Bracelet almost done

Remember it from the last post?
Recovery phase for me now, I'm posting for the times I did not do it.

So, I added the beads: Check cristals, pearls and tiger's eye beads. Still not happy with the right side (down here). But it deffinitely looks different than the last post.

Hobby or profession?

To make from your hobby a profession or not? This would be a good question.
Of course you need to support your hobyy, every hobby crafter knows that after a certain point, you have to refund your hobby. And this one is sometimes quite expensive, think about the beaders, for instance. Of course you can make presents from your work, but the question remains: to what point will you do it?
I read an advice today: let your passion at this point, otherwise you will end up by working for orders with no fun.
Is it true? I am still at the point when I have a lot of fun working for my orders. And I am happy to have the means to continue my game with thread and pearls. I would like, of course, to get to the next level, but then comes marketing in the equation. It was never my strongest side because I am rather shy with what I can achieve. I am not pushy, sais my husband. So I try to push...
And I continue to play with my material. Even with the ends of thread. And it gives sometimes this:

  

The main object will be a bracelet. I just have to add the beads (tiger's eye) and that's it.

The original pattern is here, I just adapted it to 2-8-2-8 both sides (I want it straight) and I just hid the thread by Rocaille seed beads. 

Long, long break in this blog. But not in my tatting.
I learned to know a bit more about the Ankars technique. The purists of the tatting will honestly say: this is not tatting, the lace is not purely lace. I like both techniques, each of them has its own purpose, therefore I will continue.
I used to hate complicated forms in jewelry but since I discovered tatting and saw the jewelry designed by the Russian artists, every single time I see a pattern and nice beads my mind gets wild. Funny how this what one thinks about himself changes.
Back to the working stuff.
I have tatted a small thing, just to learn how to make the Ankars basic layered rings. I gave me a small base in white 12 Anchor wich waited for further idea more than 1 month in my working basket. Ok, not quite a basket, more like a candy box.
And one evening, I wanted to practice Ankars sewing part of the technique, just so see how it is to be done. It gave this:

Of course I was not happy with the result (so imperfect! you see the horrible gaps in the middle?) so this object got back into the box for 1 week.
And then I got the idea of the cristals. But still did not know what it would become: Brooch? Necklace? I decided for a pendant. A simple chain, the simpliest I had in the house:

And then I tatted a backside to give it a neat finish and voilà, this is my very first Ankars pendant I can really present to you:

This other necklace is also finished and ended at my sisters neck. She tried it on and she said it will stay there: So I have to make it once again, because it is already posted on my Etsy shop, by ALittleMarket and Artesanio: 

Christmas is coming...

Since some days I look at patterns for Christmas. It is quite fun to work on them and challenging. I still wonder how I can make them better. There must be a way.
I found some instructions, some patterns, ideas all over the net. It is incredible how much time one can spend just by browsing.
And this is the result...

This one is a small doily element.

This one is my very first mignonette tatted lace. 

They will be a nice variation for the ornements we have and they will make realy nice presents for our friends. 

And I keep tatting...

New technique

Long time nothing happened here, I know. I was in studying and practicing mood...
Since some time I was wandering how the Russian Tatting creators are doing the beauties they do. Mistery solved after a loooot of browsing, reading and sometimes starring at Russian alphabet. It is so nicely keept, this secret, but once you got the basics, sky is the limit.
Here I started: Karen Cabrera's YouTube lessons, Ankars basics.
Than the rest is hard to explain, because it toke me a while to find the trick. After this link given by Gabi Vallejo (I cannot thank her enough), all got really simple. In fact, is just carefully tatting with polyester thread (adding some beads as picots or joins) and then simply sewing the beads!
My first attempt was this bracelet:

Still a lot to improve.  Especially by finding the right thread, this Anchor 12 (perlé) is not doing it. 

This second attempt is better. Here you have it before the tatting turns into Ankars.

 I am far away from what Irina Astratenko, Alla Vizir (by far my favourite) or Rina Stepnaya are doing, but eventually I will get there.

I will keep trying, Just love tatting ang beads give some glam to it. And, most of all all the pieces are unique, therefore special.

Cambio de lengua o no?

Escribir en español o en inglés? Pienso desde un par de días en cambiar de idioma... No sé... los navegadores hoy en día proponen la traducción automática pero tengo experiencias cómicas con esta traducción automática. Voy a tratar de hacerlo en inglés, tal vez resulta más fácil.

Today I have contacted the Artisan Association of Tenerife, maybe they can give me hint how I can expose legally my work before I register as crafter... This would be the next step I have to take, but I would not do it before it turns that it is somehow lucrative.
I wait now for the answer... I see all the time all kind of crafter fairs here but they are not at my reach before I do this registration. This is, I guess, the dilemma of every one of us: start a small bussiness before or after you know that some success chances are in there.
Till then, I am still working. I learned something new... not a big deal, but the effect is quite nice. Thread: no. 12, Anchor, black.

I will insert some more pearls on the next ones, just to see what it gives. Later on, maybe tomorrow, I will post them finished.
I wonder how the mixture soutache and this pattern would look like. Got to test this one too.

Frivoliteando... gargantilla esta vez

No escribió últimamente... he descuidado mi blog. Pena. Tengo que aprender de esta falta.
No es que no tenia nada que decir... Pero fui muy liada con un pedido de sandalias denudas, ya las he mandada para Francia. A ver la reacción.
Ahora intento hacer una gargantilla con un elemento metálico color plata y perlas de rió.

Sigo pensando como lo voy a terminar: con una cadena de perlas o cadena metálica...  Lo de las perlas suena mejor.
Que os parece?