Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Progress & Pins (February 18th-much delayed)
Monday, January 29, 2024
Quick post
I almost forgot. Tri-tatters met yesterday. Lovely meeting, not 100% successful for me.
Got 1 day of my shawl done, then realized I had loaded the wrong color for the subsequent day. Worked on it t today. Still had issues, but progress was made.
2024 TTAL progress (Jan 25+) |
That is the wrong placement for Jan 25 |
Didn't have the loaded shuttles to work on Richard's helix bracelet.
Didn't have the pins to block the bun cover.
Suddenly realized I had joined in the wrong place of round 9 of the Handsome Hat. Have to retro-tat 9 chains and 9 lock joins.
Tried to make a pair of earrings. Last ring went cattywampus.
Did untangle size 80 thread barf.
That center mess is thread barf (size 80) |
All untangled |
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Special Project
I was asked to help with a special project at work, so less time for blog posts, etc.
I managed to catch up on the 2024 Temperature Tat Along but I have 1 project in progress and 3 more that I want to start. I am working on a bun cover like my 'oops, that's not a doily' in darker colors. I need to get a styrofoam ball to use to block it though.
up to January 17th temperature shawl |
I need to decide what threads I want to use for the marker motifs; January, February, etc. I did find some black filament to add if we get hit by a hurricane or similar horrible weather.
I also want to try the helix tatting bracelet (pattern by Richard Embrey). I need to load beads for it, though.
The online tatting class is working on an early 20th century hat pattern; translating the pattern and then tatting it. I have the 1st 11 or 12 rounds translated to modern but I haven't started it yet.
Plus there, a chrysanthemum brooch pattern from the 1940s I want to do. I have the beads loaded for it but I haven't started it yet.
It's been so cold. I've been wearing layers every day, plus wearing my warm boots most days.
Yesterday, I took a class on sashiko. We did a small piece in the shippo pattern. I finally understand how to do it. I have tried kits but I just couldn't comprehend them. The fault lies with me, not the kits I believe.
I'm thinking of joining A Twisted Picot's Sashiko-a-long in February.
My first sashiko |
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Guess who got sick?
You've got 3 guesses & 1st 2 don't count.
It wasn't Covid (I tested) but it might have been RSVP. It definitely involved mucus and fever. For about 2 days I lived on water and intermittent peanut butter crackers (I couldn't manage more than 1 at a time).
I did get some tatting done, before & after. I made snowflakes for several friends (from A Veritable Tatted Blizzard). I gave this year's State Fair Ornament entry to a pair of friends who will appreciate it.
I'm glad I went to see my family before Christmas, so getting sick didn't ruin that at least. But my other plans, Christmas dinner with my partner's family, sewing, tatting, etc all got kiboshed.
I was already scheduled to be off work so no need to notify anyone there.
At least I recovered enough that I was both feeling better and not contagious so I could maintain the Christmas/New Year tradition of the party with my friends from high school, plus additions.
I don't think I got many pictures of the snowflakes I made. I'll need to check. I have 3 at least. The picture with 2 flakes are the same pattern that I made a slight error on. But once is a mistake, repeat and it's a design element.
We got some rain on Jan 9th |
pocket scarf progress |
Kiriki Press kit squirrel |
I'm proud of this tag on a coworker's cookies |
I also joined a 2024 Temperature Tat A Long (this is as of January 9th)
2024 TTAL January 9th |
Thursday, December 07, 2023
It's Snowing!
Sort of. I have tatted Harmony of Hearts snowflake from A Veritable Tatted Blizzard. Due to not reading ahead, I ended up with 2 variations of the same flake. I did make 1 change, I used a split chain to go from round 1 to round 2. Note: I started with 4 yards on each shuttle, then ran short of thread on shuttle 2 (lots of chains, no surprise), SLT and still ended up with over a yard of thread on shuttle1. Next iteration, I'm going to use 3 yards on shuttle 1 and 5 yards on shuttle 2.
I'm working on my Solar Flare in silver and round out of thread. This wouldn't be horrible, but there are beads involved.
I did get my teacher application for Palmetto Tat Days submitted. I'm not 100% happy with the diagrams, though.
UNC winter blood drive was today. I successfully donated. Since I didn't manage to sign up for a volunteer shift I helped with set up last night. The person who usually helps set up the canteen wasn't available so we went off our best memories of the set up (folks who do usually work that station had a good idea how it's supposed to be). So once we were done, I took pictures so we'll have them next year.
I lost Whamageddon, though.
I ordered maps for Rosemary. She had bought them but needed them printed out. And it's much easier and faster to get them printed on big paper by a print shop than print them on 8.5x11 and then tape them together.
Hanukkah starts at sunset. May your life be filled with light. Yes, I know what's happening in Gaza. What Hamas did was horrible. And Israel's leadership has done some US level horrific actions (Japanese internment camp and Native American Reservation level of horrible), so they don't have clean hands. It's too much to hope that children should be able to be safe, warm, and fed, I guess.
And the so-called Republican leadership in Congress is just embarrassing. They're so busy bickering and yelling things for the social media engagement that they aren't leading. Never mind paying attention to what would actually help their constituents and the nation, that never seems to cross their mind. The closest I've seen is an attitude of 'this is what I want so it must be what everyone wants.'
Oh if you want an idea about the reliability and/or bias of a news source, here's a handy dandy chart.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Post Thanksgiving
The train ride was lovely. Although there were 2 gents (I use the term loosely) who were apparently unacquainted with the existence of headphones. I mean, when the phone conversation directly in front of me is less intrusive than videos that are 3-4 seats away? Really?
Dad has some more of the pen rings for me, but couldn't find them. He'd also gotten me a six pack of Cheerwine zero 16 oz bottles, and some pistachio nuts. After I got home, I found the rings, under the bag of nuts.
C & I went to an outlet mall on Black Friday. Dangerous, we know. Neither one of us has been out shopping on Black Friday in 5-8 years. But he needed jeans and hey, the store was having a 50% off sale.
I finished writing up the pattern for Solar Flare. I just need to submit it & my teacher application to Palmetto Tat Days by Friday.
Transferring photos to my new laptop. I have 81k pictures. I might need to cull some. Or at least organize them better.