Playing with beads

It is great fun playing with tatting and beads. Almost everything I have made, my daughter grabs it. That is a good sign that she likes my crafts, isn’t it? Just now I am trying to learn how to use beads in my tatted jewellery. This is not easy, if you have to learn without a teacher. No, of course I have got a lot of great teachers –everybody, who is so kind to share knowledge and passion about tatting! Thank you all very much. I have learnt decoupage from internet, now I am learning to tat– this is really fantastic!

Below are tatted earings with pink shining beads hanged on decoupaged by me jar:

And here we have a small pendant (or a first earring) with cream Swarovski pearls:

Black tatted earrings with red Swarovski crystals

After your lovely comments of my tatted earrings I decided to show a black version with red Swarovski crystals. I would like to ask you a question – do you think this is my desing? Recently I wrote that I have inspiration from the doily I am making now. I change it a little bit to make an earring shape. I am totally beginner in a tatters world, so I don’t have an idea what to think about it...

Polish president Lech Kaczynski killed

Polish president Lech Kaczynski and other senior officials are among dozens of people killed when their plane crashed in western Russia

Earrings

I did not have much time to tat in Easter, but ... yes, I made something! I made lovely ecru earrings with small beads in dirt pink colour. I have been shopping recently and I really love this season trends… There are a lot of lovely pink, gorgeous laces, romantic roses…. When I was making the doily, I loved the motif from it and tried to make earrings with that it. I would like to thank AgaArt for showing me, how to make earrings. Please take a look.

I have been featured !!!

Wow, I am so happy, I have been featured in a  Creative Crafting  Magazine, Easter Issue, nr 4,   in a "Gift Ideas" article.

I am still tatting

Yes, I am still tatting....Browsing the internet I recently have found Renulek's blog about tatting. She is amazing; I like her tatted pieces very much. She made some online doily challenge/tutorial, whatever you call this... So here is my (very imperfect) central motif of that adorable doily.

Here is another motif from Renulek's blog (completely wrong, I know...)

And below you can see the chocker (ok, the part of the choker) from Tatting Patterns by Lyn Morton

Easter -Sweet Violets

Easter is quickly approaching, spring is coming timidly and everywhere there are beautiful little flowers. I love violets, forget-me-nots, lilies of the valley. All of them appear on the beautiful Victorian cards. Below I present some Easter postcards with sweet violets.

Progress in tatting and new trinket box

With all my love to the past times, the beauty of Victorian era, decorations of our great-grandmothers – I think tatting and my decoupage pieces compose together very well.

Girl Tatting c. 1906

by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I must confess that the tatting takes me a lot of time. A lot of patience too. But I love effects, so here I present my tatting progress:

I do not know who is the author of this pattern. I found this somewhere on the internet, if you know the author, please let me know.

This gorgeous trinket box I decorated using decoupage technique and finished with acrylic wax. This gives a  feeling and apperance of a wax varnish and is a water and heat resistant.

 

Tatting - next step

As I said in my previous post, I am totally hooked in tatting. It is always nice to learn something new, especially something really pretty…of course I have 1000000000000 questions, but I enjoy learning to tat –so this is the most important, isn’t it?

Below I present few my newest tatted “motives”

Can I ask you a favour? I need a few simple patterns for beginners (at this moment I can use only one shuttle…). I will be grateful for some links.

Tatting

 I am totally in love with tatting. Recently I discovered gorgeous tatting jewellery made by TataniaRosa. Last week I visited  Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts show in Glasgow  and I met there lovely ladies from THE RING OF TATTERS. One of them tried to show me how to tat, but it was totally magic for me…but I bought a starter kit from her and…. Here it is, my very first basic tatting lace I made: