Two Snowflakes

Although I haven't posted in a while, I have been tatting. Tonight I thought I'd better show up here a little. Two snowflakes ... until I get the rest properly photographed. (As you can see, these taken by my mobile aren't best represented.) The patterns are from 24 Snowflakes in Tatting by Lene Bjorn.

The Second Day of  December

The Third Day of December

A tiny update on the Tat-along doily: Arrgh, I found a mistake in the joining (can you see it in the picture?) and have to un-tat a fair bit. Have lost the momentum on that one but will definitely come back to it.

In Winter Wonderland and Snowflakes

In the last week of November, I was off to Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. This was my second time to Japan after Tokyo many years back, and I anticipated a totally different experience. I was not disappointed. In fact this is the first time I saw snow!

Well, I'll tell you more about my Hokkaido trip in another post... (haha, such a teaser).

I really want to show you the snowflakes I tatted. Besides Julie's snowflake which was in the previous post, I tatted some snowflakes designed by Decoromana and le Flocon Frivole by Frivole. They were all easy to tat up and I was having a ball of a time. I used a variety of threads ranging from #20 to #100.

I also made use of these snowflakes in the various items I made.

Fabric ATCs

Speaking of ATCs, this month at the local ATC meet, our organiser Moses shared a technique in making ATCs. Watercolours were used to paint the little squares in creating a pretty visual.

Two samples he showed us...

Look at the creative pieces the participants made!

And this is my piece.

Julie's Snowflakes

I'd been experiencing a period of craft drought. It's one of those times when the brain doesn't have any inspiration but the dry spell is slowly dissipating. In fact, I've been lurking among the blogs that I often visited but did not comment much as well...

Yes, I'd want to get back to tatting. The gold fish in the previous post was a 'start'. I'm looking to tat some snowflakes so I flipped through my super thick folder where I have my collection of patterns, but mostly shelved away. I found this!

It's Julie Patterson's pattern. I love the compactness of this snowflake, and I tatted two in one go. They are tatted in a #20 thread (but the label's lost).
Hope you like these.

NOTE:
The links to this pattern have been fixed by Georgia, thanks to IsDihara who wrote to inform her. Great work, IsDihara! The patterns are here and here.

Snowflakes

Have been looking up snowflake patterns to tat...

Here's one that I like. The pattern can be found in Tatting With Ann Orr, motif 19 on pages 18-19. I tatted this motif in two colours.





More snowflakes on the way...

XOXO
Val