Tollway Tatters

 

We had a wonderful Tollway Tatters meeting yesterday, with tatters from Canada, New York, Virginia, California, Michigan, and Illinois. I am so grateful to my friend Sue who coordinates our monthly Zoom meetings. Without her, our group would have fizzled out with the pandemic. When Sue Anna and I started the group way back in 2011, neither one of us imagined that we would connect with tatters from so far away on a regular basis. While nothing compares to meeting in person, this is the next best thing!

While chatting, I managed to finish the first round of my Concentric Rectangles doily. During the meeting, we were talking about Rita Richmond's newest shuttles (Shuttle by Design). Our conversation reminded me that I hadn't checked the mail in a couple of days. So, after lunch I did a mail check and there were my beautiful new shuttles!

Middle school students will be performing Alice in Wonderland in two weeks, and there will be a raffle fundraiser. The raffles have been great fun, and they've raised much needed funds for the drama club. My bejeweled trees seem to be well received, so this one will be my contribution to the raffle.

Now I need to decide what to make for Mean Green Goes Pink night!

False start

I started a new bookmark today, but something was wrong and I couldn't figure it out. So, I snipped the threads and took a break.

It wound up being a very long break, because I decided to decorate another tree. This one took about six and a half hours to make. Time sure flies when you're having fun!

When I returned to the bookmark pattern, I realized that I was joining in a place I didn't need to join. Now I can move on! The pattern? "Asymmetry" from Four Dozen Tatted Bookmarks by Robin Perfetti. The shuttle is from Grizzly Mountain Arts. I love tatting with beautiful shuttles!

O Christmas tree!

I finished Kara's Christmas tree, and I think she will love it. Kara is a big Grinch fan, so she has a Grinch charm bracelet as a background swirl for her tree. I think she will have fun looking for all of the charms!

Change of pace

 

It was too cold to concentrate on much of anything yesterday, so I decided to stick pins in a cone. Haha! They are lovely pins! My first Christmas gift for next year is finished, and I have the supplies to keep going. I just might get started on another one today.

When the weather is cold, and it is brutally cold here, I get the urge to work with yarn. Daughter Andrea has finished to crocheted afghans since school started, and once we started talking about afghan patterns, all sorts of ads started popping up in my Facebook feed. I rarely follow the links in a Facebook ad, but if something interests me I do go searching for it.

This pattern came up in one of those ads. The pattern is Blanket No. 18 Crochet Pattern. I was able to find it on Etsy for less than the Facebook ad. I love the textured patterns, and so far the pattern has been very easy to follow. I had bought the yarn for a different afghan project a couple of years ago. When the yarn arrived, I decided I didn't want to make that pattern. Sometimes it's fun to change things up!