatters in Hector...so he was smuggled out of the house and went to Hector with us on Sunday....He was played for the benefit of the other tatters....I just thought he had to be shared.
I also made an announcement on Sunday. The spring issue of the IOLI Bullentin which is a lace bullentin futured my Celtic Fan on the cover. I just happened to have a cover copy that Debra Jenny was so nice to send to me since I probably wouldn't have the bullentin in the mail in time for the event. Funny but my Bullentin was in my mailbox on Monday. So I am happy that I have now put tatting twice on the Lace Bulletin. The first tatting that I put on the cover of the Bulletin was Kelly my Celtic Dragon.
I am now going to end this post and start another one to share some pictures with you all.

This probably going to be the last post that I will do until after the Hector event is over. Yesterday since I had my sewing machine out sewing ....I thought I would finish Peyton's birth announcement. So here is a picture of it. It is now in a frame. I took the picture without the frame so the glass would reflex and distort the picture. The letters for his name are tatted and the pattern for those is out of a Japanese tatting book that I have. The particulars were cross stitched and the stork tatted...Jane's Pattern and the baby buggy pattern came from an old Anna magazine that I have.
I am going to be really busy for the next few days...and won't have much time to be on the computer.
Hope to see some of you at Hector, NY this coming weekend.

I know it has been awhile since I have posted...but....now I have a few things to share with you all. First of all on etatters list there has been some discussion with Peter Cua of Philippines. He has been experimenting making shuttles out of horn. He also experimented doing some etching on the horn shuttles. Today FedEx stopped and delivered a package from Peter to me. These are the dragon and Phoenixes etched shuttles that he sent to me.

Aren't these shuttle beautiful. They are all hand etched. If you click on the picture you will see a closer picture to see the detail of the artwork. I have had a busy day so I haven't had a chance to try them out yet...but I will believe me. The etching looks like silver on the black. In places you can see where the etching is brown...that is the horn I believe. When you hold these up to the list you can see through the horn. They are really beautiful. And the etching is on both sides of the shuttles.

I will be taking these shuttles with me to Hector this coming weekend, so people can see how beautiful they are with their own eyes....They are so pretty....and I just happen to love dragons as you all know....which leads me to....

What will I be teaching in Hector this coming weekend. I will be teaching a 3D dragon that I have designed. Here is a couple pictures of him.

His name is "My Little Pony Dragon. I also made him in purple and green...that was my first experiment with designing him. I believe there is a picture of him already on my blog somewhere.

This coming weekend is not only the Hector event but I will be having house guest too. How exciting huh???!!! Mark Myers and Erin Halloway will be staying with me. We plan to tat during the day and burn the midnight oil doing bobbinlace in the evening. They will both be flying in on Friday...so I have been busy getting things ready for my guest. I am so excited....Alot to be thankful isn't it.....

While I was waiting for FedEx to arrive this morning ( for I had been tracking the package) I was painting a lace bobbin...enjoying quiet time...no Peyton today. And I really missed his smiles today....he is so cute...anyhow...the bobbin....I painted a Flower Fairy on my bobbin. Here are the pictures of the bobbin....

Again if you click on the pictures you will see a larger picture of the bobbin.

And one more picture before I sign off again for awhile...probably be back after the Hector event this coming weekend.....My grandson Timmy Guy who just turned nine and Peyton Lee my other grandson. Chrystal had a professional photographer take pictures of the boys. I have seen the pictures which were just beautiful....so now I am thinking...how come I don't have my pictures from her yet....

Anyhow...I hope you all enjoy your week...and tat yourselves silly...me.....I will be tatting with my new exquiste shuttles and enjoying my guests muchly...and having a blast at Hector.....sigh....it doesn't get any better than this folks...it truly doesn't......