Ecru Pendant Prototype Winner

Shabby Vintage

Good morning, dear readers!

 

The winner of the Ecru Pendant Prototype Give Away is:

 

judypudy

 

who wrote:

 Rachel..ALL your pieces are beautiful.i would love to OWN one..thanks...judypudy

 

Congratulations!  Please be so kind as to contact me before Monday morning with your pertinent information & I'll pop your new pendant into the post.

 

Well, dear readers, I greatly appreciate all of your kind comments on the give away post!  It certainly inspires me to design more goodies.

 

Speaking of goodies, my mother was digging in some old jewelry boxes and found a gorgeous carved & pierced Mother-of-Pearl brooch.  She has asked me to embellish it with tatting for her.  I'm deciding which of the many gorgeous Valdani pearl silks to use and am also sifting through the beads, pearls and Swarovskis for accents.  Fortunately, my mom likes the same colors I do and has given me carte blanche to design & embellish away.  I'll post an image Monday of the finished brooch.  If you follow me on facebook, you may see images of my progress this weekend.

 

Rosie Fey is spinning at the door & whining, so I had better take her for a run.  May you have a fabulous weekend full of tatting goodness.  Until Monday~

Happy Tatting!



Little Golden Pendant

Shabby Vintage

Good morning, dear readers!

 

My tatting needles have been busy tatting more prototypes. Here is the golden pendant I am working on fleshing out this morning:

 

 

I have a gorgeous little carved brown cow lip shell button I may use for the center accent.  Then again, there is a sparkly bronze Swarovski rondell that would look nice, too.  I'll decide what to use for the center after I complete a couple more rounds.  Do you have any suggestions?

 

Be sure to leave a comment on Tuesday's post for your chance to win the Ecru Pendant Prototype!  The winner will be selected tomorrow morning early before our walk in the woods.  Well, I'm burning daylight and have oodles to do today.  Hope you day is full of tatting goodness & remember to leave your comment!  Until tomorrow~

Happy Tatting!

 

 



Sulky Chartreuse Experiment

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Good morning, dear readers!

 

I had another idea flash through my brain yesterday as Rosie Fey & I were walking in the Piney Woods.  After we made it back to the house, I pulled out some of the Sulky 12 wt. thread I've been tatting with lately and a few Ornella cream pearl seed beads.  This is where I am at now:

 

 

What do you think?  I may need to make some adjustments as the number of seed beads add quite a bit of weight to the piece.  You never know what I may decide to do.  We'll just see how this current round goes.

 

I have been eyeing a lovely golden shade of Valdani Luxury Pearl Silk and may have to play with it in a while.  What tatting projects are you working on, dear readers?  I'd love to hear what you're up to!

 

Don't forget to leave a comment on yesterday's blog post for your chance to win the Ecru Pendant Prototype!  I am off to the park for a walk with some friends before settling in the Atelier for the day.  Have a great day & until tomorrow~

Happy Tatting!

 

 



Ecru Pendant Prototype Event

Shabby Vintage

Good morning, dear readers!

 

Here is the little pendant I tatted on Memorial Day.  I used 12 wt. Sulky thread in ecru and antique glass seed beads that I painstakingly picked off an old beaded bag.  The center accent is a sand colored button pearl with a single seed bead perched atop it.

 

 

This is just a prototype for a design I plan to offer in the Atelier Shoppe this Autumn.  I have already expanded the design and added additional rounds on another prototype.  The second prototype I did using Valdani Luxury Pearl Silk.  You'll have to wait until the entire design collection is debuted to view it, though!

 

This is an image of the beginning of prototype one-

 

 

Then I expanded it a tiny bit-

 

 

So, what do you think?  Do you like the new design? 

 

You know what???  I am in the mood to do a give away event.  If you would like to win this little pendant, please leave a comment on this blog post.  The winner will be chosen via random number generator early Friday morning.  The winner has until the following Monday to contact me or another winner will be selected, again via random number generator.  Good luck, and remember to leave a comment before Friday morning, May 31st, 2013!

