February tends to fly, but holy smokes! Has it really been a whole month since my last post?
Freshly completed January TIAS projects usually energize my tatting creativity. This year I set aside Jane Eborall's adorable TIAS at Day 10 with the intent to finish Gingerbread Boy. (...before the creative wave washed in.)
Poor, neglected cookie laddie still languishes in my tatting corner. What's the hold up? Nothing really, just me being obsessive about not messing him up. Can I rationalize that it would be a whole lot easier if I had a diagram to follow?
Yes! I even tried to draw a digital diagram to get going again. *grumbles.loudly* Computer wouldn't cooperate. More on that later.
So I switched to designing with my shuttles instead. This is what I created.
Imagine black beads in the center of the white rings for eyes. Also imagine a triangle-shaped bead for the beak. Beads are intended to be sewn on later but could be tatted in as you go.
AUGH! If only my middle-aged computer could handle "the strain" of diagramming. It is not up to the task. (Hard drive errors linked to memory swap issues....AUGH!) And I haven't yet been brave enough to try diagramming patterns on the iPad.
For Tatting Tea Tuesday, I sip Chocolate Strawberry herbal tea while I finish up TIAS Day 11.
I am also contemplating a graft of a front-facing penguin head onto a penguin body designed by Jane Eborall. If it works it will be disarmingly cute. If not, the unfortunate fellow could be a freak the likes of a Frankenstein monster. (That wasn't melodramatic at all...)
More photos to come after two prams/baby carriages are done and given a quick steam press.
Wishing you all blissful me time to create something beautiful (and neck bolt free). See you next Tuesday for more communi-tea!
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| IsDihara's TIAS 2013 Day 10 progress, red background |
Freshly completed January TIAS projects usually energize my tatting creativity. This year I set aside Jane Eborall's adorable TIAS at Day 10 with the intent to finish Gingerbread Boy. (...before the creative wave washed in.)
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| Gingerbread Boy still unfinished... |
Poor, neglected cookie laddie still languishes in my tatting corner. What's the hold up? Nothing really, just me being obsessive about not messing him up. Can I rationalize that it would be a whole lot easier if I had a diagram to follow?
Yes! I even tried to draw a digital diagram to get going again. *grumbles.loudly* Computer wouldn't cooperate. More on that later.
So I switched to designing with my shuttles instead. This is what I created.
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| Front-facing penguin head © 2013 Karen Beary Parent All Rights Reserved |
Imagine black beads in the center of the white rings for eyes. Also imagine a triangle-shaped bead for the beak. Beads are intended to be sewn on later but could be tatted in as you go.
AUGH! If only my middle-aged computer could handle "the strain" of diagramming. It is not up to the task. (Hard drive errors linked to memory swap issues....AUGH!) And I haven't yet been brave enough to try diagramming patterns on the iPad.
For Tatting Tea Tuesday, I sip Chocolate Strawberry herbal tea while I finish up TIAS Day 11.
I am also contemplating a graft of a front-facing penguin head onto a penguin body designed by Jane Eborall. If it works it will be disarmingly cute. If not, the unfortunate fellow could be a freak the likes of a Frankenstein monster. (That wasn't melodramatic at all...)
More photos to come after two prams/baby carriages are done and given a quick steam press.
Wishing you all blissful me time to create something beautiful (and neck bolt free). See you next Tuesday for more communi-tea!