Ta-Da! My First Real Design

Designed in 

Sharon's Design-Tat Course,

without which 

I would never have done it!

 I am pretty proud of this.  Mind you, it does look like a whole bunch of other patterns I have seen in the past two years!  Makes me realize how very difficult it is to come up with a winner like 'Heart's Desire' or some of Mary Konior's or Iris Neibach's lovely creations.  I am in awe of some of the talent out there in Tat-land.

Speaking of Mary Konior; to see her design in a wonderful tatting presentation, visit Umi & Tsuru's blog today.  She has done something very special with an already beautiful and original design by MK.

Midnight WIth Minitats...

Response to this e-mail, from a tatting friend," B":

 Here is what she said:

...   I am working, at least trying to, front side/back side tatting. I have no problem with working the chains back side or "regular" front rings. To me, my problem is when I have to work a ring that is on the back side.

....   example, I am working on a mini tat pattern. I have to make a ring with shuttle 2 . A back side tatted ring. When I close it does not look right. The last stitch, to me, turns in. That does not like right! So my question is please do you have any suggestions on how that could look neater?

......the pattern is on page 40 mini tat # 53. I will not tell you how many times I have redone it. I am sure you can take a guess. I do have a nice pile of used thread...

She does have a good sense of humour, even if she is not pleased with hr motif!

As promised, I tatted the pattern and am taking this dilemma to tat-ology. 

The last stitch is a bit shallower than the others, but it doesn't bother me. This smaller stitch might be what is annoying "B",  however.

I think I remember The Closet Tatter  talking about this a while back, discussing the merits of whether to post or not to post. There you have it.

Any suggestions for "B" about this from Tat-land?

 Cluny Update

 I am seeing improvement!

Help from my very own

Design Fan Club

Design is not finished 

but is finally in the works...

The doodled designs were far too complicated for a novice, so I have scaled back to what I can handle;   this is what I have been able to accomplish so far.  I am beginning the second edition.  This one is full of cuts, stops and starts, so is very wonky.

It is a beginning....

Hair-Pulling Design Woes

 This is supposed to be fun!

 I need a new personality.

Tatctful Tat-land

 First,

The Cluny:

the improved

midnight-tat version,

(still a long way to go!)

 Oh yes, you are all very polite.  

Much too polite to alert me to this:

I could not let it rest.  I thought I was finished when I re-tatted the cord for  the pink  dragon. Then I noticed the photograph of the five cords and was stunned to see that twisted spiral in the green cord. No way I could leave that!

Whew! 
Finally REALLY finished.

While I was winding the shuttle, I noticed once again the quality of the Lizbeth.

Promise - I will not rant about it, but will show you a photo that I took of some regular green "normal thread,"  pictured above the thread from a ball of Lizbeth green that I used for the Grahamy Dragon.  You can form your own opinions.  I must be one of the few who received so much of this bad batch in so MANY colours!