Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"The best way out is always through."

-Robert Frost

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Those who dream by day are

cognizant of many things to escape

those who dream only at night."

-Edgar Allen Poe

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Working in the garden....gives me

a profound feeling of inner peace."

-Ruth Stout

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

 "If you don't like something, change it.

If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Don't complain."

-Maya Angelou 

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

"Dreams are necessary to life."

-Anais Nin

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 Thursday's Inspiration

This is an eighteen inch wide doily that I made as a heirloom piece for my daughter to hand down to her children. It was made from size 80 hand dyed thread. The pattern came from Georgia's website for the online tatting class.

"When the heart weeps for what it has lost,

the spirit laughs for what it has found."

-Sufi Suying

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"It is by going down into the abyss that

we recover the treasures of life. Where you

stumble, there lies your treasure."

-Joseph Campbell

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"There are three ingredients in the good life;

learning, earning and yearning."

-Christopher Morley

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

"Don't part with your illusions.

When they are gone you may still

exist, but you have ceased to live."

-Mark Twain

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 Thursday's Inspiration

As you can see this doily was the perfect home for this very large piece of Green Calcite.

"Adventure is worthwhile."

-Amelia Earhart

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward,

and try to keep looking upward."

-Charlotte Bronte

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere

sense of living is joy, enough."

-Emily Dickinson

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

Don't take life seriously because

you can't come out of it alive."

-Warren Miller

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

One more row to go.

"What's the use of worrying?

It never was worthwhile."

-George Asaf

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"Not knowing when the dawn will come,

I open every door."

-Emily Dickinson

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"The indispensable first step to

getting the things you want out of life

is this: decide what you want."

-Ben Stein

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

This is after 5 rounds.

"Life appears to me to be too short to be spent

in nursing animosity or registering wrong."

-Charlotte Bronte

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

This is with 4 rounds complete.

"No matter how good you get you can always

get better and that's the exciting part."

-Tiger Woods

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

Over the next 7 days I will be posting my progress on a doily that I made. Sorry but I do not remember where I found the pattern. This is the first three rounds.

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then

walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever

you do you have to keep moving forward."

-Martin Luther King. Jr.

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

"Courage is not the absence of fear,

but rather the judgement that something

else is more important than fear."

-Ambrose Redmoon

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

This was going to be a tablecloth But I got tired of working on it so I decided it made a nice table runner.

"Learning to live in the present moment 

is part of the path of joy."

-Sarah Ban Breathnach

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

Pattern by Marilee Rockley

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon

verdure, is the most perfect refreshment."

-Jane Austen

(verdure means- the greenness of growing vegetation; also :  such vegetation itself)

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Letting ourselves be forgiven is one

of the most difficult healings we will

undertake. And one of the most fruitful."

-Stephen Levine

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Life is 'trying things to see if they work'."

-Ray Bradbury

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

"Always remember that the future

comes one day a a time."

-Dean Acheson

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

"Do not dwell in the past, do not

dream of the future, concentrate

the mind on the present moment."

-Buddha

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"I am always doing that which I cannot do,

in order that I may learn how to do it."

-Pablo Picasso

Tatting and Thursday's Inspiration

"I like my money right where I can see it-

hanging in my closet."

-Sarah Jessica Parker

Tatting and Wednesday's Inspiration

"It takes courage to grow up

and become who you really are."

E. E. Cummings

Tatting and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Kindness is always fashionable."

-Amelia E. Barr

Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

"They always say that time changes things,

but you actually have to change them yourself."

-Andy Warhol

Tatting and Weekend's Inspiration

"Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever."

-Mahatma Gandhi

Tatting and Friday's Inspiration

"My life should be unique; it should be

an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday's Inspiration and Tatting

"Only those who will risk going to far

can possibly find out how far one can go."

-T. S. Eliot

Wednesday's Inspiration and Tatting

"To be what we are, and to become what we are

capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Tuesday's Inspiration and Tatting

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Monday's Inspiration

"It doesn't hurt to be optimistic.

You can always cry later."

-Lucimar Santos Lima

Weekend's Inspiration and Tatting

"When your inner and outer energies

radiate in harmony, you are blessed

 and spiritually magnetic."

-Jasmine Heiler

Friday's Inspiration and Tatting

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient to living,

it's a way of looking at life through the

 wrong end of a telescope."

-Dr. Seuss

Thursday's Inspiration and Tatting

This is a doily that I designed 2 years ago. I am hoping that life will slow down a little when my partner and I retire soon so that I can finish my book of doilies. 

"You have to leave the city of your comfort

and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

What you'll discover will be wonderful.

What you'll discover is yourself."

-Alan Alda

Wednesday's Inspiration and Tatting

"How many cares one loses when one decides

not to be something but to be someone."

-Coco Chanel

Tuesday's Inspiration and Tatting

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary

to motivate us. They are essential

to really keep us alive."

-Robert H. Schuller

Back to Tatting and Monday's Inspiration

It has been awhile since I have shown any tatting pictures so for the next month or two I will be featuring pictures of some of my tatting.

This is a tiara that I made my daughter for her prom.

"You only live once, but if you

do it right, once is enough."

-Mae West

Weekend's Inspiration

The bride and groom. This wedding almost did not happen as Shannon's husband works in the military and was not given leave permission until noon on the day before the wedding. Then we had a major snow storm so his flight was cancelled. Poor Greg had to drive 24 hours straight and arrived at 2pm on Saturday for the 4:30 wedding. 

"Every day is an opportunity

to make a new happy ending."

-Anonymous

Friday's Inspiration and Wedding

My daughter having some fun before walking down the isle.

"Your soul is all that you possess.

Take it in hand and make something of it!"

-Martin H. Fischer

Thursday's Inspiration and Wedding

For those of you who do not know my daughter was going to be having her wedding at the end of march in Winnipeg, Manitoba which is a 2 hour car ride to the airport the 1 1/2 our flight and then a 3 hour car ride to her place which I could not do. So when I called her to say I would not be able to make it she hopped on a flight and arrived on January 16 and planned her whole wedding from scratch and it was held on February 9. I did not get the time I wanted to tat for her wedding so I made her this small tatted Celtic Heart for her something blue.

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination

of states we have to go through. Where people fail

is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.

This is a kind of death."

-Anais Nin

Wednesday's Inspiration and Wedding

Wedding Gown

"Clouds come floating into my life,

no longer to carry rain or usher storm,

but to add colour to my sunset sky."

-Rabindranath Tagore