NeedleDreams' posts with tag: karey_solomon
|  | Some of my Tatting works. Not all are my original designs, Please, respect the Copyright. If you want information about any of the projects please leave a comment and I'll reply back. Thanks! |
| | Some of the photos taken during Palmetto Tatting Day 2006 |
 | Juan | Oct 16, '07 12:59 AM
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Here is Juan. He's from Bolivia and is wearing jeans like Sean, but this time they're burgundy. The shirt is also made in block. I had a difficult time with his shirt. Had to start it 3 times!!! But that happens when I don't read the instructions and guide myself only from the photo. But even with the photo I made an extra repetition at the beginning, resulting an extra section. He was looking fat! LOL But after the 3rd try I got it. The hair is made of brown thread and was crocheted with slip stitch to the picots. Next will be Keiko, the Japanese girl. 
| Sean | Oct 16, '07 12:38 AM
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Sean is an Ireland boy. He's the 1st one on the Circle of Children. The jeans are made using "Block Tatting" and the shirt is a square with Clovers. Hey! You can't be Irish and don't have Clovers or green on you! LOL The shirt is a pale seafoam green and the jeans are baby powder blue. He also has pretty green eyes and orange hair. You'll notice that he doesn't have arms because that's the last thing to make. The arms will be joined together closing the circle. Next will be Juan, the Bolivian boy. 
| Shoes | Oct 10, '07 12:40 AM
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I finished the shoes' round. Now the fun will begin! The 1st child is Sean from Ireland. I'll start it now and take a pic tomorrow.
I finished the Oceans and the Earth in the Circle of Children. The center of the oceans is a cluny leaf with 6 rings attached to it. The cluny looks perfect! It was a little akward to join the rings to the side. The blue I used looks dark in the photo 'cause I used the web cam, but it's really a nice royal blue. The green is a little too "minty" to be grass but that was the darkest green I had.  Duh! Now I remember that I have embroidery floss! I can use 3 strands to make the grass. Oh well, next time. Tomorrow I'll make the shoes round and may be one of the children. I'll use a brown thread for the shoes and with the light I have in the room is not enough to work, plus I'm having migraines today. Yuck!  Coffee diminish the pain and tatting soothes me. SO I think I'll tat some flowers with light colors. Nothing too complicated.
This is what I'll do now. My mom at last scanned the booklet for me! This is one of my favorite booklets from Karey Solomon. I made this before in size #80 and was so cute! But I lost it. Now I'll do it again using the perle #8 I got here. I think I have all the skin colors... That's the most difficult part, really! But I have the rest of the colors. Will show the progress... It will be slow 'cause I have to tat other things in between. The Spanish online tatting class is going full blast! So now I have to be translating the lessons and posting them in the Spanish web site of Frivolite and also have to look for sample patterns and post them also in Spanish for them. At least the Tat-Along and Frivoliteando Projects are once per month and I got that one done today! Geesh! I'm tire already! 
| This is a snowflake from Karey Solomon. I made it using a thread that I received from Tanya Walsh in the Tin Exchange. I still have to take a photo of everything that came inside the tin. A lot of goodies came in. The thread is from Altin Basak, my favorite thread company. It's called 6 Kilat or something like that. I'm feeling so lazy that I don't even want to check for the name now. But after I come from the doctor appointment tomorrow I'll take the pic anf write in detail everything. The thread is polyester but has a very nice shine. Feels and work like rayon. I like it! but I noticed that I lost almost all the twist while working the chains. I don't know if the thread is like that or that the thread lost a little of the twist when I was untangling it. More than half of the ball was unwind from the ball so I spent like 2-3 hours just untangling everything. | | | | Tags: tatting, snowflakes | Edit Tags
I registered for this year Palmetto's Tat-Day. This is an event that 4every year the Palmetto Tatters Guild of SC celebrate. It's 2 days of classes and friendship among tatters from all over. I went as a teacher the 1st year and then in 2004 as a student. This year I'll go as student again. I already signed for my classes: Friday:
Celtic Hat by Martha Ess Saturday:
Mini Amulet Bad by Karey Solomon
Hat Pin Cushion by Brenda Rewhorn
Interlocking Rings by Karen Bovard All the teachers are great! But I'm so fond of Karen Solomon, she's a really good friend! Also last night registered 13 works for the Competition and Exhibition of Tatting. In 2004 I won 2 Blue ribbons and 2 Red Ribbons of 4 works I presented. Let see how many ribbons I'll get this time.  If you want more information about the Tat-Day or Palmetto Tatters Guild go to their web site: Palmettotatters.org
This is an old design that Karey Solomon published in her Tatting Times. She re-worked it so the "Hens and Chicks" had chains instead of the traditional bare thread between the rings. I specially like this because I tend to make a mess when leaving bare threads between rings, ending up with unequall space between the rings. I used the Star thread that Georgia sent me a few weeks ago. I still have some more left but it took almost half of the ball. I had to cut some mistakes several times...  The navy blue thread is DMC Petra #8. It's slighty bigger than the Star which is a #30 but it worked fine with the chains. I love to mix sizes and colors! I'm not sure if I'll depart of this doily. May be I'll keep it.
