Tatting, TAST & Treasures

As I've challenged myself to concentrate on my embroidery and CQing this year, I realize I've been missing  my tatting and painting.
I found a portion of a book ( pages 5-32) in the second -hand shop filled with edgings: crocheted, knitted, and tatted edgings. I tested this one in Lady Shuttlemaker's 'Victorian Valentine' thread, size 20.

Called edging A-648, it measures 1" deep.
I think it will be perfect for a seam treatment on a future CQ!

TAST this week is a catch-up week, so I stitched the whipped wheel I missed while I was sick.
I decided to have a bit of fun, and added stem stitch, french knots, and straight stitch to my whipped wheel garden.
I made some whipped wheel and reverse whipped wheel flowers.

Rachel, from The Piney Woods Tatter, sent me some treasures: 3 skeins of thread, pearls, an assortment of buttons, green beads, and a gorgeous pendant she tatted.
I know I'll have lots of fun using these! You know I love greens, so this package was perfect.
Thank you so much, Rachel!
You can see Rachel's tatting on her blog.

Hearing the small roar of falling water, I went for a walk up to the beaver pond.
Water has been trickling from the pond, over rocks and boulders, down the rocky hill, pooling in rock depressions, and gurgling over stones, twigs, and pebbles.

 It cascades downhill from the beaver pond, meandering here over the ground, and there beneath the clump of trees, around the rock hill, and down, down  to flow into the lake in the bay creating muddy splodges of colour.

Here, the ducks gather to feed on the grasses fed by the silt, the blue heron stands frozen, searching the waters below for a frog or two, and, the beavers emerge from the creek to patrol the lake.

The beaver pond shallows

the beaver pond, with the dam on the left.

I like the way the clouds and sky are reflected in the water.







I hope you're having blue skies today.

Thanks for visiting.
Hugs from Suz