Even though I spent
some time figuring out hiding ends in TDS, I’m still not sure how this is going
to turn out. Time to take a deep breath, pick up the shuttles and figure it
out.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Ever have one of those days?
The kind that whooshes by in a flurry of not-important activity? Yeah….the last few days were like that for me.
I played the third
Sunday in a row. My hands and wrists are telling me. So, I haven’t been tatting
a lot. Rest has helped. I loaded the beads for my final round of BWV 572. Now
to pick up the shuttles and put the ideas into lace. I have until the end of
next week. Best get cracking!
Thursday, June 12, 2025
I think this will work
Have I used that as a title for a post? I probably have.
This is one of my
distraction designs that waylaid me earlier. I want to use it as an outer round
for BWV 572. This section of the piece is sparkly. Most of the beads are loaded
before tatting, so it should work up quickly.
I think it will
work.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
I’m in that exhilarating and sometimes frustrating stage of designing. I can’t keep my mind on tatting the pattern (read: I make a few mistakes) because my mind is making up new patterns. If you’re picturing shuttles laying around with a few rings and chains attached, but nothing that looks like a project, you’re not far off. I would call myself distracted.
I promise to finish
the Art of Music submission. I promise to keep working on the shawl. I promise
to keep working on Wiosna 2025. But, if I find I have a bit of time, I’ll be
dragging out my templates to help me get the designs to lay flat more quickly.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Finding inspiration
While walking in the woods, I see wonderful snowflake designs in fern fronds.
A bouquet of Sweat peas fills the room with scent and fills the eyes with overlapping curves.
I’ll need a fair
amount of discipline soon. I’m almost done with BWV 572. I have a list of
design possibilities. Sticking to the grand plan and not getting distracted will
be important!
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Coming along
I’m working
carefully on this round. The technique is a bit fiddly, but very effective for
this point in the pattern.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
How to learn
Make mistakes.
Most of the time, we
strive to get things right. We know we have learned things when we complete the
pattern correctly. If we’re lucky, we don’t make a lot of mistakes along the
way. There’s something to be said for finding a teacher/mentor that can guide
us so we have more success than mistakes. However…..
Creating something
new usually ends up with mistakes along with those successes.
I’ve been working on
new ideas lately. That means some mistakes.
I’m learning.