Tea Break

It was a Saturday afternoon and although most people were enjoying their weekend, these two men were enjoying their tea break.

We were at Sim Lim Square shopping and while walking to the car, I took this photo. The building is La Salle College of the Arts. There were also some students rehearsing by the corridors.

Conifer Outline?

No, its just an edging I started. This is Mary Konior's Chain Reaction from her book 'Tatting with Visual Patterns'. It progresses quite fast once you get the hang of it and memorize the pattern. This is done in Venus Size 40 in #235.

My Plant Nursery

I've turned part of my balcony into a nursery. 

Propagation by cuttings. 

These are all easy to grow plants 

as that is how they have survived in this balcony.

Floral Bouquet Doily WIP 4

Remember this Morimoto doily? I finished the large round. Two more rounds to go. This is tatted in Size 60 and it is already measuring 17 inches across. It will probably finish with an extra inch or two. Quite difficult to block as it has lots of negative spaces and I need to get a larger blocking board. 

I wonder perhaps if you tat it in size 10, it might be large enough to dress a small table.

White Organza Bag - Shooting Star

This is a white organza bag with a shooting star I tatted months back. 

I'm giving this away. 

If you would like a chance with the random number generator, just leave a comment here before 10 Dec 2014.

Good luck!

Purple Organza Bag Winner

Using the Random Number Generator, #1 was picked again this time. It goes to Jane McLellan. Please send me your mailing address. 

Thank you everyone for participating. 

East Residential Skyline

We were up on the roof top of a building in the east of Singapore and this is the view towards the north. Mostly residential buildings.

Below is the view towards south of Singapore and you can see the Central Business District - tall buildings on the right.

A New Favourite

This was an interesting motif to tat. It is done in one round- three rings, then a chain. The pattern is from the 'Occhi' book by Langwieser and Scharowa (peacock on the cover). I was looking for a simple edging pattern when I noticed this on page 101. This is tatted in Lizbeth size 40 in #158 Niagara Falls.

Had to try it the second time with beads in Lizbeth size 40 in #657 Ocean Turquoise Dark. It gave it a totally different look, don't you think?

Magical Christmas in Blue

Christmas decorations are up in most malls. 

This is one of the malls we visited last weekend.

Have you started your Christmas shopping?

I'm feeling unmotivated.

Hopefully the Christmas atmosphere in the shops will change my mood!

In the Mail . . .

I received the shuttles and the 'Aunt Ellen's Treasury Tatting Patterns' book in the mail days ago. This is what resulted. 

Thank you for the lovely shuttles, C. 

Here tatted in Lizbeth size 20 threads is the Daisy Heart. I might try it again in one colour. We will see. Tatting is a little slow these days.