New Year Reflections

My Musings

My Progress

My Little Treat

My First Tatting 

from Snowy’s Book 

My Next Venture with 

Edwige Renaudin Begun

From My Fabulous Friend...

...Snowy.

In the mail - a huge package that was really heavy. 

I was mystified as I could not figure out what I had ordered. 

Imagine my surprise when I opened that airmail package and saw this...

Can you imagine?

I have lusted after this book for a long time and now I have 1,000 photographs to ogle! Ohh, I am one lucky tatter! 

I have already opened the book and randomly chosen a little motif to take the edge off the numerous Honey Napkin repeats I have endured today. Blessed relief!

Snowy also included three tiny tatted motifs, which she says I can pass along if I want. No way! They are an inspiration and a joy to behold and I am keeping them all for myself! You can easily see why. : )

Once again, thank you, Snowy, for this marvellous gift.

Pressing Problems of Picots

Jess’s HDT, #40           #24/100 MC       Design by Jennifer Williams

It is apparent to me that I have not quite yet resolved the matter of whether to block with the dreaded (and painfully sharp) pins on a board or to dampen and restrain beneath The Criminal Code of Canada till shaped. What follows is what I have determined.

Usually I do not make New Year’s resolutions, because I am already results oriented enough and obsessive beyond imagining, so I know if I promise to do something it will happen - and then some. 

So, I am usually gentle with myself at the year’s beginning, and only when it seems a calming idea and not too big a deal will I promise... This year I made a promise. Tis year, I am going to pay closer attention to picots and shrink them to half of their size.

This does not seem as grand an idea as taking up jogging again, (not my most gentle resolution) instead of walking, and then running three times a week NO MATTER WHAT... I am into the third year of that particular promise. You can see what I mean about obsession. 

This picots pledge seem a rather picayune promise. Paltry in fact - unless you happen to tat large and rather uneven picots, as I do. I have come to the conclusion that my tatting will be much improved and tighter tension will be the offshoot of tatting tiny picots. 

This takes some concentration and I do believe it is effective, as I can see when I look at this motif, the tension seems much tighter than usual, and I do like the more controlled aspect that the small picots add to my work.

Not much I can do this new thing with the monster picots of the Honey Napkin. Too late for that. With only four more rows and a gazillion picots left to tat, I shall retain my old ways in that arena. Amen.

Temporary Trembling...

There transpired a few bad moments when I inspected the results after the 14th row was completed. The big 21” looked very ruffled and I was in a bit of a panic...

So, I grabbed a wet cloth, and put the piece directly onto the floor, as there was not a surface large enough to hold it flat, in one piece, laid out.

The relief was... well, you tatters can imagine! It is going to be fine. On to the 15th row I go, after I purchase a new ball of thread; yes, I have to buy another. It will be the third.

Also, I have lost count of the amount of bobbin refilling I have wound: a multitude.

In the interim, for a bit of a break till I get the new thread, I used up the last of this HDT (Jess’s) on a Karey Solomon design and one round, mindless tat of my own.

#22 and #23/100 MC

The rectangle is a cape for Darth Vader and the other, a motif for The Boss’s handmade (by her, at 6 years of age!) skirt.

You think Darth Vader will approve? Hmm. 

Perhaps I should approach the
Marvel Star Wars art department.

Gray (3yrs) was suitable pleased, however....