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the following rant is posted on my Blogg, if you have already read it then please dont bother to again.
A quick Note though, my Tatting Friends have never been guilty of this!

After recieving the same Hoax e-mail from all of my family I have finally snapped...Yes I need another cup of Tea, & maybe chocolate, but for crying out loud…think, People! That is why the almighty gave us Brains, use them.

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With the Birth of the Internet, and all its wonders e-mail has quickly became its Basta… Continue

I finally finished a UFO from 2005?..& I will post a pic as soon as I get back! The DH is taking me shopping Whoooeeee!

OK this was a project from 2006, not 2005. The pattern is from a class taught by Ginny W. Of the Finger Lakes tatting group of NY. I took her class in April of 06 at Hector Tatt days. This was my first experince meeting other tatters, my first solo trip out of state, and my first experience of tatting all day Long.... by the end of the day I know I was very cranky :) This… Continue

I joined the ranks of Blogs on Blogger, http://tias-place.blogspot.com/ now I can bore you to tears there too!

Unfortunatly Not with Beatrice the Doily, But as quick Gratification I have completed The Large Cross By Mary Konoir, in the Tatting with Visual Patterns Book :) It only took me 4 days to finish. If you know how slow I tatt this is Quite an accomplishment;)

Done in Oren Bayan Perle Cotton #12, varigated Greens.

I am super excited because this it the first Piece I have completed since 2005. Dont get me wrong I have lots of UFO's But this is Done! I even Blocked it out last night before going to… Continue

*sheepish* Sooo What have i been tatting since April you may ask? well I started out with Iris Neibach's Beatrice single round Doily....to many miscounted stitches & missed joins later In disgust I hung up my shuttles again :( but November hit & I picked up my Naalbinding (nordic form of early knitting) & made a finger less mitten (the other is still in progress) In my search for wool yarn for the mits, I found the mangled remains of Beatrice.....she sat on my sewing table looking ve… Continue