One World One Heart Update & Winner

I had a great time wandering around the world through the OWOH giveaway blogs - it is so much fun seeing what other people are doing - and being overawed by the creativity & talent of some people too!

I SO lucky too - I WON one of the giveaways (happy dance)- a wonderful set of charms from Diana. I can't wait for them to come - I can see awesome possibilities with tatting, maybe a necklace or earrings or both!

After putting all my entries (151) into the random number generator, the result was.........................................................................................................................................
Stanza Rae is my winner - Congratulations to her and I hope she enjoys her gift.

Happy tatting

One World One Heart

I am going to make a conscious effort to be more active here....... so to start - Let's go on a magical carpet ride..................



I first saw this great event last year but too late to participate. This year will be different as I made great friends last year and hope to make more this year. The idea of this event is to make friends with other people who blog so to enter my giveaway you must have an active blog. The magical carpet ride is because you never know where you may end up on your tour of the worlds blogs!

Who am I - Well I am a 4th generation tatter who is obsessed/passionate about my craft. I collect tatting shuttles and patterns particularly vintage ones. I dabble in designing but haven't made much public as yet as I am rarely happy with the end result! That's the problem with being a perfectionist! Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) I was brought up to believe that if you don't do it properly then there is not much point to doing it at all!!! You wouldn't believe the arguements this causes between DH & myself - he has the "doesn't matter how badly it's done as long as it is done" attitude!

Anyway to get back to the giveaway - my gift is a collection of tatting items - a shuttle, some thread (new & vintage), some beads (not in photo), a couple of vintage books and a surprise tatted item (as I haven't finished it yet).





You must have an active blog to enter. Please leave a comment on this post by midnight GMT February 14th with a means of me contacting you if you win. Happy Tatting & Good Luck.

What a lot of creative talented & generous people there are

I have spent a bit of time over the last few days wandering around the One World-One Heart Gypsy Caravan that both TattingChic & Marilee are very generously participating in. (I wish I was more organised and then I might have been able to participate in it as well, hopefully next year). I am just staggered by the generosity, talent and creativity there is - the only thing I would have thought to do with a rusty key was throw it away not use it for any type of craft purpose!

Back to tatting for a while. I have finally designed a pattern I am happy with - a little heart - so after writing it down I will possibly post it. I have doodled with designing for a few years but am usually not entirely happy with the end results so have never taken them any further - maybe I should try again? What do you think? I am going to do the thread exchange with the celtic group so may send a little heart as well!

I am nearly finished Jon's "Quantiesque snowflake" in variegated red and variegated green, but think I shouldn't have combined the two threads for the last round as it isn't quite right colourwise. We'll see when I finish it, I'll post a pic and see what you think. I have also been using my Silent Tatter shuttle from Roseground, which I must admit I find hard to use but love the feel of it in my hand - it is just a fraction too heavy (I keep dropping it) after the Aero Englands I love & use always. I have had it for about 3 years now and keep trying it every so often, but I suppose to be fair I don't use it enough to get used to it. It's funny how the shuttle you learn with remains your favourite no matter what - or so I've found anyway.

FIL got out of hospital on Thursday but for how long is anyone's guess. We were up to see him today and he does look better than he did but still terribly unwell. I just hope he doesn't suffer too long.