Daisy, Daisy

 

I sewed the tatting to my food cover yesterday. It's not easy to photograph, looks better in real life than it does here. There are five butterflies as well as the flowers. 

Someone Else's Stash

 

I had a phone call from an acquaintance yesterday asking if I was home. I was. She arrived with several carrier bags of yarn for me, and two half done garments, a cardigan and a sleeveless pullover, which she asked me to complete. She's moving to a smaller home and needs to downsize. My heart sank a bit. It's a generous gift, and what I can't use I'll pass on to knitters at the retirement home. But I'm going to feel guilty until I finish the knitting, which I have neither the time nor the inclination to do right now. 

I have an order for another 10 tatted lavender bunches. I'd like to deliver 5 on Saturday, so I worked on those yesterday and put the food cover on hold.  As I tatted, I listened to a series of podcasts, Visible Women on Tortoise media. It was very interesting. Apparently, women are less safe in cars than men, because crash test dummies are based on male bodies. Men's pyjamas have pockets, but women's don't. Who knew? 

Edged

 

I've finished the edging of the latest food cover, a combination of  machine embroidery and beads. The beads are a bit bigger than the ones I used last time. I thought it would look a bit crowded with a bead for every leaf pair, so I  sewed a bead on every second leaf. 

I did two flowers from Jennifer Williams's Cariad Tatting,  Spring Flower and Flower using two layered tatting .

I'm rapidly giving up on the idea of doing a bouquet in each corner though. It's all taking way too long, considering the price I quoted and the number of other things I have to do. 

Daisy Doodle And More

 

The lady who ordered the third food cover said she wants daisies on it. I fiddled with stitch counts and different constructions until I came up with this. I'm sure there are similar patterns out there, but I'm not going to scour the internet looking for them. I'm all for protecting copyright, but I think the Just Tatting site on Facebook gets a bit carried away when it comes to people independently coming up with similar designs.  

I showed Chantelle the daisy; she likes it, and is happy to have other flowers on the food cover too. I thought I might do 'bouquets' in the corners and scattered daisies in the centre. Where to begin? I started with Jane Eborall's This Way And That Way pattern. If you look at the pattern, you'll see it's a snowflake! It looks like a flower to me, but to emphasise its floweriness, I did muskaan's leaf to put alongside them.

I love both these patterns, and they're both copyright-worthy!

Food Cover

 

All the butterflies are attached and the second food cover  is done. I listened to podcasts as I sewed and used white thread throughout and it went quite quickly. 

Angels and Butterflies

 

We made fabric angels at the retirement home on Friday. I saw several examples on Pinterest and then followed a series of links until I found this tutorial.  It's always fun to see the different versions of a project that emerge. 

I'm still working on Jane Eborall butterflies for my second food cover. I should have enough by the end of the day and be able to start sewing them to the net. 

Another Butterfly Net

 

My friend Grace asked me to make two butterfly food covers. I'm working on the second one. I've done the edging, with machine embroidered leaves and beads. I need to tat a lot more SCMR butterflies. 

I showed a picture of the first net to someone else and she asked me to make her a daisy one. So that's been added to my to-do list.