Wheel of Sun - yellow tatted pendant

I can’t believe is June already! Time runs too quickly recently…

I have a stall at Summer Fair (East Craigs Primary School, Edinburgh) this Saturday, so I am very busy with tatting.

Today I want to show my Yellow Sun Pendant and I’ll come back after weekend with my newest bracelet. You are going to like it, I hope.

Nie moge uwierzyc, ze juz jest czerwiec. Czas ostatnio leci bardzo szybko...

Mam stoisko z moją bizuterią w tą sobotą (East Craigs Primary School, Edinburgh), zapraszam wszystkich, którzy są w stanie dotrzeć.

Chcialabym pokazac dzis żółty wisior. Wrocę po weekendzie z zupełnie nowa bransoletką. Mam nadzieje, ze sie Wam spodoba.

*** 30.10.2014 UPDATE
you can by the pattern in my Etsy Shop! 
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TattingPattern 

Wheel of Faith -multicolored rainbow tatted pendant

Today I would like to show you a rainbow pendant. I redesign my original project, Vampire’s Wheel of Fate and make this one with six points.

This is amazing for me how colours of this thread match each other and make a such fantastic symmetric pattern. This is a thread I bought in Poland but unfortunately I don’t know the name of it.

Dzisiaj chciałabym pokazać Wam tęczową zawieszkę. Przerobiłam mój oryginalny projekt, Wampiryczne Kolo  i zrobiłam takie z 6 ramionami.

Niesamowite dla mnie jest to jak kolory pasują do siebie i tworzą fantastyczny symetryczny wzór. Nitkę tą kupiłam w Polsce i niestety nie wiem jak się nazywa.

Pendant is featured in this treasury

'MINIATURE SHEEP AND KANGAROOS.......:)' by RenataandJonathan

Miriam Haskell Pearls i... DiGi $52.00	Kangaroos - 3 Antique O... PegandAwl $61.00	Miniature Porcelain She... ALDDesigns $10.00	In my secret garden 8x1... magnesina $27.00
Iris Dress LittleHouses $90.00	Wheel of Faith -multico... Decoromana $12.00	Custom item for Sofia -... AurumJewelry $	Buy1 Get1 -Apocatastasi... Raceytay $15.00
Green Wall DIY kit TWO GreenWallNL $64.95	5.5 mm wide hand carved... huiyitan $60.00	Craft, Vendor or Garden... pamwares $24.00	The ORIGINAL Tres Chic ... HerMajestysPug $10.50
The Bag with Woman (Hen... ifONA $35.00	Turquoise Silver Ear Da... Artesserae $75.00	Pop-up patchwork dollho... sarabandepress $30.00	early spring currant bu... bialakura $12.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Tatted light turquoise square pendant

Few days ago I received a big parcel full of new threads. They are absolutely gorgeous . At this moment I am absolutely crazy about every shade of turquoise. Yesterday I tatted this square motif (pattern from the Polish magazine Wena ) and added an antique looking chain. And the way I created this unusual pendant. Once again- thank you very much for your lovely comments -they really matter to me.

 

Parę dni temu dostałam wielką paczkę pełną nowych nici. Są przepiękne! Obecnie mam totalna fazę na wszelkie odcienie turkusu, co ma swoje odzwierciedlenie w moich frywolitkach. Wczoraj wyfrywolilam ten kwadratowy motyw (wzór z czasopisma Wena) i dodałam łańcuszek w kolorze starego złota. I tym właśnie sposobem powstał nietuzinkowy naszyjnik. Jeszcze raz bardzo dziękuję Wam za komentarze -one naprawdę dużo dla mnie znaczą.

Classic black pendant / Klasyczny czarny medalion

Welcome :) From today I'll be writing in both English and Polish. Blogging in English is for me a way of practising the English language. A year ago, when I began this blog, I did it mainly for myself, to have a place where I can show my crafts .The number of persons who follow this blog has grown bigger than my expectations, I extremely pleased you like visit this place. However -it is known -not all know English and google translator, although with often actually is useful, it can very silly translate texts. Many people write blogs in several languages, I start to do this today.

Going back to tatting – I'd like to show you a classic black filigree pendant. I've done it a few days ago, design by Jan Stawasz (from polish monthly magazine, "Moje robótki"). I like this one, I can see a great potential in it. I used black Liezbeth, size 20.

