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06-16-2017, 09:13 PM | #1 | |||
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Awesome! It sounds like you have found your new/renewed hobbies. You will have to take pictures as the project progresses and post them here for us to see.
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07-16-2017, 10:07 AM | #2 | |||
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07-16-2017, 11:08 AM | #3 | |||
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I've done needle tatting too!! I even still have my tatting needles!
I bought a needle tatting book back in the very late 90's. Taught myself how to do it, tatted for a few months until I got bored with it. It did always look like single crochet stitches to me. I looked, and found a crochet pattern book/leaflet that had patterns with a "tatted look" for doilies. They were all single crochet stitches. I think I have the book/leaflet around here somewhere.
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07-16-2017, 03:52 PM | #4 | ||
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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.
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07-21-2017, 12:28 AM | #5 | ||
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Finished my card trick quilt blocks for my aunts sampler quilt. Only 4 types of blocks left to do and then I need to figure out where I can lay out a queen size quilt to figure out how they'll all go together
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08-26-2017, 12:34 PM | #6 | |||
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I've had problems with my hands and eyesight for years. I used to try quilting, and I made 3 quilts as well as some smaller quilted things. The quilt I'm still using is the LeMoyne Star pattern, using lots of those 8-pointed stars as in your photo. I got books on quilting from the library and took extensive notes, collected patterns, watched TV shows (I liked Georgia Bonesteel), waded through catalogs.
I can't do quilts any more. I also used to make needlepoint/bargello/counted cross stitch/crewel pillows. I gave pillows as gifts to people so often that they probably got tired of them but it was gratifying to see photos of my sister in her home with one of my pillows in use on her sofa. Lately I've been doing crocheting. For years I made afghans for people as gifts, and now I'm doing mainly hats, sometimes scarfs, which get donated to a program for the homeless. This kind of project is nice because I can do them at my own pace--no deadlines to meet--and usually I don't have to pay for the yarn. One finger won't bend right on my dominant hand, and the others are bent out of shape with arthritis, but I can still crochet. I'm probably slower than most people but so what? I get patterns from the Internet, and I can find YouTube videos illustrating how to solve problems I'm having. I can usually keep an eye on a DVD movie while crocheting. I even have a styrofoam head model for shaping the hats. That was something someone else was giving away. So this is a relaxing way to spend the time while turning out something attractive and useful. I have fun choosing the colors and patterns. I used to knit but somehow working that much with both hands and arms is much more tiring. I hope you'll join the trivia game kicker mentioned.
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