Yah!!!!! Tatting

I finally have some Tatting to show you. This is the first two rounds of Flowery Meadow Doily from the book Tatting Patterns and Designs by Gun Blomqvist and Elwy Persson. I am using Lizbeth size 40 thread 138 Leafy Greens for the chains and 668 Orchid Green Dark.

Tatting and Weekend Inspiration

"We shall never know all the good 

that a simple smile can do."

-Mother Teresa

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"One does not get to know that one exists

until one rediscovers oneself in others."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"Life is so constructed that an event does not,

cannot, will not, match the expectation."

-Charlotte Bronte

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,

the wise grows it under his feet."

-James Oppenheim

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"How wonderful it is that nobody need

wait a single moment before starting

to improve the world."

-Anne Frank

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"The good life is inspired by love

and guided by knowledge."

-Bertrand Russell

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Taking joy in living is a women's best cosmetic."

-Rosalind Russell

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Do not allow yourselves to be

disheartened by any failures

as long as you have done your best."

-Mother Teresa

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"People who say it cannot be done

should not interrupt those who are doing it."

-George Bernard Shaw 

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

This doily is another one of my creations.

"True life lies in laughter, love and work."

-Elbert Hubbard

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

This doily is own of my own designs.

"Just don't give up trying to do what you 

really want to do. Where there is love and

inspiration, I don't think you can  go wrong."

-Ella Fitzgerald

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward,

and try to keep looking upward."

-Charlotte Bronte