 

Witam serdecznie :)

Od dziś postaram się pisać zarówno w języku angielskim jak i polskim. Prowadzenie bloga w języku angielskim jest dla mnie taka mini –szkółką języka angielskiego. Rok temu, kiedy zaczynałam przygodę z blogiem, robiłam to właściwie dla siebie, by mieć gdzie umieścić moje prace i moc czasem komuś pokazać , czym się właściwie zajmuję. Ilość osób, które obserwują tego bloga przerosła moje oczekiwania, jest mi niezmiernie milo, ze podoba się Wam u mnie. Wiadomo jednak, ze nie wszyscy znają angielski, a google translator, mimo ze często faktycznie jest użyteczny, potrafi bardzo głupiutko przetłumaczyć teksty. Wiele osób pisze blogi w kilku językach, dołączam dziś do tego grona.

Wracając do frywolitek – chciałabym pokazać Wam klasyczny czarny koronkowy medalion. Zrobiłam go parę dni temu, wg wzoru Jana Stawasza (miesięcznik „Moje robótki”). Bardzo mi się ten wzór podoba, widzę w nim duży potencjał. Użyłam czarnych nici Liezbeth, 20.



Vintage brown thread

It is time for something new. During this summer I was in Poland and my grandmother has given me some old cordonnets. She used them to embroidery gorgeous tablecloths long, long ago.  Anyway – threads I got from her are really vintage –more than 30 years old for sure –and tat perfectly!!! So here we have a tatted set –earrings and a pendant- in brown with dusty pink beads and gold earrwires. The pattern is simple, but I just love the simplicity of this –definitely my favourite pattern so far.

Steel grey pendant

This is a tatted steel grey pendant (5 cm/2 inches long) with several dozens seed beads in Anthracite Black. The pattern comes from here. The thread is a Turkish cotton, a small 5 g ball, Oren Bayan Solmaz Koton Perle, colour nr 414, (This one is thinner than Aida 20 or Liezbeth 20). I was told few days ago that grey is a new black this season, so I think the pendant is very trendy just now.

Tatting - creative way to express myself

Lace jewellery is absolutely gorgeous. Definitely I spend too much time browsing all fantastic blogs and I just adore those stunning pieces of tatting art shown there. It is amazing how beautiful things you can make using old vintage patterns, formerly used as doilies, hunkies, collars, etc…They are easily adaptable to modern earrings, pendants, bracelets or necklaces . Every tatting motif, from very simple to very complicated, is feminine, elegant, sophisticated and stylish. If you add beads, crystals or pearls –you can get a stunning piece of jewellery –delicate, unique and eye-catching.

The next thing I love in tatting is the idea of connections with female traditions. I like thinking that I make things in the same way as women few generations before me… this is our heritage and it is worth to continue hand making crafts instead of, maybe cheap, but without a soul , things from factories in China, for example. This is also a creative way to express myself.

Recently I have found a very old beautiful pattern from Beeton’s Book of Needlework originally published in Great Britain in 1870 by Ward, Lock and Tyler. I have tatted this pendant using black Aida 20 and purple seed beads.

Sparkly night - tatted earrings

I am still playing with the ancient design, which I used here. I am changing the thickness of threads, colours, extra beads, crystals, etc.  I bought one Twilley’s Gold Fingering in silver and one in black. This is beautiful, with a jewel-like shine, a little bit thicker than threads I used before. I love the effect, which gives the connection of metallised thread combined with Swarovski crystals. It looks incredibly spectacular to me.

This pair of earrings is made with a black metalized thread (Twilley’s Gold Fingering), black Czech Glass Pressed Dagger Jet beads and seed beads in Anthracite black.

 

 

The next one is a gorgeous, sparkly pendant I have made with a silver thread I mentioned earlier. I tatted in Swarovski crystals (AB) and a big Swarovski face drop.

Here we have gorgeous black earrings (black Aida 20) with black Swarovski crystals (Jet AB) , black Czech Glass Pressed Dagger Jet beads and sterling silver earwires. They are made for my friend, who is going to wear it on her sister’s wedding. I am really glad she likes them.