Motif # 24, hankies and wips.

We went to my mom's memorial yesterday, and it was nice, I wasn't planning 

on saying anything, just listening to the stories from her friends, 

but I did end up telling stories about her anyhow, it felt good to 

laugh with some of her friends about things she did and liked :)

It wasn't all religious and preachy, that isn't something

my mom would have wanted, she wasn't a real patient person 

when it came to sermons and lectures etc, lol, so this 

setting was much much more suited to her, just a bunch of 

friends having superb memories :) I think she would have been 

really pleased .

In my tatting land, I have been doing a little here and there, and when I saw

that Journey had done the first half of 

Jon Yussoff's fold over bookmark ,in 2 

diff colors, I was in love with it all over again!

I have done this  half of the bookmark before and loved it but I always did 

it in just one color, or in one variegated color, but I really

like the way Journey did it here and I just had to do it for myself!

Without realizing it until after I had done it, I tatted in blues the same as

Journey had done it, and so I had to do another one,

(blue must just be on a lot of my shuttles lol,) so here are 

my two versions of the bookmark without the fold over, for my 

motif # 24.

all are Lizbeth size 20, the blues are  #'s 651 and 656, the 

green I am not sure of the green color but the coral color is 

# 628

 

Hubbie took me to one of the local antique stores  looking for shuttles, they 

sometimes get them in but no luck this time, however I did find 5 really 

pretty  hankies I just had to get!  

Though fairly old, they are in excellent condition.  They are 

really thin, and I just love the colors!  I will hand wash them 

and put them away for future projects, I am excited about putting

really pretty edges on these... 

 

  

I just love these!

As far as WIP's go, I have 2 of them, one is this little thing I thought would 

be just fun.  I found these heavy cardboard letters 

at the craft store, and some beautiful paper, while picking out more

for blinging shuttles of course, and I decided to bling 

a giant B for Bree, silly I know, more something you would do 

for a girls room than a shelf for an adult, but 

it is crafty and cute, and I will put it on a shelf in the living room

 behind the box where all my shuttles are.

In the large blank space on the spine of the B and on the bottom

of the curve, I am going to put some tatting, I just haevn't figured

out what exactly I am putting there, I want the beautiful paper to show

but I also want to  put some really pretty tatting on it, so I will 

have to play around with it :)

And my last WIP is a set of pillow cases with hand embroidery 

that I will be putting a nice tatted edge on.  I am going to use 

a pearl cotton, in ecru, I have had the cotton for several 

years already, but not used it for anything, 

and I think it will be a beautiful edge.

 I am going with a vintage look for the cases, and have 

a set of 3 already planned, just have to finish this first set, lol.

Here is the progress on the embroidery, but I left it jumbled so it will be

a nice surprise when it is all completed. 

As, always, Happy Tatting :)  Bree.