While I've not been blogging

While I've not been blogging I have still been busy.  Not just with the hassles of life but also with crafting of all sorts!!!

Once I'd got settled into my new place (with the bonus of having a dedicated craft room) I decided to try and downsize on my fabric stash.  How to do that?!?

First of all I had to decide what to make and the obvious 'thing' was a new winter coat.  I decided I wanted a long, warm winter coat.  First a rummage in my wardrobe to find something suitable to use for warmth and there I found a very old (probably 20 years) fleece.  BC3 decided that was a good start!  The only problem was that it wasn’t long enough so I found a fleece throw and cut that into strips of about 8 inches deep and attached them to the bottom.  Afraid I didn’t take pictures of that, though.  

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. 

ANOTHER rainy day

I think it's rained nearly every day this year and it's doing it again today so it's a good excuse to stay home and add things to my web site!!! 

There's another new pattern from Tat Days 2024 now available on my free pattern site.  Look in the section 'odds and ends'!

This is one of the rare patterns that I'm really pleased with!!!  Takes a lot to please me, I'm afraid!

On a side note - I'm fed up with two of the Facebook tatting groups that I belong to.  One at least I'm going to leave purely because there's now more crochet being shown than tatting.  I've reported this to admins and then messaged them too but nothing changes.  I do love to crochet from time to time (and knit) but I don't like to see it in tatting groups.  As I only go to Facebook to see what's happening in Tat Land I can easily leave those groups and life will become simpler!!!