Tatting Butterfly earrings - 1
Tatted butterflies make wonderful earrings.
I fell in love with Kreinik’s Metallic 1/8″ ribbon thread and wanted to tat some butterflies with it:
There’s 5 meters on the spool, but I didn’t know if that would be enough to tat 2 butterflies.
So, I decided to do an experiment.
I wound 5 m of Rainbow Hemp Beading Twine from Jolly store onto my tatting shuttle and tatted these Rainbow Butterflies:
Poifeck!
You can get a pair of earrings with less than 5 m!
So, I went ahead and wrapped my shuttle with the spool of
Kreinik Metallics #209C 1/8″ Ribbon yarn
and it tatted up BEAUTIFULLY!
I am delighted with them.
I tatted them while blissing out to the music in the bistro where my husband’s jazz trio was playing.
People kept coming up to me to ask what I was doing and to admire the thread.
Don’t tat in public if you are shy!
People are intrigued by it and want to know what on earth you are doing.
I am still waiting for the little Flip video camera to arrive (it’s almost TWO months now that I have been waiting for it!).
When it gets here, I’ll do a video tutorial on how to tat these incredibly easy, but oh so gorgeous, earrings.
And, perhaps, I should make a pair to give away in a series of ‘Yay, I’ve been writing Hankering for Yarn for more than 2 years now’ celebratory give aways next week….
Whaddya think?
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12 opinions for Tatting Butterfly earrings - 1
Peggy
Jul 23, 2008 at 8:59 pm
“Don’t tat in public if you are shy!”
LOL. I guess so. Of course I get asked all kinds of weird questions by people who don’t know me in stores, mostly where did I get my reusable shopping bags. And “what’s that?” — if I have my SIGG water bottle with me. : )
Noreen
Jul 23, 2008 at 9:56 pm
And, don’t do the happy dance in public, either! ROTFLOL!
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Eileen
Jul 25, 2008 at 9:09 am
I love it - Don’t tat in public if you are shy! I can’t wait to see the video on how to tat these cute earrings. I’ll just be sure not to do it in public
Noreen
Jul 25, 2008 at 10:22 am
Thanks so much, Eileen!
We’re just wrestling with some wonky computer stuff, then we’re going to build a jig to hold the camera…. then….. I’ll start shooting ‘real’ videos.
So far, it’s been: shoot…..oh phoo…. delete…… shoot….. oops….. delete… etc….
then I finally got a decent one and it was upside down. erg.
Hence the need for a jig…..
LOL!
Rayann
Jul 25, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Noreen
I think it would be terrific if you could put up some videos of tatting. I’ve been trying to learn, and the only video on line I found was very hard to see. (To small) Your earrings are terrific.
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Heather
Jul 26, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Oooh aren’t they sweet? I just love that you aren’t shy to tat in public. I’ve never tried tatting, yet, but don’t mind knitting, when I have the mood on, in public. ;-)
Noreen
Jul 27, 2008 at 9:10 am
Thanks, Heather! I think that it is good to do our fiber arts in public, as it inspires other people to pick up their needles, hooks and shuttles and find fibrebliss, too! :o)
Noreen
Jul 27, 2008 at 9:11 am
Hi Rayann
We are in the middle of ‘computer stuff’ (erk) and (eek) right now, but I PROMISE! I am going to be getting tatting videos up ASAP :o)
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