Without Fail....

 Not sure why this always seems to happen, but it always does. Sigh.

Here -

- a book I really like and inside what I thought would be a fun tat, something with which to take a break from T.A.T. as I have been zooming along and need a wee break.

Also, I can't share any of my TAT experiences, but there is so much I have accomplished that I am fairly bursting to show someone,  for I have little that is available to post on the blog.

Really, this is the best course to learn tatting in a cumulative and progressive fashion. It is challenging, rewarding and frustrating all at once.  I am loving it.  But I must love it alone!

So.... a little something to take the edge off, thought I  - a small pattern with those clever onion-shaped thingies that I seem drawn
 to  - a  subject for a blog post tonignt.


WRONG.  All I managed was this:

Using bits of leftover HDT, I wound two shuttles and started to tat.  Very quickly I realized this was going to be a long drawn out affair... This is a fiddly pattern.  Pretty though.

Anon,

Do I Have A Year for the 25?

 This is #15 of the 25 Motif Challenge - IF the Challenge is not from January to January, but for twelve months. I am not sure how it works, but relying on something Chiclet said somewhere, I am assuming I can use my November 2009 to November 2010 time-line as my  Challenge time.  Is this correct?

 

At any rate, I made this in about an hour, yesterday,  for a friend I had lunch with today, who is so appreciative that it is a joy to give her a little motif!

There was thread on the shuttle left over from the wreath motif, and I surprised myself by tatting this up so very fast.  Wow - last year, at this time, I would never have believed that would be possible! I also seem to be using a lot of beads in my "me-time".

 I have another question.  I have a whole lot of Cébélia thread.  In the past few months, I have become very picky about the thread I use, and am wondering if I will ever touch this stuff again.  Anyone else in Tat-land know what I am talking about?  Whatever are you to do with a bin of thread you will never use up?
Anon,

What, No One Noticed?

I worked for hours - really, hours on the new look.  Changed my original, eight-month-old newbie, profile pic, updated the blog in all respects.  Such a lot of time - some would say - wasted!  Me, I love playing around with the computer when I have the time.  So, do you like it?  It matters not for I am pleased. : )

Now, I am going back to tat the rest of the gift motif!

Anon,

This One's For Me!

"Tatted Christmas Wreath" by Samantha Melnychuk

 ...and the one I am working on, exactly the same,  is a gift for someone I am trying to encourage to pick up the shuttle!

This is my all-time  favourite colour of HDT so far.  It is Karey Solomon's size #30 3 ply.  It is a bit soft, but works up well and is not bad as far as retro-tatting.  I love it.

Because I have finished half of the course for T.A.T.,( yah, HALF!) I thought I'd take some me-tat-time and so I did the socks for Mini-Boss and then this repeat of the wreath I did in yellow last month. Such fun!
Anon,