Tatting Jewelery - Corina Meyfeldt Earrings 2025

Dear Gentle Reader, 

Tatting is one of the oldest forms of lace making. It can come in many different shapes and forms. Jewellery is one of those tatted articles that are loved by everyone. Who doesn't love dainty, lacy, beaded jewelry? Right??!! ..... Right!!!! 😜😁

All through my tatting adventures (and through the tatting classes I'm signed up for 😜) I came across 2 super cute tatted earring patterns. Grew to love them both. These cute patterns belong to the wonderful tatter and designer called Corina Meyfeldt. She has lots of amazing patterns. 

On her blog Corina says about the "Wave" that  "the pattern is simple, so simple that is is boring. But do not rush while working it. Simple things can punish pretty hard the impatient hand." and goodness me, she was right. Blink and ops Murphy steps in and ruins your project 😜

There's another of her pattern's called "Simple RoR Earrings".  I just adore these 2 patterns. I made loads of each , different colors, different beads. I love these 2 patterns, I can see myself making even more of each one😜

Both are made of rings, there are certain types of joins, and delicious beads and only 1 shuttle or 1 needle.  Both contain techniques that can be challenging, but not impossible to do nor complicated, with a little bit of practice they are all doable. Just remember Corina's words and have as much fun tatting these as I am having. 

Both patterns can be found on her blog here. or on The Online Tatting Class website pattern collection  here and here. , or on The Online Tatting Class YouTube channel here and here.

All the best, 

Happy Tatting 

Annamaria 

My Garden - May 2025

Dear Gentle Reader,

May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. May (in Latin, Maius) was named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May. 

Wherever I look in my garden everywhere everything is blooming, fruit are forming, plants are growing. My white and pink Clematis Montana is intertwined with the sweet smelling Honeysuckle. Eventually the trio will cover the shed and offer the wildlife a safe haven. Currants, Gooseberries laden with fruit. Raspberries and blackberries soon will open their blooms too. 

The Tamarix is full of flowers too and the Comfrey is open self-service for bumble bees, bees and other polinators that can reach the treasure within. Some bumble bees have long feeding tubes, those have no problems going deep into the flower to find the nectar, but some have short ones, and these are cheeky, because they poke a little hole at the neck of the flower just big enough to reach in and steal the precious dew. Survival skills, 10 out of 10 there. 

Am I seeing things? This is my Clematis "Pixie" who thinks it's an alpaca standing tall in the "wild garden" 😜 and I didn't even try to train the new shoots to look like that at all🤷‍♀️ but I'm glad the way it looks like, and it was absolutely covered with pale lime green flowers. 

Not long now and I'll be tasting the 1st strawberry grown in my big greenhouse in a hanging basket. The grape berries are forming now and from now in they'll get fatter and fatter until ripen. My lower raised bed starts looking like a producing spot with herbs (vinter savory, sage and rocket), lettuce, green kale, stem celery, cauliflowers, spinach and beetroot. These veggies all like lettuce which acts like a good companion plant, and at some point they'll all benefit from eachother. Onion sets, garlic and the radishes are coming up nicely too. 

More stars stepping in the podium today, Viburnum "Snowball" offers now a great display with its snowball like white flowerheads, which will turn into fruit for the birds after thepollination is done. Allium stand tall with their white mop heads, in competition with the blue Kamasias. The dog rose isn't shy at all either, opening its single flowers rich in polen for polinators and pollen lovers. These flowers will turn into Vit C rich fruit, called rosehips that will make a great tea during winter or jam. However mind those pesky thorns, not fun picking them though, but worths every band-aid 😜 The next competitor is the Sweet Rocket.... It is really sweet smelling wonderful flower. In my garden there every single plant, bush and tree is a winner, because all serve a purpose. 

All the best until next time

Anna