Wednesday 7 March 2018

Testing tatting...

Or how to 'break your duck' by volunteering!!

A week or so ago someone told me they were back to tweaking and redesigning patterns... as I was 'in need' of something different to do, fingers took up the keyboard challenge and volunteered to test the pattern!! You've seen the black and gold result... I don't have gold bugle beads... I found silver, silver beads, and I had a fair length of thread on shuttles that needed using up... being a Yorkshire skinflint (hate waste) thread don't get thrown or put in the waste tub till it's too short to even make a tat splat!  (For those of you who don't know what it is, I'll explain in another post)...

Anyway, That Designer... didn't tell me there was a technique I avoid like the plague!! And I didn't realise till it was too late... bit the bullet, as they say, and followed destructions...  lot easier than I thought it would be... now no avoiding!!  Thanks for breaking the duck Miss!!

Here's the result, needs the ends finishing off... and I'm not forewarning anyone else... join me and break your duck!!! Lol




Thursday 1 March 2018

Weather or Whether...

Whether to stay in and tat or venture out in the weather...

Young Sir is stuck up in Scotland... no way to get his car out of the hotel car park! Red weather warning for him! Red also for those in the South West and South Wales, stay in and keep warm and tat!!

Red warnings in the uk are the highest - severe danger to life! 

So... think I'll sit and make earrings or something here in my corner of England... below freezing outside just not the blizzard conditions!

I'll show you the earrings almost finished from yesterday and a pretty snow pic from central Scotland...