I am happy to post that the next holiday I am catching up on
is Valentines day and I actually get to say that I sent them out. Unfortunately,
there is some bad news as well. I didn’t send them out in a very timely manner which
is a huge shame because I actually had these doodads done for last years holiday
and just didn’t send them out. Part of the reason why they didn’t get sent out
last year is because I didn’t love the way they turned out and partly because I
couldn’t come up with a card and partly because of the shame of not sending out
the Christmas cards.
This is the first time I have tried adding beads into the
tatting project itself, it’s also the first time I had attempted split rings. I
got the pattern here on Etsy. I tried tatting
the key a couple of different ways but because my picots are out of control since
the last couple of projects I did I wanted big floppy picots and the thread I
use doesn’t really allow for small picots to look good ( I used size 10 Artiste
thread called cloud. ) I decided to omit the picots. I still didn’t love the
way these turned out and adding the beads, especially the one that you have to
add to the second half of a split ring, really was not fun so I only ended up
making 12 of these. Since I didn’t make enough
of these and I wanted to give a few more people valentines I sent out a couple
of the doodads that I had left over from previous years.
When I went to put these together I found that when I made
the beaded hearts I didn’t account for a way to attach them to the tatting. Usually I add extra beads or a bigger bead on
top to attach them but for some reason I didn’t this time. The beads were so
small that I couldn’t find a split ring with small enough wire to go through them,
so I ended up making my own rings. They don’t look very good but at least I got
them attached.
Here's to hoping that I will post again real soon!
