Yarnification

I don’t have a photo—it’s just a little bit of a thing and I know from experience that this camera doesn’t like to photograph anything this small—but I have successfully done a tiny piece of tatting. A whole ring, with all the stitches ending up on the right thread so I could close the ring! The picots are a little wonky (what is up with me and picots? Even though they’re totally different than crochet ones, it seems like picots are just plaguing me lately!). I definitely need to figure out how to get them to come out the same size.

But the stitches themselves are fairly neat, and I only had to pick apart and redo one stitch that ended up on the wrong thread. I’m very happy about this. Now to get some more practice and learn to do chains and things and then hunt down some beginner patterns…

It’s hard to believe I finally managed it after how much trouble I had in the beginning. Especially considering I hadn’t touched it at all in weeks. Maybe that’s what I needed, just to leave it alone for a while and let the information soak into my brain, because I picked up the shuttle and just made this little ring without even looking at the instructions again.

In other news: Cat should be coming home today (fingers crossed!) but I don’t know for sure yet since the vet was out for lunch (as opposed to out to lunch, which would be a bad thing) when I called. I’m supposed to call back shortly and find out more.