 

Rosie Fey is ready for her walk, so we're off.  Have a great day & until tomorrow~

Happy Tatting!

 

 

 

 

 

 



Happy Memorial Day

Shabby Vintage

Good evening, dear readers!

 

I hope you all have had a wonderful Memorial Day.  We have enjoyed a fabulous weekend at the local park and at home.  Jim cooked out for us today and Rosie Fey was very patriotic in her stars & stripes bandana.

 

I have been playing with a pendant prototype and will have it posted for your viewing pleasure tomorrow morning.  I may even have a "special event" announcement...wink, wink!

 

Well, I am off to get Jim's work clothes ironed for the week ahead.  Have a great evening and be sure to check out the blog tomorrow.  Until then~

Happy Tatting!



Great Start to the Holiday Weekend

Shabby Vintage

Good evening, dear readers!

 

I have had an absolutely wonderful day!  After a leisurely morning of project organizing in the Atelier, I met my handsome husband for a lunch date at our favorite local restaurant.  Then I spent the afternoon shopping with our daughter.  We especially enjoyed visiting with Brenda & Travis at the Chartreuse Pear.  They never fail to have oodles of wonderful goodies and inspirational eye candy!  My current favorite product they carry (aside from the fabulous Lollia hand crèmes) is "French Velvet" linen spray.  You can use it on your linens, but it deodorizes like a dream!  Even wet doggy odor!  I spray it in my Jeep after taking Rosie Fey to the park.

 

After picking up a few items at the grocery store and seeing to Rosie Fey, I finally picked up the tatting needles.  Here is the next step on the motif I'm experimenting with:

 

 

I'm pleased with its progress, so far.

 

Kelly commented on my previous blog post concerning the thread/bead experiment about using beads and variegated thread.  This can be tricky to do, design wise, but should not hinder one from trying.  Pay careful attention to the intervals of color changes within the thread.  Some machine dyed threads are very regimented in their variegation, which I personally find repugnant and totally useless for my purposes.  Valdani threads are all ARTISAN HAND DYED.  This makes all of the difference.  There are also some gorgeous HDT to be found on Etsy- check out LadyShuttleMaker and YarnPlayer!  They have beautiful threads.

 

Another factor to consider is what size beads you choose to use.  With the silk thread, I am using size 11/0 seed beads.  These are small, light weight and are in colors that compliment the thread.  A contrasting color combination would look nice, too.  My advise it to tat with threads and beads in colors that make YOU happy. 

 

This is Memorial Day weekend here in the USA.  We take this time to remember all of those who have given their lives for our freedom.  Our family will celebrate by remembering the fallen heroes/heroines, cooking out and exercising our freedom by shooting on the target range and off-roading in the Jeep.  I hope to fit in some tatting time, too.  May you have a wonderfully creative weekend & until TUESDAY~

Happy Tatting!

 

 



Girls' Day Out

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Good afternoon, dear readers!

 

Jocelin and I had a nice day out.  We raided Books-A-Million, Target, PetCo, and Antique Alley.  Our lunch at the Piccadilly restaurant was most enjoyable.  It won't be long before my darling girl is grown and out on her own, so I treasure days like this more than you can imagine.

 

We did see a few goodies in the antique stores, but didn't purchase anything.  The couple of items I was interested in were way overpriced.  Jocelin found a lovely Coro brooch, but the pin back was beyond repair- and it was priced as if it were in mint condition.  Perhaps we will have better luck when we go junquing in Canton, Texas!  I always find lots of goodies there.  And we've not visited Vicksburg in a couple of months.  Guess we have a lot of antiquing/junquing trips to do this summer.

 

Well, I am off to take a relaxing bath before Jim gets home.  He doesn't know it yet, but he's grilling supper.  I plan to spend tomorrow afternoon in the Atelier after running errands, so there is a good chance I'll actually get some new eye candy up on the blog afterwards.  Have a wonderful day & until tomorrow~

Happy Tatting!