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Next stop is doing a cluny snowflake. That will take some time...

Marvelous News! Isn't it a great feeling to conquer a new skill? Well done!

Congratulations!

Onwards and upwards. It's always good to conquor something and the longer you have been trying the better it is. Love that feeling.

I conquered the SSSR today myself! (Still have to practice the split rings!) Hooray! Awesome! Yay! And congrats on your conquest!

I used cabone rings to practice split chains. It made it much easier to see how to form the stitches.

Most of them only have one tatting pattern. Sometimes there were Two. Toward the end of the "WB" production there often was not one tatting pattern.

haha maybe that's it... maybe i just need to be invited into the Inner Sanctum.. hmm... so what's the password? ;)

ROFL - Secret Craft Cabal - Inner Sanctum - I love it!

I know it feels like I've joined the secret craft cabal and been invited into the inner sanctum. I'm trying to get my neighbor to tat, she bought a shuttle at a garage sale, and i need to introduce her to the GOOD thread >:)

All the people I know who find out I tat always want things - mats, jewelry, hankies & such. But when I finally say "Why don't I just teach you?" they all say "I don't have time, I couldn't get it right," or some other lame excuse. I'm seriously thinking I might start charging them for my thread & time!

I'm in the same boat with Randa. Three friends wanted to learn. I gave them shuttles, thread and patterns, showed them how to do it repeatedly, but so far no one has stuck with it. Sad. Congratulations on your friends, Crazytatter. Keep up the good work. We can always use a few more tatters in the world.

I gave them simple things I tatted too to whit their appetite and told them it is really easy that there is only 2 stiches really to learn. Then I show them the steps and they are hooked, you can see in their eyes that they wanted to try it too. Next day, I give them some thread and instruction and show them the steps.

I need your secret! :) All my friends want things I've tatted, but none of them want to learn themselves!

Ha! wouldn't you know it, I have that reader in my purse. am loading it into my album now. Here is the link. http://www.intatters.com/album.php?albumid=743

Yeah, I've been there too. = {

But right now with tatting I can excuse it with "I'm learning still." I wish I could say that I don't repeat mistakes, but I sure do. I am getting more careful and counting things twice. That helps. Right now, I keep joining to the wrong picot. I don't do it a lot, but I find I keep doing it.

I just need to find my reader of the tiny memory card. Can't remember where I put it last. Everything is stuck on this little memory stick in my phone.

I would love to see the rabbit. Long ago I did the macrame owl and frog hangers using twine and nylon cord. I am currently working on a doily design in a book, but made it more complicated by making it in two colors green cotton thread. I keep ending up with either threads I have to tuck or just short of making another ring. Once I get past this I know it will be easier. I tired tatting on a ring and that frustrates me. Needle tatting is fast and I can get simple designs done quickly. I made a turtle with some scalloped edging around. Picos make the feet and tail so its small. The total thing is about the size of a quarter. But I finished it.

Look forward to seeing your pictures, especially the hemp twine ones.

Oh, we have ALL done that!!! I am glad you are going to go back to the piece to fix it. Easily done but oh so aggravatin'!! Hang in there!

I know exactly how you feel,usually you don't notice a tatting mistake until you are joining something to a piece-and the beginning is wrong.Not only do you have to take out the part you were working on-but also the previous part...sometimes you can just un tat-other times you have to start over.Both choices are oh so irritating,but I will do one or the other-because I want each piece to be as perfect as I can get it.
Don't ya feel better when you've fixed it-even though ya feel sort of dumb-for makin' the mistake?I do,and I (almost)never make the same mistake again.