Just to let you know that I've done some amendments to the large giraffe pattern thanks to Cheryl who's so kindly helped me out.
This is an old, old pattern written (I believe) before the birth of BC3 so it had a few glitches. Now they've been put right thanks to Cheryl I'm a very happy old git. Oh, here's the link.
Also while I was on the file manager on my site I did a few small alterations to the wording on this file too. I needed to make the reasons for it clearer - I think!!!
This is now my preferred way of starting any piece of tatting as there are no knots involved!!! I also added a link from that page to this one for ending a piece (again I always use this nowadays) which leaves only one end to sew in.
If ONLY I could find the enthusiasm for housework and stuff then life would be a lot better!!!!