Snakes And Lizards

 

You want a food cover with tatted snakes and lizards?  Sure, no problem. For the lizards I used Jane Eborall's Pamela's Gecko pattern, and for the snakes I adapted a Teiko Fujito edging. The butterflies are also Jane Eborall's pattern, the SCMR butterfly. 

Sewing

 

I took some time off working on the food cover to sew myself a dress over the weekend. I bought the fabric months ago, but there always seemed like something more urgent needed doing than turning it into a dress. I tried to take a selfie, but that didn't show how the dress looks on, so I took a photo in the mirror. There was plenty of fabric, so I was able to cut carefully positioning the motifs on the fabric, lining up the motifs on back and front skirts and that sort of thing. 

Another Gecko And A Snake

 

The brief for the food cover is lizards, snakes and butterflies. Right. Jane Eborall's gecko works fine for the lizard. What about a snake? Google threw up great numbers of tattooed snakes, so that wasn't useful. Pinterest gave me one pattern, by a Canadian designer, on Etsy, but it was a rather frivolous snake. Instead, I turned to Teiko Fujito and adapted the pattern I used on a skirt last year. 

I left the picots off and added a head and tail. The head is a bit small because I ran out of thread. I started with a chain for the tail and am pleased with the idea, though it needs a little tweaking. 

Geckos, Tatted And Real

 

I've tatted two geckos for my food cover, carefully marking off each line of the pattern as I go. 

There was a gecko on the pantry window last night, so I took a photo of him. This is his underside, but look at his legs, they show how clever Jane Eborall's  pattern is. 

In The File

 

The next food cover requires lizards. I've tatted Jane Eborall's gecko before and I reckon it qualifies as a lizard. It was tempting to just print the pattern out again, but in the interest of saving ink, I trawled through my file until I found it. It has a mark against each line for each time I've used the pattern. Surely that's unnecessary I muttered to myself as I started tatting. That was until I looked carefully and saw I'd tatted an extra ring. I will have to start again, and this time I'll mark each line so I'm sure of where I am in the pattern.

Lavender Again

 The market on Saturday had a lot of stalls, but not that many customers. I sold enough to make it worth my while, and enjoyed the morning. 

I'm working on the second half of the lavender order. 

I'm not sure I'll finish today because my little sewing pupil is coming this afternoon. I'll see how it goes. I have another food cover order to work on after this order is done. 

Market On Saturday

 

There's a market on Saturday, so I'm working on getting ready for that. I've been knitting the fingerless gloves, Leaves by ValKnitting, as take along knitting, but yesterday I finished off the thumbs at home. The yarn is my handspun wool.  Today I'm working on  puppets. I sold three at the last market, so I need to make at least another three.