In the comments section of the blog two days ago Kathy said:-
"A couple of words stood out to me: 'magazine' and 'doodad'. Did the magazine do an interview also, in addition to printing your pattern? And apparently you were using doodads back in 2000!"
Well that prompted another trip up into the loft to look for the patterns I did back then for a magazine here in the UK. No interviews and no mention of my name either!!!
All I really remember is the craft lass rang me up and asked for 'tatted snowflakes', please. I'd done things for them before which I will show you another day. Well I suppose I've always had a rather unusual way of looking at tatting so I decided to do something that nobody I knew of round then had done before. These were done in 1999 at the beginning of my 'four bad years' so this was a real morale booster back then.
In those 'good old days' there was a lady who had a tiny, tiny wardrobe sized outlet in one of the antiques arcades in town. In fact many times you had to wait outside for the only customer in there to come out so you could squeeze in!!!!
I found some (now called doodads) metal findings in there and promptly set about doing four designs for the magazine. Three were published as you can see below. Unfortunately they took over a year to be put in there and as these sorts of metal findings were so hard to get the lass in the arcade had run out of one sort!!! That's the reason that one of the snowflakes below doesn't have a doodad!!!! I wonder why they didn't use the other one? I'll never know now.
So, for those who missed previous posts here are the links to the patterns that came about because of this. First the altered original here on rings and currently I'm working on updating this one - which wasn't published!!!!