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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Preparation is the key


 Tatters now this to be a truth. If you don’t prepare your shuttles well, you end up with kinks and twists and ugly DS. If you don’t prepare where to hide ends, you end up with bulges and extra thread and maybe even glue blobs. If you don’t prepare the beads on the thread around your hand, you end up without beads on the picots of your ring. Preparation is important.

I spend some time last week preparing to loan items for a show in a local municipal gallery. It’s tedious labeling your lace. It takes time to fill out forms and assign value and give credit where credit is due. Oh, and the Artist Statement. Yeah. It all takes thought and time. Don’t get me wrong. It’s worth it. 100%. I hope we tempt other people to investigate tatting with our local group. Or at least watch a video or two.

This week I’m preparing my donation for the Art of Music. Just a few more elements, hide ends, block, photograph, label and document, and then take that deep breath and hand it over to the wonderful volunteers. (I found out last month that my blog is read by some of them. Gulp! Thank you!!) I hope it helps to raise lots of money!

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