Sewicked’s crafty look at my life

I did it! I finished the edging. It’s even sewn onto the apron. I started sewing it Tuesday night & realized, when I got the gathered portion of the apron, that I should open the gathers, sew on the edging & gather it again.

That meant that I was about 6" short on the edging. So I tatted a bit more. Sewed the edging more. Measured how much I lacked & tatted more. Sewed some more; measured, tatted again, ran out of thread, joined, sewed and tatted and sewed. Finally it was done.

And it matches the apron & shows up nicely against the dress.

After a week or so break, I’ve resumed work on my ecru edging (DMC perle 12).  I have just short of 3 feet completed.

I need perhaps as much as 2 feet more, maybe. I’ll have to measure it again against the apron. 

The picture above is of the edging as I started it. It’s a simple one-shuttle pattern from Rebecca Jones’ book: The Complete Book of Tatting.

I put little one-ring flowers on the cards to my aunts, great-aunts & niece. I put a butterfly with beads on the tail on the card to my namesake. The first 8 cards all had these pink flowers that the one-ring flowers fitted over very nicely (an accent on the larger flower), except the two last one got a white/silver flower off to the side instead. My namesake’s card had a large red poppy, so I glued a butterfly to one side. I used post-it style glue so they’ll come off.