HEARTS!

I managed to get more of my living room floor opened up. What's left is mostly empty boxes so whenever my son brings up the Christmas storage containers, I can take the tree down. FINALLY!

Tonight I tatted one of my favorite hearts, Heart's Desire by Sue Fuller. The book is currently out of print but hopefully Sue will reprint it soon. There are many other patterns in the book worth having. I have tatted her Holiday Tree many many times as a card insert or small gift. It's SO EASY!

I tatted this in Altin Basak size 50, color #356. It's a sort of salmon or coral color. I scanned it several times but my camera brought out the color at its truest.

As you can see in this scan where I put it in a birthday card for my daughter-in-law, the scan makes the thread look much pinker. Another reason why I'm not fond of this scanner/printer.

These are from Birgit Phelps Peacock Heart pattern. When I tatted Irene's Heart of the Butterfly, I filled both shuttles nearly full and I didn't need all that thread so I tatted Birgit's heart and still had enough to tat another one plus some heart balloons. If I'd been thinking, I could have tatted the two together to make a basket, but it didn't occur to me at the time. Birgit has some clover earrings on her pattern page too if you are planning ahead for St. Paddy's Day.

I've currently visited over 800 of the 1049+ blogs in the One World One Heart blog event. Pshew...that is hard on the eyes! The ones with music annoy me because they always make my browser very slow. I open up 5 at a time and it's hard to find out which one (or two sometimes) has a player. If I can shut the player off, everything works normally. I understand the desire to have music on one's blog. I did too for awhile but it was more trouble that it was worth. I try not to have hardly any third party applications going on with my blog. The more you have, the more portals a virus can enter in through.

Well, I've already started another heart so I think I'll get back to it while there is still some evening left. My son went to friends' to watch the game which is perfect for me!