tatting and kittyspam

[telophase]

I made a wee!lumpy!doily!



The wee lumpy doily lifesize - about 2inches in diameter. In some dimensions. It's got picots (the small loops) of totally varying sizes, twists, extra stitches, dropped stitches, and I ahd to unpick and retat the last inner loop four times before I got the right number of sitches and picots, and attached it correctly. Whee!



And closer, so you can glory in the awfulness of my knots and loops.




And this is the Evil Orange Nemesis that made my cat piddle on the floor in terror rage. It was night, and through my screen, and the camera insisted on focusing on the screen and bouncing the flash off it, and the cat left before I could get the camera adjusted properly. So it shall remain evil and shadowy. And fluffy.



(I have a photo where all you can see is blurry gray and white from edge to edge ... with two glowing pinpricks of PURE FLUFFY EVIL, but didn't bother to upload.)

And here is my cat, all fluffy and big and scared brave, sniffing at the screen veeeeeery suspiciously, because she knows that PURE FLUFFY EVIL is lurking outside.

Comments

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Cool! Neat tatting pattern here (http://www.tat-man.net/patterns/motifs.html) and here (http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art5116.asp).

Also the cameraphone cat picture looks just like a mural!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks! XD

Ulterior motive

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say no to a mini bat garland. XD

Re: Ulterior motive

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heee. :D I'll what I can do. :)

[flyingpeachbun.livejournal.com]

X3 I love when my cat puffs up like a raccoon like that...

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

i'm really glad you posted the picture of the tatting, because i had NO IDEA what you meant--except that you obviously didn't mean tattooing, which is sometimes what i've heard people mean when they've said "tatting". XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D As you can tell from the photos, it's basically a way of making lace by looping and knotting thread or yarn.

The really cool way to make lace is by bobbins, which requires a pillow, lots of pins, thread wound on a few to many, may, many bobbins, and you loop and twist the thread around the pins to form patterns in lace. Looks really nifty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbin_lace Some lacemakers use, like, 1200 bobbins to do really wide pieces. Samples of antique bobbin lace: http://www.marlamallett.com/l-bobbin.htm

"The Bobbin Lace Manual"

[rgbrobbie.livejournal.com]

The really cool way to make lace is by bobbins,

Once upon a time, I fantasized about learning how to make bobbin lace. (I'd attended a hands-on tutorial at - I think it was - Costume Con here in Southern California, circa 1991.) So,I bought a lovely little Dover softcover book, which has now been on my shelf for 15 years. I know now that I will NEVER invest in all the equipment, let alone have the time to learn how to do it. So... if you are interested in giving this book a good home, I'd be happy to drop it in the mail to you. (I've known for a long time I'd be parting with this book, but was hesitant to give it up until I knew it had the right home.)

Re: "The Bobbin Lace Manual"

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'll take it - I think I may even have stuck it on my Amazon wishlist last night. :D

It may be a bit before I get to it - my mom seems insistent on getting me into kumihumo braiding for some reason, possibly because she got a foam-core er, thingy to use to do it at a weaving conference and is tired of looking at it, and I think her Christmas plans involve leaping onto me brandishing the thingy until I learn to use it in self-defense. And I realized last night that in that case I could probably braid a bunch of badge lanyards and sell 'em at A-Kon, touting the Authentic! Japanese! Technique! (Maybe. We'll see. :D)

But I still have that "Ooooh! Bobbin lace!" thing going. XD

Re: "The Bobbin Lace Manual"

[rgbrobbie.livejournal.com]

Email your snail address to robinschin AT aol-dot-com and the next time I go to the post office, I'll drop it in the mail to you. :)

Re: "The Bobbin Lace Manual"

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Just sent! And thank you very much! :DD

[rabican.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's what it is.

I had a very strange dream last night wherein you were relearning tatting, I was wondering what it was, and it turned out to be lace embroidery on stone. Like, sewing through the stone, not just on top of it.

I really need to stop designing jewelry for my shop at 3 AM.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee. Better than my dreams last night, which were confusing and frustrating and wound up with me dreaming I had to go to the bathroom, and looking for an unoccupied one, and when I found one, every time I got a door closed and locked another one would appear and open and people would wander in, ignoring my screams of "GET OUT!" I finally woke up and realized that, ya know, I need to go to the bathroom. Dreams like that seem to be my body's way of telling me to wake the hell up and go to the bathroom. :/

[sangria2.livejournal.com]

I love your cat so much! Absolutely precious.

On a different note entirely, I've been out of the loop for over a week. Have you heard anything on the Christmas decants? Thanks!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

ACK! I am very very sorry for not getting back to you earlier - if I manage to let an email/LJ notification age off the main page, I tend to forget it was there.

I haven't placed the order yet - was going to do so after the vacation, but got siderailed by being sick and it slipped my mind. If you'd like your money back to get decants on the forums/LJ comm (you'll probably get them faster that way, in all honesty), let me know and I'll send it.

If not, I'll place the order in the next couple of days - I need to collect payment from one or two more people first - and if I don't post about it, poke me again.

Many apologies - I fell down on this one. :)