Tatting with friends

There's a place in America that I would love to go to but never will, sadly. 

That's the Finger Lakes Tatting convention which you can find here. 

I 'nearly' got there one year but it wasn't when the group were meeting and I was in a plane flying from Toronto to Newark on my first leg home from another tatting convention!!! I was looking out of the window and saw the lakes but I didn't have a handy parachute so wasn't able to float down. 

All reports I've heard about Karey's group have been wonderful with great hospitality and super teachers. 

I have 'sort of' been involved this year as I have test tatted the snowflake that Martha is teaching. It's the Mrs. Mee Pearl Snowflake. This is SUCH a pretty tat and I love the picots and how they're formed. 

Martha is a challenge to test tat for as her work is always, but always perfect so trying to 'catch her out' makes me concentrate even more on each instruction. The picots worked so well following her text that I would love to incorporate them in future designs of my own. When/IF I ever get back to the shuttles!!!  

Thank you Martha for letting me play with this. Here's a picture.