I must be crazy!!!!

Good old Dr vonthreadmore found out that I didn't intended on bringing any of her thread with me to ShuttleBirds.

She's been having a fit for days now.....

If you don't hear from me before shuttlebirds.....you'll know why.  I will be up to my elbows in dye an thread for the next week at least.

If I do have a spare moment I will update you all with a post about the wonderful surprises I have gotten from some dear tatting friends.

Update

Greetings all, from the land of ick, misery, and the shoulda got my flu shot blues. Hubby came down with it on MLK day last week, and I fell prey on Friday. I can't remeber the last time I was sick enough to warrant Nyquil, but I've definitely needed help getting some Z's. Enough moaning and groaning for now, on to brighter things.

Sweet Pea earrings by Krystledawne on ETSY

These are a repeat of one of the very first pairs of earrings i listed on ETSY... almost two years ago. It is this design that I will be using to teach how to do stitches over a cabone ring at Shuttlebirds. I am offering the kit with earring findings, or a metal hook bookmark finding, so my students can choose to finish either one or two of the motifs.

Shuttlebirds is bound to be exciting this year, (even though I am scheduled to teach during the same time as ALL of the classes I was hoping to take myself!!) If you will be near Eastern Washington this coming April, I hope you will check out the Shuttlebirds website and take a look at all the fun we plan on having this year. You surely don't want to miss it!

Now I am off to wallow in my sorrows and drown them in cough syrup..... with a good helping of Mary Poppins on the side. After all, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down!

Gotatsic

I love inventing new phrases, coining new terms, etc. Here is my newest contribution to tatting lingo-

Gotatsic.

What does it mean you ask? Well? I'm not sure yet... And I can't claim full credit for it's invention either. This word came into being from the "captcha" while I was commentingon Jane's blog this morning, and I was so befuzzled and excited to see a word with "tat" in it! So, I think we must claim it as our own. Perhaps I will post a poll so we can determing the meaning of this new term! We could start saying things like, "My, that Doily is quite gotatsic." or "Gotatsicly speaking, I prefer size 20 thread." The possibilities are endless!

Maybe gotatsic could describe something about the picture you see below.

This is the result of my entering into the speed tatting contest at Shuttlebirds. The pattern is for a little turtle that turned out to be a bear to tat at speed. The ring for the body is so large and hard to close, I think we went for ten minutes to see who could do the most. Jessica Spaulding won with 6+ turtles completed. I tied for second with 4+. We all implored them to choose a pattern with smaller rings for next years contest......and I informed Jessica that she had better watch out next year because it's on like donkey kong.....

Anyway, that was a rather gotatsic event. or, maybe the result is gotatsic. Or, maybe gotatsic is the new name for feeling the need to finish a WIP (work in progress) or to design something new.....or maybe we feel gotatsic when we are doing something else and we'd much rather be tatting!

Anyway, I'll have a poll up shortly, so give me your input on this most auspicious occasion of new word invention!

....still more shuttlebirds!

I'll bet you thought I'd be showing all my goodies in this next post......

Nope!

But I do have more fun pictures. These show some of the general splendor of the event.

This is the auditorium where the main portion of the event is held. from this view, you can see the entrance on the left, directly out in front are the round tables where we had meals. To either side and behind are the vendors. I've never seen so much tatting gear in one place before...... If you couldn't find me during a meal I was sure to be found trolling the tables of thread and goodies.


Here you can see a table of books from Snowgoose. Many titles to choose from..... I did take home a few, surprisingly they were not the ones I thought I had wanted! Having a chance to browse a book before purchasing is not an option available to us very often, and I found myself surprised by some titles that I hadn't considered, and equally surprised by some of the ones I'd been longing for that did not turn out to be all that interesting.

OOooooh. The Lizbeth of it all. Again, snowgoose. You should have seen his Impressive display. He (can't remember his name) is carrying on the business since his wife's passing. He said that it made him feel close to his wife being back at the tatting events. And the great thing is, he knows everything about every item he sells...... and doesn't tat a stitch as far as I know.

Edited to add: His name is Pete, and indeed he does know tatting! Thanks Mimi!

Some of the lovelies on display. Barbara, one of my travel companions, was particularly enamored with the little beaded bags done by Patty Duff.

This is one of the doilies I mentioned that from a distance looks like crochet. She had done some beautiful pineapples, and we talked with her about coming out to our guild and doing a class. Our lace guild here is mostly bobbin lacers, and they are bringing in two or three teachers this year, so I'm going to petition for a tatting class.

Again, yes there is More to come! Loot next I promise. Really.

And there will be even more pictures to come, at next months guild I should be able to obtain a disk of the pictures that the "official" photographer took all weekend.

Nighty night!