Slow and Steady...

Slow Stitching

It doesn't look like much and I do wish it were all red - a gorgeous shade in #40 Lizbeth that I have not used before, - but this is for someone who ordered red and white. I added beads to make it less, hmmm, red and white!

Slowing down has really made a huge difference in the quality of my tatting; I wish you could feel how sturdy this motif is.  Suddenly, the change in tension is remarkable.

They  - whoever 'they' are -  say that 'a rest is as good as a change,' and I see the validity in this aphorism as I spend a little less time with the shuttles.

Tangling has occupied the majority of minutes in the past week and this has affected my tatting, all to the good.  There is a valuable lesson to be learned here for the obsessed and addicted portions of my personality!

UPDATE ON T.I.A.S.

Can I Brag?

Seriously.  Just when I thought my tatting would suffer a great loss because of my obsession at the moment with 'foxtanlges', my beginner zentangle blog, (shameless plug here!) I finished this.  I am really proud of the stitching; I un-picked very large parts of it about five times to get it corrected.

Worth it big time.

#61-100 Motif Challenge

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Changing the subject completely, can I show you something I rescued yesterday? Somebody threw the black book holders in the garbage. They were like new, and so useful, so there they are holding a lot of tatting books that had a propensity to jump right off the rickety bookcase!

For years, I have been on the hunt for a bookcase that has been left by the side of the road, but have never seen a good one or one that was the right dimensions.  I have mirrors and chairs though! 

The blue above the bookcase is a case in point - a lovely old wooden framed mirror I found years ago tossed out in the garbage. I painted it and it hangs over the books.

Cutting My Losses

Karey Solomon's HDT

I have made so many mistakes with this motif - Frivole's 'Stellar,' that I cannot in all good faith continue.  It was just too messed up.  So, I have started it again in another thread - one colour, which will help.

The actual stitches are good now.  Also, I am getting more and more exacting, which is good, because the results are better, but I then I tat a lot more slowly  and have a lot less quantity.

Here is the new one. See what I mean?

T.I.A.S.

T.I.A.S. is fun!  I am so glad I am participating this year.  Not what I thought it would be at all. I had to get over my "Bah Humbug" mentality (yet again!) to finally join up.

It is looking a lot like a goat. I told Jane I thought it looked like a lamb and then remembered that lambs do not have horns... So much for animal husbandry...