Updates

Well I have attempted to upload pictures today while at work and had no success so I will have to do that when I get home from work. 

I have grown upset of the last week.  I finished Abigail a few weeks back and went to go and look for it because next week I get to start week 1 of 3 of my tatting class.  Abigail is gone MIA.  I am extremely upset as she was not perfect but she was the first thing that I made and was very proud of.  I will continue to look for her as I want to show her off next week.

I did start a second Abigail how ever she ended up frogged.  She is currently sitting on my bedside table waiting to be added to the tatting scrapbook.  :(

I have finished my tatted bookmark that I blogged about back on 2/10.  I will post a picture later today.  It was simple on the first side and then when I got to the end and started the second side it gave me a little trouble but I got it all worked out.  This marks my second completed project.  Still a bunch to improve on but its getting there.

On 2/13 I began to blog about working on Angels in the Snow pattern.  Well I had to frog the first one and will post that picture then.  I marked the shuttles as to 1 and 2 but was having difficulties with the pattern.  I enlisted the help of a dear friend Wanda and she was so kind to write out directions as well as take step by step tatted pictures.

I got brave and decided to attempt the pattern a second time.  I guess the second time was a charm thus far.  I am still working on the pattern and its is looking good for my third tatted project.  this time I used 2 different color threads to help me understand the pattern better.  I have plans to make a solid color one once this one is done.  I have just about half way around on it now.  I still have a bunch to learn but I am excited to finish it before my Tatting Class next Tuesday.

Last night my son came up with this idea that he wants 300 tatted items snowflakes, hearts, butterfly's and so on.  Well the tried to tell him that this would take me a life time as I don't tat that fast and and very new.  I disappointed him and feel bad that I did.  I have to find a way to make him happy again.  Any ideas anyone?  Maybe I should check his hiding spots and see if he is the one who took Abigail.   

Abigail

Well I started my First Tatting project on Sunday 1/30/2011.  I was very happy with my progress thus far.  After only having 1 Tatting lesson.  For the next several days I was looking all over Blogs to Figure out the next stitch group that I had to do.  I decided to get some other thread out and give it a shot before I did the "real thing" and well it just didn't want to work.  I decided at that point to put on my big girl pants and give it my best.  I was so excited I got it on the first try :)  Yeah for me.  So I continued to work on it for the next several days as time allowed.  As I am not a big sports fan I decided that Super Bowl Sunday was going to be the day that I finshed Abigail.  With my head held high I showed my family and they liked it.  I began to email and text message everyone that I finshed my first project!  I got a lot of good jobs, way to go, thats amazing, wow.  I am going to share this with the cyber world, please everyone I have a lot more to learn and things to improve on. 

I had emailed Fox and shared the picture of my tatted project.  She had very kinds words to say about my project.  She asked to share my story and picture on her blog as well and I agreed.  I was able to read the kind comments that people left on her blog.  The Color that I used was Handy Hands - 130 - Island Breeze.    Thank you all for your kinds words.  

Here is my second attempt at Abigail since I finshed the last one on Sunday.  I am using Lizbeth Size 20 thread, from Handy Hands as my bank book is going broke from ordering all kinds of yummy threads from there.  The color is 119 - Jelly Bean.