I was doing so well with round 13 of Renulek's Spring Doily 2025, until today. I had a couple of days when I wasn't feeling the best, so I didn't work on the doily. Today I felt ready to proceed, and I did proceed with confidence... until I reached then end of the 7th pattern repeat. It just didn't line up.
I kept looking to see what I had done wrong. It took me about five minutes to realize that I had joined to a chain instead of the base of the last floral motif. I could have cut the thread and re-tatted, but I didn't want to take the chance that I'd run out of thread. So, I spent four and a half hours un-tatting. It wasn't truly four and half hours. I did go out to pick up a prescription, and Mom and I stopped at the grocery store for a few items. Still, it was four and half hours from when I identified the problem to when I was satisfied that I had joined correctly.
I think I'll stop for today. I don't want to risk making another mistake!
My sister Janet is down visiting for the weekend. Recently, we had talked about adding tatting to our bejeweled trees. While I wasn't feeling up to following a pattern over the past couple of days, I did a little doodle tatting around knitting stitch markers.
I like the doodling you were doing with the stitch markers Diane. They look fun and lovely bright colours too.
ReplyDeleteI like your doodles too. Isn’t it a drawback that untatting takes so much longer than tatting? Well done for getting it done though. A mistake like that can be paralysing.
ReplyDeleteI like your doodling! The bright colors will add to your trees.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the hardest thing about designing tatting, is figuring out where to start. Using stitch markers and findings to create tatted doodles is a great way to overcome that issue.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got your doily fixed!! :)
ReplyDeleteYou always seem to do really well tatting around something or just doodle tatting!!! :)