I’m still making a few of my old snowflake patterns, and still trying them out with beads. This one I changed a lot from my original pattern besides the beads for several reasons. One: I had done this one with only five points and I want it to have six. Two: I had done it with lots of picots so it looked very frilly. I have been adding beads in place of picots and this snowflake had lots of picots. But I don’t really want to add that many beads, so the extraneous picots had to go. Three: using the original stitch count made it a little bit bigger than what I wanted right now so I reduced the stitches by a few everywhere.
It’s somewhat hard to see the clear beads on the snowflakes, but in person the beads catch the light, making them well worth the effort to add.
I’ve done other tatting this week but nothing that’s ready to share. I keep changing my mind on what I want and keep switching from one project to another. Hopefully I’ll have finished one thing or another by next week. And maybe even post on Tuesday. I had tea and tatted on Tuesday, I just ran out of time to post!
This last weekend we went up to visit our daughter and family. We had a great time, going to an air show on Saturday and the Omaha Children’s Museum on Sunday. I had never been to a children’s museum, though I knew that the exhibits were meant to be touched and be interactive with children. They currently have an exhibit of dinosaurs there, something our grandson likes right now.
We found something interesting to see right away when we arrived, before we even went in.
This praying mantis was on our parking meter. We had to stop and check it out before we went any farther. You can see she was quite large. She only moved a little bit the whole time we stood to watch her, which didn’t impress my two-year-old grandson.
We decided to go to the dinosaur exhibit first, to make sure we had plenty of time there. For all that he likes dinosaurs, my grandson was a little intimidated by the robotic dinosaurs that moved and made noises.
The dinosaurs are not full-sized but quite realistic looking (how does anyone really know?)
My grandson didn’t take too long to get over being scared. There is so much there for them to do.
This is a robot skeleton that the children can push buttons to move, up down, side to side. It was very popular with the kids.
They can also uncover fossils in a sand box.
There were more activities in the display and many more throughout the museum. We were there for several hours and didn’t even get close to seeing everything. If any of you with children or grandchildren are in the Omaha area and are looking for something fun to do I recommend this. They do have places for the parents to sit and watch while the children explore 🙂
(I am not being paid for this endorsement, it was just so much fun to watch the children there I wanted to share with it everyone else.)
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Albert Einstein
When our children were young – 20 plus years ago, we took them to the children's museum in Omaha and Minneapolis. Very good places to learn, with lots of hands on activities. Maybe someday we will take our grandkids.
Lovely snowflakes,
It looks like he had a wonderful day, and very interesting place and I am sure he will want to go again.
Margaret
You are so versatile with your tatting, changing up the stitch counts, picots and beads to make patterns look shiny and new!
Children's museums ROCK! (wish they had had them when I was a kid…but glad to experience them with my own)
Your grandson is SO BIG! Wow. And even more handsome than I remember. Glad you had a wonderful time!