I finished this doily like an hour ago, while watching The Matrix and Holes. I can't stand doing nothing while watching tv or something like that. So I tat and tat. This small doily measures like 6 inches and I used Star #30 in White. But it's a vintage thread so it looks cream (more of an off-white). Anyway it's a good thread to work with. The result is a crisp doily that will not need any stiffner. I need to iron it and will go to the living room table, which I call the "Honor Table". Mom likes to exhibit anything that is really pretty in that table, so every new doily goes there! The pattern is from Karey Solomon's "Tatting Time", Vol. 14 Issue 2. "Tatting Times" is a newsletter published 4 times per year and it's packed with really nice patterns. Some are original from Karey, other are adaptations of antique patterns. It's a very good newsletter! I already started another small doily also from "Tatting Times". This time using the same cream but combined with cotton perle #8 in Navy Blue. 
Here is the finished snowflake. I finished it while I was in church with mom and sis. Well, not during the service, but waiting for mom and sis to finish talking and drive to eat out. There was a Moderator from the General Assambly (Presbyterian) visiting PR and he was staying with Letty and the husband. He's (my BIL) a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Guaynabo, PR. So after the service we went to Cayey to a famous area known better as "La Ruta del Lechon" (The Pork's Route) to take the visitor to eat a Puerto Rican dinner. There are dozens of little restaurant where the specialty is the roasted pork, a traditional plate here in PR. It's kinda similar to the Hawaiian Lau. But the one here is made in a pole over the open flame and roasted until it's cooked inside and the skin is crispy. I didn't eat a lot of meat, I stoped eating pork a couple of years ago. But anyway I eat the "Yellow" rice with the Pigeon Peas; green boiled bananas, yucca, roasted sweet potatoes, lilac "yautia" and sweet yellow platain. To drink a couple of glasses of "Acerola" juice. Oh my! This is a typical Sunday meal. There was a live band playing some Merengue and Salsa and a few people were dancing. I forgot my camera today. So I couldn't take a picture. But if my sister transfer the one she took I'll post it here. Anyway.... (Geesh I always deviate from the theme) The snowflake was a pretty cool pattern to do. And I'm in love with this thread. The thread I used definitively is the "Silco" that is a cotton but works like silk. The varigated color is pretty too. I think I'll be ordering some more beofre I return to Egypt. This thread is a little expensive but the resutl is great! I greatly recommend this thread for any of us that love to wrok with finer threads. The size is similar to a DMC #80 or a cordonette #100. I still have some leftover so I'll be making something else. Probably will be sufficient for a big butterfly if I combine it with other thread. I got some Hand Quilting Gutterman in black that would work very well with this color. Let see what I invent later.
This dress was made by my mom. It's for a baby girl, daughter of a student where my mom works. My mom loves babies and she likes to make things for the babies. So when she made this one she asked me if I could make something small to embellish the dress. So I decided to make a small tatted heart. The pattern is from Karey Solomon's book: Hearts belong to Tatting. It's a very simple and quick pattern. I used DMC cotton perle #5 in a bright red. Mom sew it to the dress with the ends I left on the heart. That way you can't notice the sewing of the heart to the dress, plus it's super secure and won't fall fro a long, long time. I know that Yorayus and her mom will love the dress.
I order this small shuttle from Tat's All in Canada. It's a shuttle made of Corian and measures about 1.5". It's very light and I have to tat slowly until I get the rythm of it. I love it. It's small for my hands but don't let the size trick you. It can hold a lot of thread and the thread doesn't unravel like with other shuttles. I just love it!!! Thanks Gale! What I'm tatting is a snowflake from Karey Solomon book Tatting for the Tree. The thread is a sample that Gale included on the shuttle. I'm not sure if it's the "Mirage" (a rayon thread) or the "Silco" (a cotton thread). But I can assure you that it tats beautiful! One thing, if you're using thin threads like this try not to make mistakes that later you'll have to undo. It's a headache doing it without frying the thread. As soon as I finish the snowflake I'll scan it.
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