Back to school

Christmas break is over, and it was back to school today. It felt to be moving around. I've spent way too much time sitting over the past two weeks!

I finished off the cross stitch piece for Ashley today. It looks more square in person. This was one of those times when I just couldn't get a good picture. I can't wait for Ashley to see it!

I only managed to tat one Ice Drop today. I think I may try an extra row of chains tomorrow. I spent some time organizing shuttles and found that I had quite a few of Rita Richmond's shuttles that didn't have thread on them. I need to remedy that!

Doodle variation

I decided to tat the variation of the Doodle Ice Drop today. It's merely an extra row of chains, and I changed the picot cluster from three to five. I think I'll tat this one in several colors. I think it's appropriate that I used one of my Ice Drop Addicts shuttles!

One of the high school girls I see every day is very artistic. She gave me one of her doodles to cross stitch. Before tatting, I was a prolific cross stitcher. However, I haven't touched counted cross stitch in  years. My interpretation falls short, but I think Ashley will like it. I plan to finish it off as an ornament tomorrow. This was fun to do, but I think my days of spending hours doing cross stitch are over!