Tatting!

 I haven't touched my tatting shuttles for weeks - feels like forever!  Sometimes the rest of it begins to feel like a job.  I'm knitting for other people and I'm spinning for other people and there are deadlines and commitments and it just sometimes loses the fun factor.  Don't get me wrong - I love doing it and I won't stop.  When someone pays for the supplies so I can have fun doing what I enjoy, that's a good thing.  If I'm getting paid for doing what I love, so much the better.  The theater department doesn't pay, but volunteering is part of being a parent and I do that with love and joy.  It's the deadlines and feeling like I can't just do whichever bit of tatting or knitting or spinning strikes my fancy that gets a little wearing.

So, here today is some tatting - I had been wanting to tat this for weeks and finally got a minute to do it (ok, took a minute, still have theater knitting and have a Monday spinning deadline).  This is Abigail by Fox of tat-ology.  It's a lovely little pattern that was a joy to tat.  The thread is Yarnplayer's hdt Garden Afternoon in size 10 Cordonet.  Using size ten made this a rather large motif  (close to 6" from end to end) - almost big enough to use as a glass mat which is lovely because I like to set tatted pieces under everything else on wood furniture.