Fodder For A Therapist

Can you believe I was practicing this join on sewing thread? And the clunies?  And the tiny, eentsy, weentsy,  rolled ring that you cannot see with the naked eye? I need more help than the problem evident in the photo.

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My sister asked for some remnants for a project she is working on.  I am delighted to send her a bunch of tatting, as I am drowning in motifs that I have made.

Now I always carry a bunch of motifs  to give away to interested strangers, (I gave one out last week to the owner of a shop who was delighted) but I have WAY to many for the limited opportunities I have to chat about tatting to the interested public!

I wonder what she has in mind for these pretties. 

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Lastly, I had a brainwave: Mom does not want  a birthday gift . Nothing, she says.  Just a card.  Not even flowers  -  her cat, Archie, eats them.

So, I thought that if I gave her her own hankie that is over 65 years old, but tatted a border around it, it wouldn't really be a present as it is already hers!  

 
She is not that interested in tatting - truth is she couldn't care less, but she could tuck this in her purse, especially in the summer for those moments when the humidity is overpowering.  What do you think?

I am playing with colour and debating whether to just go with white with a fancy, Iris Niebach  style edging or a more subdued pattern, tatted with a variegated HDT.  

The above thread is Karey Solomon's.  I have been saving it for over a year and it is one of my favourites.  The lovely colours do not show very well on the screen. Ah, the possibilities!

Motif is Yellow...Air is Blue!

Can You Guess What This Is?

 

Tatting this motif, I have been stuck on blipless joins and Catherine Wheel joins.  

I have been successful.  There are no blips.  No coloured bits where they should not be.  I am now very tired.  I may be now bald.  Frustrated beyond belief, I have spent  HOURS  un-tatting, since I seem to have forgotten EVERYTHING I KNOW!

What is crazy about all this is that I have been practising these methods where there is only one colour.  I was determined to learn the tricks and there was only one little part of the pattern where it counted for real.   Yes,  pig-headed Fox had to learn it RIGHT NOW,  using yellow thread everywhere....

Driven to searching YouTube for answers and  looking at videos on 'How-To', in my travels I stumbled onto a site by Karen. Just look at  those tatting nails!

This is a very informative place to look up a tons of tatting techniques.  She is very, very  good - at least for me.  Everyone has different learning methodology requirements.  Especially those of us who are dyslexic.  This site I like a lot!

However - no blipless joins on Karen's blog.  So, I plodded once again  - the thousandth time, through Jane's instructions and finally, FINALLY I got it!  Again.  I hope it is firmly implanted in my brain this time.

You know, they say,  if you throw enough of it at the wall, some of it will stick....

I Might Be A Blockhead...

 #11 Motif Challenge

Pattern from Kaye B. Judt's Oh My Stars!  

Oh yes. Margaret - this is your thread!  Altin Basak #50

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Check This Out!
Mini-Boss is now a ONE Year Old!

(Look at the SOCKS!)

Capital Clunies!

#9 Motif Challenge

Elisa's cluny pattern again, and yet again:

#9 Motif Challenge

 

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Inspired by Diane, who is tatting lots of pretties from Kaye B. Judt's Oh My Stars!, I decided to practice a few things from the book and began the process of review with this one:

 #10 Motif Challenge

This is the first attempt, so I am pretty pleased with myself.  It came out better than I expected it would, though there are a lot of stops and starts here and places where I had to cut out bits entirely!  Ah, the good with the bad, right?

There is a point in the pattern where it says:

L.J to the p of previous Ch, 3ds

Well, I kept seeing that what I was doing was wrong, wrong WRONG and I couldn't figure out why.  This at about midnight, when I badly wanted to go to sleep, but NOT before I figured out exactly where Kaye had made a dreadful mistake in the pattern!

Finally I saw what I was doing (after about four tries!).  I was tatting this:

L.J to the p of previous Ch, Ch 3ds

(I do apologize, Kaye!)

One of these days, I will learn to read the pattern as it is written!