teapot – Wanda's Knotty Thoughts

Ramblings on Tatting Tea Tuesday

Believe it or not, I’ve actually finished the cross bookmark pattern. For once everything went smoothly while I diagrammed it, and it was even finished a few days ago. I’ve added the pattern to My Patterns page. Look for “April’s Cross Bookmark”.

I’ve started a couple of new projects this week but neither are to a point I want to share them yet. This is becoming a very busy month with several birthdays, Mother’s Day, and graduations to find gifts for. I actually found the cross bookmarks I had lost – I’d put them in a safer place, where I could find them. Sure. But they are found so I don’t have to rush so much for the graduations. The birthdays are something else. Not sure how those are going to go.

This morning while I drank my tea (Twinnings of London’s Pure Peppermint Herbal Tea) I was sitting in the front yard enjoying the day before it gets really hot and watching the barn swallows try to get me to leave. They have a nest on the side of the house and were trying to distract me from it. I wish I could have gotten a picture of them but they fly and dart around pretty fast. Also sharing my front yard today was a rather large turtle. He was going through the tall grass (we need to mow) and I almost didn’t see him. He was at least 12 inches long – around here, that’s a pretty big turtle. What he was doing so close to the house I don’t know. I went back a little later and he had moseyed on to where ever he was going. Hopefully out of the yard, as my husband is supposed to mow tonight.

As I don’t have much tatting done this week I thought I’d share with you an edging I did a long time ago from thread my got from my grandmother. She had some crocheting left on the ball, which will remain forever unfinished. But I made a tatted edging for a napkin with it, which will always make me think of her. She gave me the teapot when I was a little girl. It presided over many tea parties over the years. One day I hope to use it at a tea party with my granddaughter.

Tea parties with grandmother – happy memories in a teapot.

Tatting Tea Tuesday

This morning while checking my Facebook I found this page that had some lovely teapots! How appropriate for Tatting Tea Tuesday, don’t you think?

Teapot found on Facebook

I’ve had a very busy two weeks for various reasons, and my sister even more so. She has been planning and crafting for a craft show that was Saturday, June 8. Other things happened that put a crimp in her time for getting things ready, but with all the money and time she’d already invested she couldn’t not go. She said she would take some of my things if I wanted, even though I couldn’t go. It was an outside show held in Hutchinson, KS. They were only allowing one hour (!) of setup time before the show so we had to make the setup easy. My husband and I had lent her our pop-up and wind screen, which was definitely needed. I didn’t want her to have to work very hard on my stuff and I was having trouble coming up with a display that was easy for her to put out. I finally came up with this.

This is an upside-down cardboard box with the flaps taped open to make it taller. I stitched two lines of thread on each of two sides from which I hung my items. Then I carefully folded up the material and put it inside the box. It didn’t take much time to set it out!

Unfortunately the show did not go well. It was poorly planned and the location was awful. It was not in a place that encouraged or had much traffic that would be interested in crafty items. Then there was the weather – it was sunny and windy. I think the gusts were getting to about 45 mph. My sister said she and the other crafters spent most of their time trying to keep their items from blowing away or chasing those that did. Between the wind and lack of people all of the crafters packed up and left about noon instead of staying to 4:00 PM as planned. She was very disappointed. She is now trying to find a show that isn’t too far away and inside.

Of teapots and hearts

For Tatting Tea Tuesday today I’m enjoying my very first Tea-for-One teapot. My oldest daughter and her family gave it to me for my birthday along with a tin of Tazo Refresh Mint tea, which she knows I like.

She’s seen that I’ve started drinking more tea in the last few years and supports it by furnishing me tea once in awhile. This time it was with the whole teapot as well. She is so sweet! It’s it pretty? (I’m going to have to have a slightly larger space to place my tea cup by my tatting chair though – it’s a bit wider than the mugs I usually use.)

Speaking of sweet, Michelle over at Tela Magistrae has recently tatted a couple of my patterns, Christmas Snowflake 2010, which is on my pattern page, and then the heart that I posted about last week. She likes the pattern but not the result she got due to the colors she used (it looks white on my computer). Check it out, I think she did a great job. Thanks, Michelle!

As the pattern seems to be workable I’m sharing that with everyone now. Check it out on the Patterns page.

There are a couple other hearts that I have made over the last several years that I’m working on the patterns for. I hope to have them done very soon.

I invite you to have a cup of tea today for Tatting Tea Tuesday, it will warm your heart.

I’m a little teapot,

Short and stout,

Here is my handle,

Here is my spout,

When I get all steamed up,

Hear me shout,

Tip me up and pour me out!

By George Harold Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley

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