Tatted blue phone pouch progress

Remember I tatted a little square motif, then started to make more and join them as I go?

I finally made 14 squares, and I hope that, folded in two, it will cover an iphone 6. Otherwise I will have to make an extra edging.

I still need to find a way to close the sides, with a row of rings, or a sort of rope ?

Now I wish I simply joind the squares before, just like I did for my first phone pouch ! Oh well, can't think of everything all the time...

petit beurre tatted motifs

At the beginning,  I wanted to make the amulet bag in my japanese tatting book. But one square is 4cm by 4 cm, not big enough for a bag or even a pouch ! So I decided to make several. I don't know how big it will end up.

I am making it in two colours because I started loading one shuttle with blue cotton size 20, but all the other shuttles were full, so I took a size 20 white thread.

I think the effect is nice, even if the squares make me think of"petit beurre" biscuits !

Tatted motifs now in a square

Last time I showed you 2 of those motifs joined together, and now here are 2 more, and I have a square ! I don't know how many I will make like that....

I like how the cormer rings linked in the middle create yet another motif...

This little fairy goes to the market....

and brings her tatted bag with her ! I made this cute little tatted bag and gave it to my mom for Mother's day on Sunday. She has a collection of miniatures, and the bag fitted right in. I sew a little flower I had made some time ago.

I wonder who would recognise the doll. When I was a little girl, they got a collection of "Flower fairies", dainty dolls with cute dresses and wings, about half the size of a Barbie. I got my first one in York, UK, in this tiny toy shop that looked like a fairytale. Then I sold them in Belgium and I got a few more.

Of course I kept them as decoration, along with my Strawberry Shortcake dolls....

Anyway, cute bag, will make some more I guess ;)

Space dyed classic doily progress

Here are pictures of my progress on the doily from the book New Tatting I really enjoy this, it's so lovely But after round 5, you can see that it's a bit ruffled Now I need to make something like 16 rosettes joined around the doily.

Tatted hex doily

I was playing with flower motifs, joining as I went, and voilà,  an hexagonal oily !

It's very close to the hydrangea doily in the book "New tatting", bit it's just chance.

New tatting is a book I bought yesterday on google play. I usually prefer to get the paper version of craft books, even if I have many patterns on my tablet. But I didn't want to wait, plus I always have my tablet or my phone close at hand, so it's like carrying the book wherever I go.

More on that tomorrow, with the current project (a pattern from the book, of course !)

Circle of crowns

This morning I made this little snowflake motif, "Circle of crowns", that is in Jon Yusoff snow flake book.

See all her lovely stuff on her blog, Tat-a-Renda. This was a bit technical for me, with lock joins and chains in weird directions, but I enjoyed the fact that it was done in one round !

Now something different...

Looks like you loved my question... I will tell about my own choices as I go... I already know that I will take my 4 floss boxes, wips.... charts... my daylight lamp... and other things as well I suppose.

Ginny, my grandma has a sewing machine already, so I will leave mine behind for the moment.

Kucki, I am both dreading and looking forward to my life change... I will go to the French speaking part of Belgium, of course...

And in the meatime, what does a crafter do when she has too much time on her hands? New craft !!!! It's bee years since I used my bobbin lacemaking stuff... So I started with a little "bookmark". I guess it is now, as I sewed the lace onto a dark blue felt piece...

-------------------

Il semblerait que ma question soit un succes... Si on me pose la question maintenant, je sais que je prendrai mes 4 boites de fils, des encours, des grilles, ma lampe lumiere du jour, mais d'autres trucs me viendront en tete je suppose. Pas besoin de machine a coudre, car ma grand mere en a deja une.

Evidemment, en ce moment je suis a la fois excitee et craintive des changements qui arrivent bientot, mais pour l'instant... j'ai surtout du temps ! Et que fait une bricoleuse comme moi dans ce cas? De nouvelles choses !!!

Ca faisait des annees que je n'avais pas touche a mon materiel de dentelles au fuseau, bien qu'il m'aie suivi pendant 3 demenagements !!!

Donc j'ai commence aujourd'hui avec un petit marque-page de base. Enfin, c'est devenu un marque-page vu que je l'ai cousu sur de la feutrine bleu fonce...

Je dois avouer que pour l'instant je suis un peu perdue, et je ne comprends en fait que la methode tres vieille de DMC, avec explications pas a pas, et le schema a mettre direct sur le tambour. Par contre, les autrres bouquins que j'ai, comme les methodes de base de Chanleye.. on ne voit pas ou planter les aiguilles ? Surtout quand on fait quelque chose en rond, comment que ca se mange ce truc-la?

Enfin, on verra bien...