Summer readings... or tatting bookmarks?

Last few days have been still very hot here in Italy... but since yesterday evening we began breathing again! And this means my baby Giò can sleep a bit longer... so finally more tatting time!

Usually summer to me is the reading time, when I have time to relax, lay down and put my hands on all the books I can't afford in winter. During the year lots of books start piling up, waiting for the summer to hang around with me during holidays. But this time is different, this is my first no-reading summer - mostly in these last days in which Giò discovered how fun is to rip up everything paper she can find :)
So this year for me only very short books, like the one I'm reading now: Amelie Nothomb's "The life of hunger": have you ever read one of her books? To me she is just amazing... give it a try if you feel ready for great imagination and disdainful irony. But this post isn't supposed to be about a book, but about a bookmark!

Here there is the "Foldover Bookmark", a free pattern from Jon Yusoff blog, you can find the link to the pattern here.

It's tatted in Lizbeth #20 (my usual size), in one of my favorite variegated color, Vineyard Harvest.

As all others Jon's pattern I tatted, this is a sincere joy to tat, so if I can't have relaxing time reading, at least I can enjoy relaxing time tatting! I love above all all the sudden changes of directions, that anyway flow so smoothly!!! It's so harmonious!

Hope you like it!

So what can I say...
Just have a nice summer reading ;)

A tatted pendant... just for me!

Hi all!
even today I'm taking advantage of my baby's nap! She so cute when she's sleeping... I could spend hours staring at her!
I did'n think that starting blogging was so demanding in terms of time to dedicate... I really don't have so much time, and blogging means less time for crafting!!! But I will hold tight, I definitively and strongly desire to have my little sharing space, and really hope you can enjoy it with me!

What I'll show you here today is a tatting piece again from Jon Yusoff book "Tatting with rings".

I decided to use it as a pendant, I love it so much that I decided to keep it for myself.

You know what?

All jewelry I tatted so far became a gift for friends and relatives, I've never kept anything for myself... but this one I will keep!

But I have to confess... I've already made another one, exactly alike, for my sister-in-law!

Here is the "packaged version"... any suggestion for a different string?

Hope you all have a nice sunday, mine will continue on the beach with my daughter... cannot say relaxing but fun for sure!

Here we are...

Here we are... my first post!

I've been thinking about this blog for some months, but now I think I'm ready to try. This blog is supposed to be mainly about tatting lace, but maybe some other little handcraft works will find a place here!
I discovered tatting from my mother-in-law, she is from Sicily and she learned it as a family tradition... As soon as I've seen some blankets, bed sheets and tablecloths realized by her mother,  I've been enchanted by the shape of this lace creation, wonderful but still a bit too "classic" for me. But then, when I discovered all over the net that there are new ways of tatting, and how versatile and open to any kind of style it can be, I deeply fell in love with it!

I started with very simple projects, and I'm still a beginner so far, but I've been experimenting all around and I will be really happy to share with you the few things I've done.

I've realized some earrings, necklaces and pendant, and then during my pregnancy some decoration for my baby's bedding, but so far I've always worked on somebody else's pattern. The challenge for me will be to be able to design a new pattern by myself, not easy... so please be by my side!

Actually I'm working on a pattern from the book Tatting with rings by Jon Yusoff (I really love her pattern); here's my work in progress.