Sunday, December 16, 2012

Finished!



Perseverance pays off – tatting like mad during my lunch breaks and what few minutes I had when I finally got home from work in the dark of night, I completed three Christmas ornaments for the exchange at the December meeting of the Palmetto Tatters Guild!

I had said last week that I wanted to do a couple of wreaths, a snowflake, and maybe an angel – well, the “maybe an angel” didn’t get done, but the snowflake and wreaths did.  I had some fun with the wreaths – I used two different sizes of beads, and I really like the look!  I also put the bow at the top of one wreath and at the bottom of the other. 

Some tat stats:  the snowflake was tatted in size 20 Lizbeth “Blue Ice” and doesn’t have any beads, because when I wrote the pattern originally, I didn’t include beads and at this point, I was in too big a hurry to figure out how many and where they should go.  Both wreaths are the same, the only difference is the bow placement.  Altin-Basik thread size 50 (between a 20 and a 30 in Lizbeth), metallic green.  The filament is more of a light gold than a silver, and is very sparkly when tatted up.  Beads used were size 6 (8 of them) and size 10 (22 of them).

Now I have to consider whether I have time to do ornaments for my co-workers; with reorganization and transfers, there are seven now in my department.  I’m supposed to be on vacation starting this Friday, and at least one of my co-workers is taking vacation time earlier.  The question is: can I tat like mad again and finish by Wednesday morning to give them out?  Can I do it??

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  1. Corse you can. I know you can. I'm SURE you can.

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    1. I appreciate your confidence in me - but I don't even know what to make yet! And I have to do it seven times! And be done by Wednesday morning!

      Good grief! I have got to stop letting my mouth write checks that my fingers can't cash!

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  2. Just don't bother to do anything else after work, but sit and tat and tat and tat!! Make something quick and easy and probably with no beads as they slow you up! Whatever you make people will appreciate even if it seems a simple pattern, they don't know that

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  3. I actually tried this last week, but 'the best laid plans' and all that. I do have 35-40 minutes during my lunch break and can tat if no one comes in and asks me questions (I have had that happen a couple of times). Once I decide on a design - a simple one! - I'll get busy and see how quickly I can turn them out!

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  4. Delightful tatting, Sharren! Keep those fingers flying!
    Fox : )

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    1. Thanks, Fox! I'm in my usual dilemma - can't decide which pattern to tat!

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  5. I know you can, but I have the same dilemma. I've decided I'm going to take Oreos and milk to school for my coworkers!

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    1. Excellent idea! Mine aren't really milk fans (and I know at least one is lactose intolerant), but they do like soda pop - so I can see taking a couple of two-liter bottles and a couple of packages of Oreos. Thanks for the great idea! :-)

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  6. Your schedule would wear me out! I'm amazed you're tatting at all!

    Don't know if you saw the URL I posted on Diane's comments where you asked about the Hobby Lobby doodads. Here it is:
    http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/assorted-dream-catchers-547943/

    This url was found by God's kid. Fortunately, my Hobby Lobby had them in the store.

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    1. Oh, I've had worse schedules than this - full time college student in 1999-2002, 2 part time jobs (one became full time during this period), looked after my mom (assisted living - visited her every day) and my mom-in-love (on her own, but frail - visited her 4-5 times per week), and kept my grades up all at the same time.

      I did find the doodads - I actually got off work a little bit earlier than what has been the norm for the last several months, and went to our local HobLob - got the doodads, and also a little bag of gears 'n things that might be interesting to tat around. Thanks for posting the link - because of it, I knew exactly what to look for!

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