Monday, 7 april 2008 Almost party time

Nora is preparing her birthday party. I wanted to share this with you.
Her birthday is next thursday 10 april.

Maandag, 31 maart 2008 test tat

De test tat angel is van Ruth Perry, I really like this

angel. And what really is fun I could make a bow in the ends so didn't have to hide them

I am busy with preparations for the palmetto tatdays and for our own guild

I would that I could find some time, but don't know where

Here is the tulip from Diane M Saunders TIAS

Again a lot of dutch tatters made one you can see tham on my special blog:

http://b-engel.blogspot.com/

Donderdag 6 maart 2008 Name tak holders

At least I found a way to put the flowers in clear glas.

The flowers are made with a pattern of Ineke Kuiperij from her book Allerhande 1.

The thread is aurifil # 50/2, a bobbinlace thread, thinner than DMC 100

the leaves are made with a pattern from Tonie Storer's book Tatting Down The Garden Path

The thread ia DMC #80

There is also a picture where the cards are

taken away, so you can see the flowers better.

Don't you think this is better than the white sand?

Donderdag, 28 februari 2008

At least it worked
I bought some glas name tage holders for on a dinertable, instead of real flowers I tatted a flowerand want to put that in the holder, my my what a struggle.
Nithing worked. Now you see it and in the glas is some sand, not that nice, but I think I will buy something what you use for kandles. It is clear and you have it in some colours.
I think I will use green .
It will be much nicer when you can look through the glass I think

Zondag, 24 februari 2008

I still am busy with all kinds of things that had to be done.

Here is a little thing that had to be on a zipper.

It is a pattern of Jane Eborall

They are really funny and verry fast done, but there is always the problem, to find an empty shuttle and to find the beads and the thing to hang on.

Here is an angel, my own design, I used the skirt of the Sun Bonnet Sue motif in the Big Book of Tatting, to create this angel,

The pattern is to find on the class on line.

There are two different angels, the flower is from Helma Siepmann.

This one was ordered and I am happy it is ready, so I can bring it away

Have to do still two flowers and have to do something with a little box for our Guild meeting and that is in 2 weeks. I always run out of time.

So let us go on.

Woensdag, 20 februari 2008

I am verry busy at this moment with the TIAS from Jane and Adriane and the chalanges of Jane on my other blog a blog in the dutch language
http://tatitandsee.blogspot.com/
special done for the members of my guild who don't read english and they like it to take part in all these things. Let us be honest, most of the tatting comes from english sites.

Here is chalange 3 from Jane Eborall, tatted by a pattern made by Gina Oschmann a dutch tatter and member of our guild. The pattern and the diagram is on my dutch blog. I will translate it into english, but again time. I am also busy with the patterns for the palmetto tatdays.

Here is the result of the TIAS of Jane Eborall. It was realy fun and I hope that there will be more of this kind of things. At this moment the hippo's are flying in from all over the world to Jane.

Meaby a chalange for someone to gave him/her wings???????

I promissed you that I should let you see some children that came on 6 januari at my front door to sing a song They are dressed up as kings and carry with them a bag or basket for the sweets they suppose to get.

In the first picture you see three kings there were four

(that are children, sometimes there is only 1 king and he sings three kings three kings gave me a new hat)

the little king was shy and hide herself , but I got her the second time.

There she is still shy and the the little boy looks like asking "what is going on here" Children always surprise you.They also have with them Chinese Lanterns

When you go down town you see a lot of those children, but also adults and they sing wonderfull . Most off the time it is a choir and they sing for monney. They have special projects, they sing for and it happened that the kings are sitting on real camels. I was not down town this year, was to busy making my special dutch blog for TIAS