Yeah I'm not sure that tatting will be a long term craft for me... there's no real challenge to it, and I'm not the sort that has dollies scattered about my house . But I did see a really cool shawl that was completely tatted, and I could see doing a bit of tatted lace around the hem of my kitchen curtains and table cloth. But really that's about all I can think of... wearing jewelry bothers me, part MS nerve issues but mostly ADHD, I can't stop fiddling with any jewelry.

I have a permenent scar on where my wedding band used to sit from spinning it constantly on my finger till I had to get rid of it after slicing/burning through flesh with the obsessive spinning. I end up doing the same thing to the back of my neck with necklaces, I've torn my ears with earring from constantly playing with them, and we don't even want to talk about bracelets. I once played ring toss with some bangle bracelets through my education class and it so happened to be the day we were having a lecture on ADHD Halfway through the lecture I was named "exhibit A".

So making jewelry is a little out.. I might make a bracelet or two for practice but won't be cranking them out. But hey I'll certainly have something to do while recovering from getting my baclofen pump. And something to do when I go in for the trial on the 25th... going to be stuck at the hospital most of the day, never fun. Now I could go a little bit more crazy if I can get down the Venetian lace technique that combines fabric scraps and tatting, just so far the directions I've found for it were written over a hundred years ago and they certainly expect a higher level of "familiarity" with old techniques than I currently possess. But hey learn through trial and error, just like the old days lol, the three F's rule... if you can't fix it, force it, if you can't force it **** (i mean "fake") it

And I suppose I should say imitation Venetian lace using fabric scraps with tatting. 1860's technique from Great Britain.