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.

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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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.

Still quilting away, well I was before tearing my shoulder, if it wasn't for my mother cutting the quilts out there'd be no way I could do it, but with pre-cut and simply running the material through the machine it's something I can still handle at least once I get back my right arm again. Kinda bites since we have 10 quilts we're trying to finish by Christmas and this injury is really setting us back along with my dad's appointments and looming surgeries for me as well. 4 of the 5 quilts are mostly finished (blocks are done just need sewn together, quilted and backing), 3 more are at least halfway to that point and the last 2 haven't been cut yet and we're already headed rapidly to September . Which also means surgeries need to be done soon before insurance rolls over.

It's been a terrible year and I would kill for it to be over and done with, but at the same time I have so many things that need to get done and many more I would like to get done that while I'm praying for the year to end and be done with I'm also praying for 72 hours in each day until the year is over lol

I've been crocheting. I'd show you pictures, but stupid photobucket decided they wanted actual money (and a lot of it) to allow people to keep using their site. I don't have the money for that (I read somewhere it's $400+ to subscribe).

Anyways, back to my crocheting.

I've been making a lot of scarves for some reason. I've been using the same stitch pattern for all of them. I've only been actually IN the yarn store a couple of times (Joann's Craft's). I ordered a bunch of yarn online (also from Joann's Craft's) awhile back. I probably over-ordered it. I bought about 10 skeins of a new Red Heart yarn color. They came out with a bunch of self striping colors. I probably could have gotten away with just a couple of skeins, but I tend to over buy yarn.

When I had actually visited the store a couple of times, I got another color in the self striping yarn, and a ball of yarn from another brand. So, I've probably got two scarves finished, and another 3 in progress. (I get bored fast sometimes).

I seem to be either having some sort of horrible flare, or the Ampyra that I started a week or so ago is making me sick. (literally, sick to my stomach). So, my crocheting has kind of taken a hit from that.

My mother is sick, and has been in the hospital, and now a rehab place. So, I'm home alone (my dad died in April). If I wasn't so queasy and weak from the Ampyra, I'd probably be getting more crocheting done.

Erin, you've had a rugged time. It's sad that your father died and now your mother's ill--and you're not doing well either.

I hope better times will soon be ahead for you.

Yes, Photobucket has really messed things up for its users by deciding to charge. I believe you can still store photos there but if you want to use them anywhere else on the Internet, it's $400/year. I've been looking into tinypic as an alternative.

Starznight, having to finish 10 quilts by Christmas is mind-boggling. It's good to know your mother is helping. Maybe others could be enlisted as well?

I did finally get to see my shiny brand new neuro last month, and earlier this month. He seems pretty nice. Gave me a Rx to Amprya. Is about to get me going on tysabri (little nervous about that). The Ampyra doesn't seem to be doing a thing for me, except make me nauseous.

Hopefully when I start the tysabri it will go ok. Not sure when that's going to start, or how I'm going to pay for it in 2018. I plan to carry along some crochet projects when I go get the tysabri infusion. Hopefully it's not too much different than an IVSM infusion.

I was excited to hear that this neuro will Rx LDN. Hope he writes that Rx soon. I just don't expect all that much out of it either, since everything else I've taken for the ms I haven't exactly tolerated.

going to look and see if my old Flickr account is still good, and if it'll allow me to link pictures still. If it does, I might be transferring all my pictures from photobucket over to it. I need a place to put a lot of my crochet pictures that are linked to a crochet site from photobucket. When photobucket flipped the switch on the hotlinking, they broke all my links to my pictures.

and just as I was thinking about photobucket, I realized I should go check my crochet blog I've had for the better part of a decade (and haven't looked at in two years)...where I have two crochet patterns posted. Of course, now I have to find my images, organize my images in the correct order, and repost the pattern. Ugh! So irritating! Apparently my pattern is popular on a crochet site I'm a member of. Hope I don't have to re-shoot the pictures.

Yeah I might have to enlist the help of the DH ( shocking he can sew as well if not better than me, his mama taught him well). We were going to have my aunt's help but she broke her arm a few months back and it still hasn't healed right she goes tomorrow to discuss treatment options now (surgical options is what her doctor believes it will be) so she's been out almost as soon as we started the project and shows no signs of being able to help unless it's packing the quilts and getting them to the post office.

Though this Thursday she wants to come over and see if she can do anything at all to help, even if it's just lining up the squares for us and trimming threads. Even if it's just that much with 10 quilts in various states of finishing, it will be a huge help.

Starznight, I like the card trick block in your photo. The colors seem to work very effectively. Good luck with that sampler quilt!

The blocks are actually all sewn now for the sampler quilt, all that's left is quilting and arranging them together and then getting the backing on 😊. Seems like I have a lot done since 4 of the 8 quilts are to that point, but having 6 more to go and a whole lot of quilting to do makes it seem like I haven't done anything at all at the same time lol. And now I'm getting my GB for a week come Tuesday, the same day my dad gets his cataract surgery done (the first one of potentially many) but as her room has been converted to my sewing room, it means for a week longer now nothing will get done on the quilts.

Really a few more days than that since we're making her a kangaroo kurigimi (like a onesie costume/pj deal) a couple of jumpers and hopefully finish up her bean bag "chair" for her belated birthday presents 😝. Hard to believe she's 4 years old already 😳 I might even toss in a few petal skirts for her too, haven't quite decided and we may still sew some while she's here since she loves to watch Gigi and nama make things (likely because it's almost always something for her lol spoiled little one that she is)