Tatting has been done! Not big projects or complicated patterns, but shuttles have been used.
A friend of mine celebrated her birthday a few days ago. She works at the local Senior Center and is well known. The Center arranged a party for her, which was attended by many in the community. Mostly people's presence was their gift to her, but there were a lot of cards also. We gave her a card, but how could I not add a little something? I thought a paperclip bookmark would be a thoughtful gift.
This bookmark is a simple paperclip with a line of split-rings attached. The dragonfly charm is connected at both top and bottom to stabilize it. The bottom is strands of thread strung through the bottom picot of the last ring, then braided. I originally tied a knot at the bottom, as it was when I took this picture. I didn't like the look so took out the knot and left the bottom without, then used fabric glue to keep them from coming undone. It looked good.
The other tatting done is a remake of an earring I made a couple of years ago. The earring wasn't all that great, but I liked the idea of it. I modified it quite a bit to come up with this version. Not sure if I'll make the other earring to this or not.
Unusually for me, I used a few beads. I keep looking at this, trying to think of what else I could do with it besides as an earring. I'll keep looking.
I'm hoping to take more time to tat this year. I am no long the chair of a board of our church so I don't have those responsibilities, which should give me more time to tat. More importantly, I'll have more energy to imagine more things. What a concept!
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
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