Day 4 of the kangaroo

Now don't laugh. NO, I asked you not to yesterday too! I shall throw this out of the window if I hear you laugh again! I didn't do much more of the first sample yesterday - for obvious reasons!!! The head is the bit at the top right hand corner. I'd lost interest by the time I got there and also had a few too many interruptions along the way. That's the picture on the left dealt with!!
Now for the one on the right. As you can see - I've started again. This time the tail and back leg are a lot, lot better. I started on the second back leg but that's going to be taken undone tonight as I'm not the least bit happy with it. I'm trying to think all the time about how this would look in 'kangaroo colours' and not the blue and yellow I'm using.

Day 3 of the kangaroooo

Now I beg you not to laugh at last night's attempt. Honestly I'm still making a kangaroo. Sometimes I know it stretches the imagination!!! I've decided to still 'go with the flow' but I've stopped writing down what I'm doing as it will all have to be changed.
OK, let me try and analyse this.
Main leg is OK - just needs tidying up.
The tail is not long enough and is at a funny angle - again it's almost there.
The back at the top of the leg is sagging. Needs a fair bit of attention.
Now the other leg is - well, in the wrong place but I feel that it will be just another matter of playing with it.
The joey (looks like an alien at the moment) is horrid!!.
The arms are sort of OK but the shoulder etc isn't right. I started the face but it really was too late in the evening.
By the way, that's only half a face there!!!
The way the kangaroo is 'hunched over' will correct itself in the final chain from the head to the shoulder - least it SHOULD!!!

Kangaroo!

Well, actually, no kangaroo. Didn't pick up a shuttle all day. Life got in the way!!

Day 2 of the kangarooooooo

After yesterday's attempt I decided to start again. I find this nearly always happens with me! I drew the tail again with two alternative ways of working it.

When I finally settled down to try it out last night I quickly decided that the drawing on the left was a 'no go'. Can't say why but it felt wrong. I went with the drawing on the right. You will see from the tatted sample below that this is fairly good for a first attempt. I then went on round to complete the back of the leg (the one nearest the tail) and the other leg too. I think the first leg needs 'fattening up' and the tail needs to be a tad longer. The other leg needs more work but I think it only needs 'tying in' to the previous one with a picot. I've started on the joey too but this will have to be done again - at the moment it looks rather like one of those dreadful things whicih comes out of somebody's stomach in those awful horror movies. Do I feel another 'start again' coming over me? So far, though, so good. It looks quite like a kangaroo and it's still on the way to being achieved in one 'round'.

Tatting a kangaroo - day 1

I've started a kangaroo!! I'm not sure who originally asked for this but the idea is now rapidly developing in the aged brain!!!
I'd like to do this for all the friends I've got in Australia. Particularly the 'two aussie twits' (one of them is Julie Patterson who makes me laugh so much and who's path I seem to stumble happily into regularly). Also there's her friend Toni Storer and then Omar Bentley plus, of course, Judith Connors. Forgive me for anybody 'down under' that I've forgotten but my geography and memory are pants!!!
First of all I drew the 'prospective' pattern with Serif DrawPlus. Then I started tatting.
I usually find that my first attempt is always depressing and, as usual, this time has proved to be no exception!! The tatted piece below, I'd better explain, is a leg and a tail as you might not recognise it!! I think that block tatting the tail is just toooooo time consuming. The leg - well that's not right either but I've thought of a way round tat problem!! NO, not amputation!!!
So, back to drawing a new tail. Show you more tomorrow!!!

'Glam' earrings!

Now I don't 'do' glam (glamorous) as anybody who knows me will tell you!!! I'm strictly a jeans and t-shirt sort of person and always have been. BUT for some reason I do allow myself 'glam' earwigs!! This is the last in this session of making earrings. Again if anybody wants this pattern, just shout!!

Ah, just before I go - a warning. The design 'bug' has bitten again. Do watch this space!!!

New earrings

These earrings are again based (even more roughly!) on the 3D ones on my site. This time, however, I've added a ring on the chain and a large beaded picot at the bottom. I've actually written this down as I made it which surprised me no end!! As it's a simple derivative of a very basic idea (just rings and chains) I'm not going to add it to my pattern pages. However if anybody would like the notes on this please do email me. I will send it as a Word document. I think I'll make some more in Christmassy colours!!