It's a BOWL!!

Well, here it is. The ends still need sewing in, but it's done! In all of it's miscounted splendor! :-) If you caught my last post, I missed 4ds- in each of my chains between my rings and screwed up the ENTIRE things, thus, it's a bowl. It WILL NOT lay flat! those stitches were obviously in the pattern for a reason. I can promise you though, I won't miss those next time! Here's a picture.

My next project (and I can promise you I'm going to pay VERY close attention to the stitch counts on this one!) is a 14" doily from Mary Konior's Tatting Patterns. I'll try and be better about posting picture during construction. I think it's going to be very pretty (if I make it right). :-)

I thought I was paying attention!

I really did. I honestly thought that I was doing it all right, but alas, I was not. I have been tatting the Spinning Wheel pattern and it's been acting more like a bowl and not laying flat, I could NOT figure out what I was doing wrong! Well, I figured it out this morning! I was looking at the Tat-ilicious blog and saw hers and realized as I was looking at it that I've been missing 4ds- on my chains between the three rings! It's supposed to be ring, 4ds-4ds-4ds and I was doing ring 4ds-4ds! HOW COULD I MISS THAT?! I'm nearly done, so I'll still finish it and perhaps turn it into a little bowl? I feel so stupid! Well, it was good practice though. :-)

Quite a day

Well, Mike and I haven't been feeling well lately. Mike found out yesterday that he has Strep. I decided to go to walk-ins today and found out I have a sinus infection, Strep and fluid behind my ear drum. We're both on antibiotics now.
   On a tatting note. I'm over halfway done with Mary Konior's Spinning Wheel glass mat! YA!!! It's coming together really well. I'll take pictures as soon as it's done and blocked. My next project is going to be a doily she has in Tatting Patterns. It's from Hostess Set. It's the centerpiece. I can't wait to get it started! I don't have two skeins of the same color in ANYTHING, so I'm going to need to find some coordinating colors and use them together and hope it looks okay.
  Well, I'm off. Have a couple more things left to do today before I can TRY and get my tatting finished!! Hopefully I can start blocking it tonight, we'll see though, if not I'll be blocking tomorrow! YA!!!!

Still trying

I started a Mary Konior pattern, the Spinning Wheel Glass Mat. I thought I was doing well until I realized I'd done something wrong and now I have to start over. It wasn't really a fixable mistake, so, I'm going to start it again and I have several more things I'd like to get started. I LOVE looking at Mary's books. I have 3 of them and keep finding things in them I'd like to make.

Tatting Class!

I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO START A TATTING CLASS!!!
  I can't even believe it! Another homeschool mom asked me to teach her girls to tat. She said she'd even pay me to do it. She's seeing if anyone else wants to get in on the class or not. Hoping I'm up to the task. I find that I need to work on my delivery or something. I don't always seem to be able to communicate things so that they make sense to other people, even when they make sense to me.

12 YEARS TODAY!!!

Today I have been married to the love of my life, the father of my children, a WONDERFUL father and husband for 12 years! I can't believe it's been that long! I love you Mike!

Just took this picture last week on a trail where we went hiking and saw an old farmhouse from the early 1800s with 5 other families in our homeschool group. There were 10 adults and more than 20 children!

He's Home!!!

My little brother is home on leave from Afghanistan! He's been gone for 8 LONG months, but he's home now for 2 weeks! We're leaving Saturday morning to head to the States to visit him and his family and some other family for a couple of weeks.
  We've been pretty busy here tying up the end of the school year. We have some BRAND NEW homeschoolers in the area, they're here from the States. They are brought up here by the opening of the Target stores.
  I haven't had a lot of time to work on my tatting, but it's coming with me to the States. I'm thinking of making a special notebook to put my tatting in as I make it and embellishing scrapbook pages with tatting.
  We're going to have a REALLY busy school year coming up this fall. We have 4 children. By September they'll be 3 1/2, 6 (in 1st grade), 8 (in 3rd grade) and 11 (in 6th grade). We use a literature based learning system and this means a LOT of work with school. They are learning SO well! We've been trying to get out doing nature walks more often, we've gotten a membership to the Royal Botanical Gardens. We're also going to be spending some time with some other homeschool families going to different events happening in the Niagara region dealing with the bicentennial of the War of 1812. It will be interesting to see this from a Canadian perspective. 
 Well, I'm off. It's nearly nap time for the younger children and there's things to do to prepare for Saturday.