where Am I ?!

I'm kind of mired, pleasantly so, in a lot of WIPs! The web of WIPs has me snared in such a maze, that I wonder where I am at !

Let's see if listing what I remember will create some sort of organisation in thought & prioritisation in action..... may be you can pick what you want to see first ?

Common Threads series

• Common threads III - all pics taken long back.  Needs to be textualized & pics notated.
• Common threads IV - wanted to take different route, by tatting a collage using all similar techniques in that composition.  Tatted this tiny grape bunch below, but pics revealed bare thread :-( Need to restart.

2016 Snowflake Challenge

• Day 7 needs to be written, pics notated, and posted.
• Day 18 in progress.
• 14 completed, 1 WIP, 9 to tat with 3 months remaining.

Bookmarks

• One free-styling bookmark completed long back, which I hate for many reasons.
• One bookmark almost at end, tatted mainly to use up various practice pieces. Want to snip off the last segment & tat with finer thread.
• One bookmark on filet tatting needs to be restarted, using size 40 thread this time.
• One bookmark in ideation stage – for a book I recently read (design based on the book).
• Latest bookmark started - love how it will probably turn out. An extension of a dear friend's motif. Have made drawing, then cutouts to ensure correct placement & attachment. This is how far I've reached ....

Books I've read

• Want to share some enjoyable books I've read this year - many are direct or indirect recommendations of dear online friends. Lots in my thoughts, but how do I find the time to write a post ?!
• Also need to take pics of last read novel & the short stories I am currently reading.

More tatting & posting

• Floral Fantasy Doily – shelved for the present … need to work out the last round to include my placement of colours.
• Snow Doily – final rounds to write about & choose pics (there are so many !) to post.
• Nina Libin’s gorgeous earrings. I intend to tat them again to do a better job, hence held off on posting
• Experiments with filled-in rings, picots, etc. etc. Can’t even remember all of them :-(
• Many more snowflakes tatted last season, including a by Teri, Wanda, Amanda, but not happy with some of them.
• Joins in Shuttle Tatting Series – collected all info & material but need to tat samplers for the Part III & organize the text.
• Many blog post ideas yet to see the light of day.

My tatting patterns

• Want to share a beaded bracelet pattern. Models & pdf ready. Need to work on blog post. It was part of the goodie bag at Palmetto Tat Days (thanks for this opportunity, Georgia)
• A new snowflake pattern – designed on Inkscape. Tatted round 1 & hope to tat second round tonight. Happy with it so far.
• An edging (designed in mid-2014!) that can perhaps be converted into a rectangular doily. Did a very small initial trial, but haven't worked on it further.

Inkscape & 2D tatting designing

On a more positive note (a major culprit of my recent distractions) ...

I've gotten pretty good and quick with Inkscape diagramming over the past few weeks! I've discovered & devised many shortcuts for myself! A real silver lining, coz this has helped me break my glass ceiling for regular 2D tatting ! These are still simple patterns but hope to gradually progress to larger &/or more complex designs.

Here’s how it went …

My next post was to be a diagrammatic compilation of the direction that tatting takes in different situations (a tongue-twister that !). As it developed, I decided to include ‘play-sheet’ which comprised of commonly encountered motifs in doilies, etc.

As I got more proficient with drawing, many new patterns emerged including a heart, edging, medallions, and the WIP snowflake. Just in time, too, for snowflake season !

I am now confident of converting many of my tutorials/patterns into diagrams over the next year !!!

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Above are my more 'recent' WIPs – ones I can remember right away. (I’m sure to find a great many more if I scroll through my albums & files). Others include posts about my

• Memory Afghan (crochet) &
• Legwarmers for my MIL (knitting) & tons of older stuff.
• And not to mention the monthly Pinterest Challenge – still haven’t gotten around to doing anything this month !

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I realise how dreary & unexciting this laundry-list sounds. But we've all been there, and know that you will empathise. Lots to write but not much to write home about :-(

Hopefully this list will give me the motivation to strike them off the list. Notice that I haven’t included any of the want-to-tat inspirations that you talented bloggers keep posting ;-) So the quicker I shorten the above list, faster I can start new projects, yay! 

happy tatting always :-)

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