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Palmetto Tatter Tat Days 2012 have come and gone and I was fortunate to be able to attend. The event is hosted at The Georgia Baptist Convention Center in Toccoa, GA. While there I took 4 classes. Tat Days is always a lot of fun and this year was not different. I saw some friends from previous Tat Days and also made some new friends.Tat Day 2013 have been set for September 5-8. Hope to see you there.



I also signed up for Marilee Rockley's Tatting Class on Craftsy. Two of Marilee's passions are tatting and hand dyeing threads. She has a wonderful blog and Etsy shop. One of the projects from the Craftsy class is "Floret"- tatted earrings. I plan on using this pattern to tat some earrings for  Christmas presents. So far I have finished tatting one set and started another.  Just 7 more sets to go.




Pattern: Floret - Marilee Rockley
Thread: Manuela sz 20 Color 034
Delica 11/0 beads Color 042

Thanks for stopping by,
Gwen

Hello, It's Me Again

This blog has been woefully neglected. Up until this weekend I had not picked up my tatting shuttles, or knitting needles in months. I am not a very accomplished knitter any way so no surprise there, however I was taking part in the 25 Motif Challenge and thoroughly enjoyed that. I need to recommit.  Although I have been doing some paper crafts I did not take many pictures or post any. Thanks to Lelia, who left a comment for me this weekend I got out my shuttle and made a small butterfly from 50 Butterflies Migrating, Palmetto Tatters Guild (PTG on FB). I want to make a few more and send them on to Houston for the Butterfly Project. I will post some pictures later when I get some more done.

In the meantime here is a crate of chocolate filled carrots that I made to share with my co-workers over the Easter weekend. The crate and carrots were from 2 kits from SVG Cuts.