Come to the party!

 Tonight’s the night!! Starting at 5:30 PM and finishing when the open rehearsal starts.

Art of Music Opening Reception

Sunset Center

Carmel, CA

Be there!!!

Listening time

It’s that time of year. I’ll be spending quite a bit of time listening over the next month. The Carmel Bach Festival started yesterday with a free concert. Today is another Masterclass. Tomorrow is more Masterclass discoveries. I’ll be the one tatting in the corner with my idea book open to a fresh page to capture thoughts for future designs.

Experimenting

Every once in awhile I let myself experiment. I’m always imagining how a thread or yarn will tat up. Recently, I was given a bit of “yarn” leftover from an amigurumi project. Just enough to create a flower using the tatting hooks. It came out OK. I disliked working with the “yarn” as it is a polyester sleeve over polyester core. Softish and spongy and just not pleasant. The flower turned out well enough to use as a patch or embellishment. The color reminds me of Cheetos snack. I think I’ll pass on tatting more with it.

Turn in time

I always get excited when it comes to turning in my pieces. Whether it’s the Fair, a Show, or a Fundraiser. Tomorrow, I turn in Melody in Mauve to the Carmel Bach Festival for their Art of Music raffle. I can’t wait to see what other artists have created! I hope people buy lots of tickets!!

Shawl questions

I started out wanting to tat a shawl. I’ve experimented with yarn. I found some bamboo yarn I like. Browsing through the books I have gave me plenty of ideas. Here’s what a square of 4 motifs looks like. 

I think this will do. Now to figure out the edging. It’ll be a heavy shawl. Just perfect for when the fog rolls in!

Getting to the final round

No, not a sports tournament. My latest hair bun holder!!

I like how it’s shaping up. I’ll be able to finish this soon.

I hope you find something to enjoy today!

Another find

Most of my tatting projects are in the not-ready-for-camera-lens stage. My piece for the Carmel Bach Festival Art of Music fundraiser is at the framer’s. My hair bun lace is close to being done, but not quite. My booties are still in the 2^nd sock syndrome stage. I’m in the process of tatting the Revers piece in a smaller thread.

I spent some time recently looking through all my WIP and deciding which ones I needed to work on first. Then, I went on a hike and saw this:

We were on the trail at Ano Nuevo State Park. Yes, there were seals. Yes, there were small lizards sunning themselves and birds galore. At one point, we were watching a flock of brown pelicans. There must have been 50 or so in the meadow! There were turkey vultures doing their thing keeping the beach clear of carrion. It wasn’t until a friend trained his rather professional type of camera at the tree that we realized the bird in the picture above wasn’t a hawk or turkey vulture. Those white feathers really are that dramatic. Even against the foggy sky. We were thrilled to see a Bald Eagle up close! We were able to get within a few feet of the tree (staying on the trail) and were so in awe. You never know what you will see in our parks around here. It makes walking for exercise that much more thrilling!

I was able to finish the last of the stars I've been tatting for Starfish Fibers. Whew! What will today hold????