Putting a New Spin on my Learning: After the Wheel

I have not had any time to look over the newest reading material, Tatting The GR-8. (whatever happened to my obsession with "regular" books - you know, fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, mystery, and so forth?)

This morning, I managed to get the first bit of the book about the SCMR read, grabbed a shuttle, and completed the first pattern. It is to be partly finger tatted and I had a perplexing half hour trying to figure out how to do this WITH a shuttle. Still, I cannot figure it out. ( I feel sooo stupid!) The butterfly came out all right anyway, despite my lack or spatial reasoning!

I haven't the stomach for television, so I tend to listen to a lot of audio books, which I download from the library. I have discovered a lot of great literature this way. Probably I would never have read a lot of this stuff if I had not been looking at material that is available for downloading.

Again, the Internet has influenced my life beyond belief.

Does anyone else out there in Tat-land have this audio-habit?

Fox ~ Aspiring Adept of TATROMANCY (magical meanderings with rings, chains and picots)~

Finished and Enough!

SPINNING WHEEL GLASS MAT
pattern by MARY KONIOR

Thread #20 LadyShuttleMaker HDT - Apricot Mousse
(the real colour is more like this type than the scan)

Fox ~ Aspiring Adept of TATROMANCY (magical meanderings with rings, chains and picots)~

Counting My Blessings

I KNOW I am very lucky.

I do not have to worry about the basics - the very basics; food, shelter, clothing. I live simply, but I live well and according to my own life choices. I live in a wealthy country, one of the safest in the entire world, that offers medical care to all. I enjoy freedom unknown to countless others.

My environment is clean by comparison to smog-ridden cities elsewhere. Water and land are in abundance in my corner of our world. I count my blessings for these things and so, so many others every day.

In spite of all this, I tremble and quake.......

WILL I HAVE ENOUGH THREAD?

Fox ~ Aspiring Adept of TATROMANCY (magical meanderings with rings, chains and picots)~

Table of Contents - Tatting With Beads

Some of you left comments yesterday asking what was in this new book that I am intrigued with. Here is the TABLE OF CONTENTS to TATTING WITH BEADS.

Thanks to TattingChic, I have been given a heads up - I might end up with a UFO, if I got into this book as a 'more fun project'. : )

FEAR NOT!

I am still tatting away on the Spinning Wheel Grass Mat and will post it shortly! I am determined to not attempt anything new till it's finished!