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Snowflake Blocking
Originally uploaded by crafting4goddess.

Tee-hee-hee!!
Here is my first tatted snowflake...all loppy and unsymetrical. Just like any first large project should be! All freshly sprayed with linen smellin starch (MMMmmmMMMmmm...reminds me of home) it'll be ready to hand in no time!

I will be working on making this tiny tatted heart while I watch my favorite programs tonight. Moonlight is on tonight. SQUEEEEEEeeeeeeee!!! I squeel at the moon instead of howl. Okay...I am a little goofy tonight!

My back is better, but now my neck is stiff. Oye. I can't win!

Free digital vintage Tatting books and patterns

This is not a commercial. Seriously! This is a public announcement! LOL

I was looking at another tatting blog today and found a vintage book of tatting patterns that I would not mind having. Then I went to ebay. One seller was selling a digital collection of PUBLIC DOMAIN material. Can you say "Rip-Off"?? If it is public domain it is free to the public.

I am not sure how I found this site, but I love it. It is a public digital library collection of old vintage tatting pattern books whose copyrights have expired. Click on catalog on the right hand side to access what they have available. I have downloaded three complete books so far. They even have a yahoo group that you can join. They send out announcements when they add new books for downloading. I've already spotted several I am going to do & one that I am gonna modify into a pendent/pin to wear for St Patties day.

Don't get ripped off purchasing digital downloads of public domain material! Get it for free! Books and patterns that were published before 1923 are considered public domain now. Knowledge is power.

I really must stop looking online at tatting patterns and actually do some of them!! LMAO! Look at this pattern I found from the digitized book Corticelli Lessons in Tatting ! Who'da thunk!! I so want to do this! And there are also tatted baskets! BASKETS! OMG it is a treasure trove of digital goodness...13MB & 58 pages of digital goodness!! Oh dear...I really must stop drooling all over the keyboard...

I think I figured out my dilemma from yesterday on how to attach the long picot loop to the ring. I did two half hitches and then tatted the rest of the loop in under the knots. Then I decided to make a beaded picot to hang a charm from. It's almost done then I'll have a photo ready. Does this count towards the 25 motif count??

Oye, my back is still hurtin me today. I went and bought those stick on instant hot pads by Icy-Hot. It has helped in relaxing that area on my back...OOOO yeah that feels niiiiiiiiiiiice. Now I just have to find time to meditate and concentrate on healing that area so it gets better faster.

Until next time...

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What to do?!

Does anyone have the book Contemporary Tatting: New Designs from an Old Art by Judith Connors that can help me out? I cannot figure out a part of one of the patterns. The pattern is for the Gemini beaded earrings on page 27. The authors instructions for the Dora Young knot was just atrocious and it took me two days to figure it out with help from various websites. Anyhoo when the pattern brings you to the bottom of the hoop that you are covering in thread, it says to string beads onto an extra-extra large picot and then "...link this to the ring..." but the author fails to instruct the reader on HOW to do this. I tried setting it under the knots, but it was easily pulled out. I tried tying it on by knotting through the picot, but that left one thread of the picot out of place and it didn't look neat to me. Any ideas on how to do this "linking" thing?

We are up for another Winter Storm warning tomorrow here in south-central Wisconsin. They say it will be a doozy but we know how those predictions go. Usually never as bad as they say...either that or they are a whole lot worse than they predict! LMAO!!

Somehow I picked a nerve in my lower back just above my butt bone (fancy term for tail-bone) yesterday when I was trying to practice doubling up my kicks. OWE. My back is better today but I am still stiff and sore around the butt-bone.

Now if I could just figure out this joining thing...I could make LOTS of these earrings to give away. MMMmmm....in the meantime

Here is a Celtic knot heart I tried to do from the book Celtic Tatting. It kinda looks like a heart, I think. It was a real beotch to weave the string of knots to make the center. The white one is what it is supposed to look like. Mine kinda sorta looks like the picture....kinda...sorta...

My heart has been through the wringer...literally. HA! HA-HA-HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

I like puns. :P

Until next time...

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Your Potential To Feel Good

Folk Art Video

Here is a very educational, very interesting video that features folks in Wyoming who practice Folk Arts. It features a tatter, a Native American Drummer (Drumkeeper), a bladesmith, and a weaver. I found it very fun to watch and gave me a sense of wonder as a womyn who is a "Jill-of-all-Trades".

I heard that the web player was not working so here is direct link.

Until next time...

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