Summer tatting with Lace Loving Librarian

Diane sewing motif one of her students made.

Had a great time with Diane, Marilee and her 8 students. 

Diane's tree house her hubby built. Add running water and I'd move right in!

Some of the shuttles I have gotten the last three times pop a bobbin sales. Yes I love my shuttles. I have plans for some of these. :)

Back in the saddle again!

Collection of bags woven by Diane Lace Loving Librarian  and a couple of my shuttles from Jane Eborall.

We are here at Hinsdale for Tollway Tatters Carrie has joined Marilee, Diane, Carol and me . Poor Barb couldn't come. There has been beads, shuttles, tatted cards, hdt, and bead holders to share. So far we are having a fun time. Promise not to be gone so long next time.

Warning you to can get hacked!

So I was at the dentist and my phone started going crazy. I had missed call from my daughter who said she got a weird email from me that said I was in the Philippines and in trouble. Well since I was at tollway tatters the day before and she knew she wasn't in Philippines there was something wrong. Well yeah, my email was hacked.
I received and email several weeks ago saying I needed to verify my Yahoo account, by the way if you get such and email delete it. If you follow it you too will get hacked.
First never been to Philippines, second my family are all safe and sound, third I have yet to be mugged and I have been out of the country in my life time. So let me share what happened. All my emails where deleted, gone! All my contacts also are gone. I had emails from my mom and Gina both who have passed, that are gone forever. Fortunately I don't email passwords. And all my important financial accounts seem to be ok.
It is a sad commentary on our society to have all this mischief afoot. Lets not just think of the hour on the phone with my Internet provider to change and fix problem, but that all my personal emails had been compromised.
So if you got a one of those emails from me, I'm sorry I didn't send it. The problem is fixed and hopefully you won't get those kind of emails from me.
Word of warning if it doesn't feel right, don't open it!
Parting shot, some tatting. :)

I did this several years ago and it is on my header. Some day hope to do it again. It is Jon Yusoff's pattern . But tatting heals all wounds!

New Year and Tollway Tatters

Well another year is here and the Tollway Tatters had our first meeting of the year unfortunately Carol and Barb where not able to join us. But  we did have Alison, Ava and brother join us! So glad holidays are over as it was a busy time. The snowflake is Marilee's new pattern "Marian", and as usual I didn't get far. I got to gift home grown and made hand cream and lip balm to all there. It is with bees wax from our bees! As you can see a great time was had by all. Sorry this is on run on paragraph but blogger and I are not Friends today. Hope this year brings joy, happiness abd more time to tat. Nedd to check Yarnplayer's blog as she worked on a new design. Great to watch a Master at work!

Tollway Tatters!

Today we got together for Tollway Tatters! And we had Diane, Denise, Carol, Alison, Ava, Marilee, Barb and me!
Marilee gave each of us a hand woven dish cloth, a couple of candy bars and a ball of size 20 Lizbeth thread.
Carol had these real cute bags with the new Aerlit shuttle. Diane shared thread and a selection of doodads and beads. She also gave us two challenge doodads to do. I passed out Aerlit shuttles and size 3 Lizbeth thread. It was a very nice gift recieving day.

Marilee working a new design.

My own design tatted in size 3 Lizbeth,  next to a shuttle to get idea of size about 2- 2 1/2 ".
It is 5 rings with 5 p separated by 2 ds. and 5 chains with 6 p separated by 2 ds. Easy peeze.
I think the thread is Vineyard. Looks a lot like Marilee's colorway.
Well we missed God's Kid, Sue and Cheryl. Cheryl's father was in Hospice and not doing well. Our prayers are with her.
Till later, ta ta.

On with life!

To say I have been blessed is an understatement. First I met some of the greatest minds and talent at Tat Days. I had the opportunity to learn from them and I had never been anywhere where there were so many tatters in one room!!!
Next I recieved some of the nicest gifts from friends, old and new. Tatters are truely the most generous people out there. So I did finish one of my projects.

This is Jane Eborall's lion from her Zoo collection. I struggled with the flamingo in class and had his tail coming out of his stomach! But when I got home and it was quieter I was able to concentrate to do both. That just means Jane's class was a hoot and there was so much going on I guess I didn't pay attention to where I was joining. All the patterns are available on the cd that Palmetto Tatters has on their web site.http://www.palmettotatters.org .

Classes I took.

 

They where very organized there and we all got folders that had our schedule, patterns and a cool bag filled with goodies.

My flamingo still needing all the threads sewn in. For those who notice yes he is in Ecru. He is going on our guild Christmas tree. And no tail coming out of his stomach!

These lovely ladies are Cheryl (in the middle) and Sue (God's kid) who joined us from Michigan for our Tollway Tatters. It was super to meet them and I love their tie dyed shirts!

The other end of the table with Marilee doing her thing and showing Cheryl and Sue a technique, Diane working on her doodles, and grand daughter Ava next to her.
If you live in Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, Indiana or Michigan come join us! Email me or Diane privately and we will give you details when and where we meet! Of course anyone from everywhere can come and join in.

Ava holding Alison's first snowflake!

Donna who made Tat Days great and one of the many to make them happen!

This is the last time Chris Horton shuttles will be available because his laser broke. Here are the shuttles from Tat Days. They were beautiful.
Well thanks to all who have stopped by. And if you get a chance wish Jane Eborall a happy birthday today!
Ta Ta for now.