Repairs

    One thing I will say, this doily has been an adventure. I am now working round 12, the penultimate round, and I was working away yesterday when i noticed one place kept bunching up. I laid out the doily on the table and saw that I had missed one entire repeat of the pattern and that the attachment points on round 11 were laying bare and loose. I don't really want to un-tat that much work, so the first thing I did was snip it apart at that location.

    Now I have it apart, I pulled loose the left side ring and chain, leaving enough thread to tie and sew up. I wound a couple more shuttles with a few yards of thread and attached, then re-tatted the repeat that should have been there all along. For some reason, the ring on the right had no inclination to undo ( I did pull on it in different directions several times to test it), so I simply worked to it and attached. I may put a spot of Fray Check on it later.

    I think it came out pretty well. You have to look closely to see where I added it back in. Now on with the rest of the round. I would like to finish this round before going to Tat Days next week.

Round 11 Done

    Finally found a little time to get something done. When I have a chance I have been working round 11 of Renulek's Spring Napkin. At lunch today I was able to finish round 11. This has been a long one. 48 motifs to repeat. They are not hard and only take about 20 minutes to do one, but getting time lately has been hard. It does need a little shaping, but nothing drastic. It is laying pretty well. I think the last 2 rounds will help with that.

    On to round 12. It should go pretty quickly.

SCMR Earrings

    It has been a while. The last few weeks have been really busy for me for some reason. Seems there has been non-stop something coming up that needs doing, so I really have not done a lot of tatting.
    Last month, at the Palmetto Tatters Guild meeting, we made earrings designed by Shawna Wachs. These are cute and I have already passed them to a friend. She wears them. They are really good practice for working with SCMR's, though. The entire thing is done in chains. I had never seen beads with 2 holes in the same direction, but that is how these work. You make the chain as SCMR, then pass the loop through the bead and close it. That makes only half the "ring", but you go around and do the other side too. You can make these in under an hour. I will find out if I am allowed to pass the pattern or not. I do respect copyrights.

    Tomorrow is the next meeting of the guild. We will be putting together things for Tat Days. It should be a fun day with lots of chatting and fellowship as we work. I am looking forward to it. Then, in just a couple more weeks, TAT DAYS! Yeah, I do tend to get excited.