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Monday, January 14, 2013

Missed opportunity....

Have you ever had one of those days when you find something that you really want. You try to get it but then something happens and you can't get it. Well, I found a wonderful set of 13 detach-a-spool shuttles on eBay. However, someone is more willing to pay far higher than I for those shuttles. I find them a dream to work with. I hope that the person who wins the bid will treat them with kindness and use them every day. I had great plans for them in my mind with all of the projects that I have planned out for this coming year.


My house is very empty now with the kids in many different directions. My daughter has gone back to school for the semester  My middle son is finally re-united with his family at their first duty stating in Nebraska. The oldest son has been gone since summer to Japan with his wonderful family. So the house contains just me and my hubby now.

Gone is my excuse to put off cleaning up the house because no one is there to interrupt. I am planning on learning some new things this year in tatting. I want to extend my tatting skills by adding beads to my work. There will be beads on the picots first and some sewn on in various locations to begin with. After I am comfortable with that I will slowly begin adding simple beads to the tatted part of my work. I have always been reluctant to load my threads with beads as some seem to do. As beautiful as their work is, the tatting gets lost in all of the bead work done. I want to take the time to make sure that the balance between bead and tatting works for me before I call it done.

 So with my physical therapy out of the way until Thursday, here I go jumping into cleaning the house and finding my corner for doing my tatting in again. Oh, I do want to find a warmer corner to do it in for a while. The chair by the front window has become way too cold with the winter chill that is around here right now. I am afraid that if I bundle up I would really lose my stuff in my wrappings. LOL

 Well that is all from me for now.

 Happy Tatting

 Arial - the Tattered Faerie
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  1. LadytatsJanuary 15, 2013 at 5:52 PM

    I love detach-a-spools, I have several, and that is the shuttle I was taught on by my grandmother. I have replaced all the original bobbins with sewing bobbins, that eliminates the black mark if your thread happens to slip between it and the shuttle.
    better luck next time.

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    1. UnknownJanuary 16, 2013 at 5:07 PM

      I am sure that I will win other auctions. It would have been nice to win that one with such a large collection all at once. Right now I only have two and have replaced the metal bobbins with the appropriate size plastic sewing bobbins. Seems I have a preference for metal shuttles especially the detach-a-spools. :D

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