Idiot Tatting
I am cursed. Or stupid. Something like that. Probably a little of both.
Last Saturday the Shuttle Brothers were at the Lacemakers of Puget Sound meeting. It was fun and those guys are so fun!
I bought their Self Closing Mock Ring book. I also bought Tatting for Pleasure by Rosemarie Peel and Tatted Animals by Inga Madsen. Oh, yeah. And a couple of plastic shuttles. You can never have too many cheap plastic shuttles.
Ok, so I start on a pair of beaded earring's out of Rosemarie's book. First go-around ends badly. I start tatting off the wrong shuttle because I am not paying enough attention. So my earrings won't have any stupid beads! I figure it is only a waste of a few feet of thread, so I start over.
What next? I space out and put the beads on the core thread, not the picot thread of the ring. Looks like crap so I give up. I figure I am not in a good frame of mind, but really in the mood for tatting, so I will just tat a few GR-8 Butterflies. Wrong. I forget a picot and a few DSs, so my butterfly is all malformed. How lame am I?
