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February Tat and Chat

Last Tuesday my two most recent tatting students came over for a tat and chat.  We’ve been getting together about once a month for several months now.  We have so much fun!  I’m not sure just how much tatting actually gets done but we do talk about it and have a great time.

Sherry cautiously works on her tatting @ wandasknottythoughts.com

Sherry takes a cautious approach to tatting.  She doesn’t like taking out mistakes so doesn’t work very fast but she’s making progress.  She’s working on a heart that she would like to frame.

Becky winds a shuttle preparing for her next project @ wandasknottythoughts.com

Becky is a lot more bold and not afraid to make mistakes.  Since last month she tatted four hearts, framed them and gave them away for Valentine’s day.  She didn’t yet have a pattern that called for it but she wanted to learn how to make split rings.  She was doing it quite well with them by the time she left.

Becky brought a few flea market finds, a small doily, small piece of hen and chicks and a shuttle @ wandasknottythoughts.com
 Becky brought along a few flee market/antique store finds.  The small doily was found some time ago and looks to be made in about size 30.  Another time she and her husband did some bargaining for the silver shuttle.  The larger one we have determined is made from French ivory and is in very nice shape.  It is about the size of a Tatsy shuttle (the silver about the size of regular Clover) and still has tatting attached, the hen and chicks probably made in size 30.
We’ve set a date for our March get-together and made plans for our April meet to be on April 1 for International Tatting Day. They think they can handle the requirements: tat something fun, do it in public, and eat chocolate!
Have you made plans for International Tatting Day yet?
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Tat and chat


Back in June I taught the basics in a tatting class to a couple of ladies from Wichita.  I’m very pleased that both have kept up with it and are enjoying it a lot.  We’ve communicated by email several times and thought it would be fun to get together again.  The timing finally worked and we met at Cheryl’s house last week.
Me, Cheryl and Erica

Cheryl has made several lovely bookmarks and is working on another; Erica is working on a gift for a friend.   I’m impressed with their tatting, they are both doing a great job!  We talked patterns, threads, techniques, and shuttles.  They each had a list of questions to ask, which I hope I was able to answer satisfactorily for them.  It was a fun visit which I’m hoping we’ll be able to do again sometime.

I hate to say it but the above photo is the only one I took (!).  I was going to take one of some of their work but got side-tracked by the conversation.  Time seemed to go by much to quickly!

Can you believe it?  I still haven’t touched any more of my new thread yet. I have yet another project with a deadline that I am hurrying to meet.  If I hadn’t gotten sick last weekend, and had a different schedule all week, I would have been able to proceed in a more relaxed manner.  But now I’m in a rush again.  And of course I couldn’t just choose an existing pattern, mine or someone else’s – no, I had to go and try something new. Again!  You’d think I’d learn, especially when there’s a deadline, but I do this to myself time and time again.  I guess I like taking the chance that it will all work out.  And in time!

Lizbeth #149 Peacock Blues size 20.

Thank you to all who wished me health this last week.  I do feel a lot better, though now it seems to have morphed into really bad allergies with just a reminder now and then that colds hang on awhile.

“I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.”
Robert Fulghum
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