Chimaera Creations

TIAS 2016 Days 8,9,10

2016-01-30T20:12:00.000-08:00

Now I'm thinking a little bunny.

TIAS 2016

2016-01-25T18:24:00.000-08:00

I've still been tatting even if I haven't been updating often enough. Here's my progress so far (up to day 8). I'm guessing it's a FROG.

Twirlz

2014-09-29T20:09:00.001-07:00

Handy hands included a sample of their new thread with the latest newsletter. Just looking at the thread makes my eyes cross, so it'll be interesting to see how it tatts up. I'm going to do up Konior's Ring A Ring O' Roses, which I've not done before.

TIAS days 6-7, Mystery Doily and Earrings

2013-10-11T17:06:00.001-07:00

Here is the next 2 days work on TIAS. You can see how it was cupping, before I gently stretched it out. I don't know if this means my picots are too long or too short.

I had also started in on the Mystery Doily that so many other tatters have been working on.

This weekend is Tucson Meet Yourself, and the tatting club will be there demonstrating lace. It looks like there will be even more 'folk artists' this year, and I'm looking forward to some delicious food from all the world's corners!

TIAS Days 2-5

2013-10-03T20:24:00.001-07:00

Hmmm... Is it perhaps a pumpkin coach?

TIAS

2013-09-28T20:57:00.001-07:00

It's that time again. Sherry pence (aka LadyShuttleMaker) is running this one. I wonder what it will be! You can catch up here.

Lizbeth fail

2013-05-06T20:55:00.001-07:00

Almost finished tatting up a Marilee Rocklee design and the thread breaks :( It's the same thread I used for Neibach's Amanda - Lizbeth size 40 col 665 and I have never had a Lizbeth thread break on me this much! It broke on me so much while tatting Amanda. Has anyone else had this problem?

Milena, Delia and the County Fair

2013-04-30T20:52:00.002-07:00

I finished Milena over a week ago. I did iron it but the tatting club was demonstrating at the Pima County Fair, so it's not as flat as it was.

SO CLOSE to finishing Delia (only 3 rings left!) and my shuttle's out of thread :(

I think I'll start Beatrice next...

And from the Pima County Fair, another blue ribbon. It doesn't seem as cool when yours is the only tatting entered. If you notice that it looks different from the last photo I posted, I added parchment paper as the background. It looks like rice paper!

I finally finished a Neibach!

2013-04-05T17:01:00.000-07:00

Amanda

It's been a long time coming, and I had to do a lot of untatting but it's finally done! This puppy is going to the Pima County fair in a week :)

Now that I've finished this one, I think I'm going to try and do every single doily in this book.

Trying Niebach

2013-04-05T16:56:00.003-07:00

We were moving at the beginning of this year, so not many chances to post, but I've been tatting. I got Iris Niebach's 'Tatted Doilies'.

I could not for the life of me figure out how to read the diagrams, so I just did the middle rounds of Annalisa, and then kind of got the diagram.

I thought I had the diagram under my belt, but as you can see from the picture of Milena, I screwed up the joins around the josephine rings.

So we're trying again...

TIAS Day 9

2013-02-05T12:16:00.001-08:00

Day 9

TIAS 2013

2013-01-23T19:49:00.001-08:00

It's time again for another TIAS! Perhaps it's a basket?

Pineapple doily finished

2012-11-13T17:47:00.001-08:00

Woo it's been awhile, but I've been tattingtattingtatting.

The written pattern for this was awful. Luckily there were pics that I could look at to make a visual pattern from.

size 80 DMC

Wickedtats giveaway

2012-06-14T19:52:00.001-07:00

Wickedtats is having a giveaway and there's only a little time left to enter. Go check it out!

Tischband revisited

2012-06-07T16:01:00.001-07:00

2 flowers and 2.5 leaves to finish

Here's are some finished projects and beginning another Tischband

2012-05-30T16:04:00.001-07:00

I finished this little guy a while ago.

I've been working with size 40 so much lately that it seems working in 80 has gotten easier. So I've started a pineapple doily (not my own pattern- it's written out and I've already found mistakes in the pattern, so I'm making a diagram of the pattern as I go along, fixing those mistakes)

In this last Handy Hands newsletter there was a free handkerchief, so I immediately started working on an edging (pattern from same newsletter).

I pretty much hate pink, so this is going to mom (she loves pink).

I'm also starting another Tischband, different colors this time and in size 40 instead of 20. We'll see how this goes.

Sherry's at it again!

2012-05-15T16:55:00.000-07:00

I have so many things to post about, but a quick note that LadyShuttlemaker is having another Mondo giveaway !

Tischband Finished

2012-03-24T15:22:00.001-07:00

For next time, I'll do one less round on the flowers like others have suggested.

Oh boy.

It certainly flattened after ironing, but it's still a little wonky.

Tischband Almost Finished

2012-03-01T15:53:00.002-08:00

On the last leaf and I've run out of thread! I literally only have the last 7 chains (two joins) to do and the shuttle is empty. I don't want to refill the shuttle just to finish the little bit left, so that means finger tatting. I'm ok with that...it can be a bit of a pain if you have a lot of thread though. Oh well.

I've seen that others have the same problem I'm going to have when I do the last two joins, in the the piece won't be laying flat. I'm hoping a hot steamy iron will take care of that.

I think I'm going to leave this piece at this size, starch it and have a little coaster. It's the perfect size for a coaster.

I won!

2012-02-22T17:50:00.000-08:00

Jess over at Tat-licious had a give-away of some of her HDT. I received a package full of lovelies the other day.

Awesome!

Robots! =D

Beautiful HDT! The pic doesn't do the colors justice, they look so much richer in person. From back to front: Rustic Cranberry, Pink Western, Chocolate Romance. The pink in Rustic Cranberry is REALLY PINK! Thanks Jess!

If you like HDT you can find her's here.

Continuing the Tat-Along

2012-02-22T16:22:00.000-08:00

On the second leaf, I did a downward picot for the first normal picot and then folded the work over itself (like a movie clapboard) which made it lay more nicely. You really have to pay attention on the leaf, not get up to do anything else between start and finish.

Tatted Treasures is at it again

2012-02-20T14:54:00.000-08:00

Tatted Treasures is having another giveaway - this time it's Lyn Morton's Christmas book, Oren Bayan metallic thread and some lovely beads. Head on over and enter to win!

Tischband Tat-Along: Blatt 2 pattern

2012-02-16T21:21:00.000-08:00

I think for the rest of the leaves I'm going to make the first 'real' picot a downward picot and then just fold the tatting over itself. I'm leaving the last two flowers for after the leaves so that I can easily join them. You can read more about the Tat-Along here.

RIP Tatting Goddess

2012-02-14T19:30:00.000-08:00

I've never met Gina, but she was always lovely when we were discussing tips/tricks in certain tatting patterns. She will be missed.

Tischband Tat-Along!

2012-02-13T16:57:00.000-08:00

Fresh of this years TIAS we have a great tat-along from Umi&Tsuru of a Ruth Scharf pattern (You can check out the details here).

First comes the Blute 1, which are the flowers. I've only done two so far, and I might keep the last two until after the leaves.

I'll be doing the leaves in yellow.