Tatted Dragonfly earrings
July 27, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under jewelry, tatting
The dragonflies have been dancing and flitting about lately, and seeing them has finally made something click for me….
I’ve been playing around with designing a tatted dragonfly for years, and have never been satisfied with what I have come up with.
BUT… when we were walking the dogs this morning, it struck me that I have been trying to do an accurate representation (in tatting) of still photographs of dragonflies.
What really clicked for me was that I realized that I wanted a simple image of the dragonflies in motion. I thought about what we see when a dragonfly zooms past us:
The oversize head, the streamline zip of the body and flashing wings.
Ah! I’ve been putting waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much into the dragonflies for them to be workable as earrings. So, I simplified the design right down to match my ‘aha’ moment!
Since I have been test tatting my new Little Bird tatting shuttles, I decided to try my new dragonfly design with the new shuttles…….
And, here’s the result:
I am still testing the pattern and fine tuning it. But, it’s close to what I had hoped for.
And, I am going to give this pair of earrings away!
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Those are very cute! I have tatted some dragonfly earrings from DS9 desiigns, but they had beads for the wings. You did a great job on the wings! They look really cute.
They are darling! I agree, the wings are terrific.
I love your work. Please enter me in contest! Eileene
Thanks so much, tattingchic!
I am still playing with my design, but I am happy about my progress so far!
Yes, I did enter the contest. I commented under the lady hoare style shuttle. BTW are you opening an etsy shop for your bird shuttles? Where can we buy them?
Love these earrings! I’d like to know where to get your little bird shuttles too!
Just beautiful! I really need to learn how to tat.
Thank you so much, Cecilia! I am definitely doing the skippetty hop happy dance here!
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Thank you so much!
To order, it’s just through emails right now, as I am racing like a wabbit to get my deadlines met on my new book, so I haven’t had time to get the Little Bird Tatting shuttles up on my website.
The Little Bird Tatting Shuttles are $19.95 + $1 = $20.95 shipping Cdn, as I am in Canada.
If this is acceptable to you, please let me know which Little Bird you want, see:
http://www.hankeringforyarn.com/fine-tuning-the-little-bird-tatting-shuttle
tell me what your paypal addy is so I can send the request to them, and I can send it and ship asap.
Thanks so much!
I love the little birds. I’ve gotta have one of these ,someday. Just can’t afford it now. They sure are cute,Great Job. Eileene
What beautiful lil earrings!!! Please enter me in the contest as well!
These earrings are just tooooooooooooocute