Whats new for 2013?

So in the first week of december I had a market stall in Daylesford (for any crafters reading this that intend to  go to daylesford to sell their pretty things- DONT.  People at this market would rather by dusty crap than a handcrafted piece of gold)  I didn't do as well as I would have liked but never mind.  In october and november I put my head down and my bum up working away on things to put at my market stall because heres me thinking I wouldnt have enough things for people to look at.  Anyway I made alot of oya lace, which some of you can find on my Etsy store, and some you will see here first and then on my Etsy store in the near future...So here they are:

Bouquet of oya lace flowers

Purple bouquet of Oya lace flowers

Purple Bouquet of Oya lace flowers

Bouquet of Oya lace Flowers

Bouquet of Oya lace Flowers

Bouquet of Oya lace Flowers

Tatted Turkish Towel Edging

Tatted Turkish Towel Edging

Tatted Turkish Towel Edging

All bouquets together!

Heres the beginning of my mixed tatted/oya lace table topper

Turkish Tatted Towel Edging

All Bagged and labled!

Yasemin Oyasi, Boncuklu Halay

Assorted bead oyas

This flower is called muhur

Assorted Oya Lace Flowers

Needle/Shuttle Oya- The next scarf!

Newest oya scarf I've been working on.  This time I decided to use tatted motifs as flowers.  I think theres around 20 in total, and they are attached to the needle oya.  My next post will be the finished product :)

I figured it out!!

I'm  actually really really REALLY proud of myself.  I've been trying to figure out how to do this motif for about a year and a half after I found that my partners mother had left a half done one here when she went back to Turkey (which you can see in one of my earlier posts.)  Its the "fan" motif, done with 2 colours a hair pin that I made myself and a size .7mm crochet hook.  If you're wondering how I made a hair pin myself, I just used a metal coat hanger.  I eventually realised why my previous attempts had failed and thats because I was doing it upside down *smacks forehead*

I was sort of mucking around this week with some tatting and bead crochet, but I'll probably continue with the bead crochet as its already nearly a metre long, and I have a yellow black white and green scarf that I can attach it to.  The motif is called "ojeli parmak" and "parmak" means "finger" and the motif does kind of look like fingers with nail polish on them!  Very easy to whip up, its a variation of the "goose eye" which is even simpler!  The tatted edging is called "pirpirim" which is one of my favourite greens- pursulane, very easy to whip up aswel as theres no chains, making this edging simple and suited for a beginner.

Thanks for taking a look!  Have a great day!

Tatted Oya Examples

So its not often you find many examples of Tatted Oya, it seems that crochet and needle are more popular.  So here are some examples I'm offering for you to have a look at!  Enjoy. xx

Mix tatting/crochet



Easy one shuttle technique with crochet



Easy one shuttle technique

Towel Edgings

Towel Edging

Towel Edging

Towel Edging

Towel Edging

Easy Chain & Picot technique

Lots of work!

Mix Tatting & Crochet

This is the same design as before, only with a different colour

Improvisation on the image above

My Favourite!

Just a few tatting patterns..