Mistake fixed

 Remember this funexperiment? Well, upon further examination, it’s a fail. Snowflakes in nature have 6 points. This one ended up with 7. Now, there is a reasonable explanation.

I needed to add yarn to both “shuttles” to have enough to finish out the snowflake. I cut extra long lengths just so I wouldn’t be distracted by fiddling with short ends. Then, I got so caught up in the adding that I lost my place in the pattern. I added alright…..7 extra rings.

I set it aside. For a week….or more……

Then I decided I really would like to gift the snowflake. Out came the mistake, out came the pattern, out came the scissors. But I was having difficulty figuring out which rings to keep and which to cut. So, out came the stitch markers to identify which rings started the repeat, which rings were extra, and which rings I needed to join.

After sleeping overnight on that, I took a breath and cut out rings. Now to figure out exactly what I needed to tat where. Since I picked out enough of the remaining rings to have a good long length of yarn, I was confident that I could tat the final ring while hiding ends. I just needed to figure out where to hide ends, if it was possible to join or if I was just going to tie knots. Oh, and one small detail:

I realized I didn’t have a good enough grasp of the hook tatting technique. I needed to use shuttle or needle. With yarn, needle it was.

After another sleep, I felt I was ready to set up the needle, grab a flosser to help hide 1 end, and sacrifice to the knotting gods (i.e. brew the appropriate cup of tea) to get this show on the road.

Here’s what I ended up with. Now to grab a tapestry needle to hide the other 2 ends.

Tada…..

All fixed.

Ready to gift.

How where’s that glass of wine????