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Wet weather fairs

Okay it has been a while since I posted anything here. I made the big step and paid up the big bucks for market stall insurance. OUCH! So have every Sunday whenever I had booked into a market down would come the rain. Considering  several of the markets make you prepay this has been an expensive experience. So far one stall I had to pack up completely  due to high wind, have  been rained out on 2 and went to 2 miserable raining all day markets. And guess what the weather prediction for this Sunday is. Yes more rain. And they call this summer!

The case of the Vanishing Tatting time

Otherwise known as .' Its Christmas Time EEEEEEEK!" I think everyone knows how crazy it is at this time of year. Work is crazy shopping is crazy and traffic is crazy and every specialist tries to fit you in before christmas so that they can go on their ever so lovely extended Chrissy breaks. So I suppose its not suprising that my tatting Time is disappearing. In fact its gone entirely and Im currently stealing time from housework. What! I dont see a problem with that. Do you?

I Have finished a few things . These are the tatted  footlets or wristlets which can be worn as either. Made from a basic 6 sided flower pattern joined together it makes a nice firm lace with josephine chain around the finger / toe. I just wish I had a handy foot hand model instead of having to use my hobbit feet.. Well time to fly Byee!

New tatted Heart

Seriously, this was going to take 20 seconds. Get on line mini blog and post picture of new heart I created. Not to be. I don't know if the lines are super slow today or if my picture is too large or wrong format but it's just not happening. So a quick description. Started with middle of vintage doily   ( flower like) and then ran amok with the tatting needle. Its actually quite basic and looks like so many other heart patterns but it's mine.  All mine Mwahahahah. . Anyway I will try this all again hopefully tomorrow.

Finding the little good things.

Sometimes something good will come out of the silliest things. I hurt my knee at work yesterday and was sitting here at home  whining about it. Something along the line of  how typical that this looks like being the first good weekend in quite a while and Ive turned into a one legged pirate. Anyway I suddenly thought what am I whining about I am AT HOME and I can sit on the computer AND ice my knee at the same time. Yay! And then one link followed to another and I found some really inspirational blogs and tutorials . Double Yay!

DONT LET THE DOG KISS YOU

It is like this. I've had these on going headaches and haven't paid enough attention to anyone let alone the animals so now they are being frisky and and a bit naughty. The cat keeps catching mice and bringing them in for the dogs to hunt and Daisy is very good at it. Luckily they don't get dismembered just licked and sucked on a lot. Thus the mouse breathe!

Tatting wise I have used Totus Mels scarf pattern as a basis for a scarf in thick crochet cotton, that way I don't have to actually think or focus on the pattern.  I have lots of ideas but want to wait until my brain is actually working. Second thought that may be forever so instead make that soon as the  headaches vamoose. Hope fully very soon.

Ahem ! Ahem! Look at me I actually sold something!

Yesterday I took my first BIG step into the world of commerce. I put up a stall at a local handcraft market at Pyree and put all my tatting on sale for the first time ever. It was scary as anything because I didn't know if people would actually like my work. With my mood ranging from super hopeful to 'OMG what am I doing I won't sell a thing' I set up my stall. Panic!. But then the people arrived. First the other stall owners cruised over for a look to see what this needle tatting was and then all the shoppers. It was the perfect day the weather held and there was lots of people. I sold my first 3 pieces in the first half hour and I could have gone home then an there I was so happy at having an actual sale. All in all the day was a huge success and I sold LOTS!!!!!!!! Funnily things that I thought would sell didn't and things like the bracelet made from one of my not so nice hand dyed thread experiments did sell. I couldn't believe that.

In reality profit margin wise I probably made about $5 all up but as we tat for the love of it not the money that's okay. And anything that means I can go out and buy more thread and beads is good.

People were so interested in what needle tatting was  and you would have thought that Georgia at the Online tatting class had me on on commission I wrote down her details so often. Also Crochet Australia, Handy Hands, Lizbeth Thread and Barbara Foster should all expect a surge in sales.  I have offered to meet a couple of ladies to show them 'how' over coffee and you never know they might actually ring.

Today I have to try and sort out the post apocalypse disaster that is my beads and fittings and threads

Ps Pictures would have good but we were so busy we forgot.