The little one's pretties...

Well...I simply haven't gotten time to tat much of anything at all since Wednesday.  My daughter had a Birthday party on Saturday...she turned 12 right before Christmas.  The house had to be cleaned before the party, a cake baked, and little pizza crusts made for them to top with toppings of their choice.  Crafts had to be planned and supplies purchased (yeah, trips to the craft stores!) for the girls at the party.   The dryer decided it was done after 12 years right about then as well, so I've been hanging the wash out and trying to decide what kind of a new machine is in order.  Oh, and there was a girl scout meeting with cookie sales to discuss (I'm the leader) and a 4-H meeting (also one of the leaders) in there somewhere this weekend as well. 

Hence, a severe lack of crafting time for me...one little pair of tatted hair clips is it for the tatting over the past 3 days!

I did think you all might like to see the little Rosie Posie with her pretties though...so here she is...

I think these are my favorite yet.  The bottom rosette is R: 6-6-1--1-6-6, then 3 rings R: 6+6-1--1-6-6, finally R: 6+6-1--1-6+6 to the first ring.  The top 3 rings are simply 6-6 each.  It creates a pretty little floral clip for a pretty little girl...

Isn't she sweet when she's asleep...not nearly as impy as in these ones...

But, she is wearing a tatted clip there too...and yes, there is tatting on that shirt.  That little shirt was the second bit of tatting I ever completed last February...here is a picture of it when it was new, not in the best of shape now after many many washes!  Not that it was perfect new either as I had just begun...

...she still loves that shirt!!!  Makes it all worth it when they love something you make! 

I bought a few more of these shirts recently to add some tatting to...a few of Mary Konior's edgings that I just want to try out and the 6 to 8 inches needed for one of these shirts is very manageable!

Well...I started out to show you Josie's tatted pretties, I quess you've gotten to see two varieties now.  She calls them all her pretties and wants more to wear always.  I think it's safe to say that little girls need tatting (like we "need" more thread)!  I personally LOVED it when Grandma would add tatting to my Christmas Eve nightgowns or when she gave a heart motif to Mom to embellish our Valentines Day dresses...they might mush it and stretch it and it'll need washing many times in a machine no less...it might not stay perfect, but tatting is far better loved by little hands than tucked away! Aren't you convinced?