Delaying my Final Essay

In delaying my last essay this semester I happened to run across a give away by Tatted Treasures for 13 balls of Lizbeth thread.  I've been tuning in here and there and using some of the great tutorials.  I need to start posting more but school keeps me away.  What is neat though is my job at a bead store.  I just talked my manager into letting me teach a tatting class.  Now we are getting supplies.  I am so excited.  Now I need to make up some patterns...

 Here is some beading I'm learning

A quick "do-dad"

A Few Pieces of Tatting

 

Here are some pieces of my tatting work, I don't remember when I did most of them.  I was inspired to make many of these by other artists.  I can't remember where they all came from though. 

This was a commission piece for mother's day for one of my neighbors.

A Pendant and Earrings.  (I am one of those rare women in this world who still doesn't have her ears pierced.)

This one came out of a book Tatting Jewelry.

This one I can't remember right now...

I was trying to tat a pansy, or some such similar flower.  The long skinny piece is bead crochet.

These are just a few of my pieces.  I recently put them on my computer because I was using them in a portfolio for an interview.  I got the job, hopefully I'll be bringing tatting to the teaching table.